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“do not confuse self-love with thinking that you’re better than everyone else true self-love is accepting yourself for all that you are, especially the darkest parts”
― Yung Pueblo, Inward

“It is to everyone's benefit to build a more compassionate world, because when fewer people are hurting, everyone is safer and there is more victory, celebration, and joy.”
― Yung Pueblo, Lighter: Let Go of the Past, Connect With the Present, and Expand the Future

“(Feminist woman) is too concerned with trying to be man's equal, and so discounts all differences, physiological as well as psychological. She never depreciates man, for her aim is to be like a man, equal to a man, no whit his inferior. She no longer has any standpoint for criticism for him, because she has sold her birthright, her feminine inheritance, her uniqueness, by cancelling the difference arising from the fact that she is female.”
― Mary Esther Harding, The Way of All Women

“Love is also a force of light and nurture that liberates you to inhabit to the full your own difference. There should be no imitation of each other; no need to be defensive or protective in each other’s presence. Love should encourage and free you fully into your full potential.”
― John O'Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom