Day 189

Day 189

Miss me? :)

Day 188

Day 188

"It doesn't make sense to call ourselves ugly, because we don't really see ourselves. We don't watch ourselves sleeping in bed, curled up and silent with chests rising and falling with our own rhythm. We don't see ourselves reading a book, eyes fluttering and glowing. You don't see yourself looking at someone with love and care inside your heart. There's no mirror in your way when you're laughing and smiling and happiness is leaking out of you. You would know exactly how bright and beautiful you are if you saw yourself in the moments where you are truly yourself."

Day 187

Day 187

“Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit” 
~ E.E. Cummings

Day 186

Day 186

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time."

~Anna Freud

Day 185

Day 185

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy"

~Norman Vincent Peale

Day 184

Day 184

"Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?"

~Brigham Young

Day 183

Day 183

I am convinced all of humanity is born with more gifts than we know. Most are born geniuses and just get de-geniused rapidly

~Buckminster Fuller

Day 182

Day 182

"It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others."
~Sidney J. Harris

Day 181

Day 181

“All the external adoration, respect and adulation in the word, can't drown out the internal voices that tell us, we are not good enough and unworthy of; happiness, love and an abundant life. When we need others to tell us were amazing, worthy and lovable, in order to feel good about ourselves, it is never enough. It goes into the bottomless pit where our inherent self-worth should be. It may feel like we are reaching out to receive love, but in actuality, we are seeking external noise to help drown out our negative core beliefs.

Love blossoms from the inside out. That is why it is so important to do the work necessary to heal our emotional wounds, to love ourselves and stand strong in who we are. Only then, are we truly free to give and receive love, unconditionally and in abundance.” 
― Jaeda DeWalt

Day 180

Day 180

“There's something AMAZING about you. You owe it to yourself to fulfill your destiny. You were put on earth for a reason. Don't betray yourself because of other people opinions of who you should be. God has already implanted within you who you MEANT to be. Trust your gut instincts.” 
~ Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried: A Memoir

Day 179

Day 179

“Try giving up all the thoughts that make you feel bad, or even just some of them, and see how doing that changes your life. You don't need negative thoughts. All they have ever given you was a false self that suffers. They are all lies.” 
― Gina Lake, What about Now?: Reminders for Being in the Moment

Day 178

Day 178

"Don't start your day with the broken pieces of yesterday. Every morning we wake up is the first day of the rest of our life"

Day 177

Day 177

"Accept everything about yourself, I mean everything. You are you and that is the beginning and the end, no apologies, no regrets."
~Clark Moustakas

Day 176

Day 176

"When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't"

~ Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart

Day 175

Day 175

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself"

~Harvey Fierstein

Day 174

Day 174

"There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward: an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore"

~Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls

Day 173

Day 173

"That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretense. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession"
~Jim Morrison

Day 172

Day 172

"Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth"

~Iyanla Vanzant

Day 171

Day 171

"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection"

~Gautama Buddha

I'm so excited that I got my hair done today. I love the color and the cut. Its so much fun. 

Day 170

Day 170

"How would your life be different if...you stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinion? Let today be the day...You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others"

~Steve Maraboli "Life, the Truth, and Being Free"