- “Don’t let hollow heroes distract you from saving yourself.”
- “Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are.”
- “Dismantle your wounds so you stop living your life by them.”
Nikki Rowe.
- “You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won’t do a thing unless you believe it yourself.”
- “Spend time understanding who you are, after all the only person you’re ever going to truly live with; is yourself.”
- “Love only yourself a little bit longer, until you can’t stand not to love someone else.”
- “Our self-respect tracks our choices. Every time we act in harmony with our authentic self and our heart, we earn our respect. It is that simple. Every choice matters.”
Dan Coppersmith.
- “A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.”
- “Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.”
Jean Vanier.
- “Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy.”
- “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson.
- “Love yourself and dream bigger.”
- “The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.”
- “Your problem is you’re too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
- “You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.”
- “You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.”
- “Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
Rumi.
- “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
Howard Washington Thurman.
- “The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.”
Bob Moawad.
- “Others can’t always define your true identity. They see what they ‘want’ to see but beyond your mess, God sees the beauty He created and still thinks it’s good.”
- “To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.”
Alan Cohen.
Collected by: Sona HALYKOVA,
2nd year student of the Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Turkmenistan.