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Maria Dahvana Headley Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“Tell yourself: 'I know you're trying to grow, and working hard,' instead of telling yourself, 'you piece of shit, you aren't perfect.'”
— Maria Dahvana Headley
Tagged: Self love, Self Appreciation, Self Care, Love Yourself, learn to love yourself
“Life is hard for the living, but damn, it's good to be alive and changing and working. The only way to keep doing that is to keep feeding yourself, and keep treating yourself like someone who matters. You matter. Be kind.”
— Maria Dahvana Headley
Tagged: Life, life advice, Empowering, Self love, Self Appreciation, self empowering, Love Yourself
“This is your reminder to treat yourself, even on hard days, like you would treat the love of your life. Do not fall into the zone of treating yourself like an enemy. Treat yourself like a person who has been through some things, and deserves care, joy & acknowledgment.”
— Maria Dahvana Headley
Tagged: Self love, Self Appreciation, Love Yourself, Self Care
“This is just slow build and big ambition, and some luck. Not everyone gets everything they want. I don’t have everything I want. But when something goes right, even in the wrong direction, I try to celebrate that shit.”
— Maria Dahvana Headley
Tagged: Life, life advice, you can't have everything, Keep Going, keep reaching your dreams, reaching dreams take time, Motivational
“But you don’t know what you can do until you try it. And trying is the reason you’re here.”
— Maria Dahvana Headley
Tagged: Keep Going, Keep Trying, Never Give Up, Careers, Life, life advice, never quit, keep on living, live well, Empowering
“The shaming of victims as stupid, as clearly to blame for their assaults is systemic and devastating. All this needs to be shifted radically. Starting with each one of us. I see you, victims of assault. It was never your fault.”
— Maria Dahvana Headley
Tagged: Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, Victims of Sexual Assault, Victims of Rape, smash the patriarchy
“The first yes, though, is the one you tell yourself. That one’s huge. It’s when you say, I will do this anyway. I will do it because it matters to me to make this attempt at the summit. You will not be perfect. No one is perfect. It will be hard. Everything is hard.”
— Maria Dahvana Headley
Tagged: Writing, Writing Advice, getting published, Life, Career, life advice
“People will tell you things about the world, ways in which they think you might fail. Some of the things they tell you might be right. Failure can be survived. Keep making a list of your best version, and keep ticking items off. Keep learning. Write your world.”
— Maria Dahvana Headley
Tagged: Life, life advice, Failures, reaching dreams, Do what you want, Keep Going, Never Give Up, Empowering
“It is never nothing to be alive and on this planet and able to make words. It is never nothing to have survived pain, to have kept yourself going, to be this tough thing who is a miracle. I am saying this to you. I’ve had to say it to myself. You are something.”
— Maria Dahvana Headley
Tagged: You Matter, Life, Empowering, Keep Going, Keep Living, just live your life, live fully, live well, Never Give Up
“You can do it. You can be completely daunted and scared, and still, if you do the work to learn how to write, and do the work of writing, you can make stories people will read. You can change myths people think they’ve committed to memory. You can rock this place.”
— Maria Dahvana Headley
Tagged: Writing, Writing Advice, Life, life advice, Keep Going, Never Give Up, just do what you want, Empowering
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