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“True inner knowing is a state that brings about a conscious self-love. This is self-awareness and knowledge of the soul and our purpose. Often it is difficult to achieve a higher knowledge because a variety of obstacles block our understanding of self: internal and external conflict, fear, and behavior. Overcoming obstacles is possible but there must be a
conscious choice for self-love instead of agreeing with conditioned beliefs. Our selves are our souls and the power of knowing opens us up to self-love.”
― Adeline Bird, Be Unapologetically You: A Self Love Guide for Women of Color

“Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and can equally tolerate the onslaughts of distress and happiness is certainly a person eligible for liberation.”
― A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, The Bhagavad-gita

“I was scared, of course. But I was also scared to go into the military, and I did it. I was scared to go to Saudi Arabia, but I did it. I was scared to get out of the military, but I did it. I stuffed my fear where I always do, deep in the bowels of my belly beneath the mountains of mint chocolate chip ice cream I’d consumed, and carried on. Maybe I was being a stupid little dreamer, but I knew I had to be that girl who tried. I was more scared of dying without trying to give my dreams a shot, than being that person who lived until her one-hundredth birthday without”
― Rhonda Eason, To Hair and Back: My Journey Toward Self-Love One Strand at a Time

“We just have to focus on what choices we have in front of us, not the ones behind.”
― Jayne Allen, Black Girls Must Die Exhausted