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You've Always Been Good Enough You Just Gotta Start Believing It

You are enough. You've always been more than enough - you've just been loving the wrong people.
Sade Andria Zabala
August 15, 2016
“You are hard to look at 
not because you glow, 
but because you are the drop off of a skyscraper. 
You are the distance to the ground, 
you are what people fear to fall into, 
you are what people risk their lives to see. 
And when someone does finally see you,
it is because they were courageous enough to look”
— Lillian Shelton, Untitled
Tagged: Poetry, Jealousy, Inspirational, Love, Identity, Self love, strength
“I thought you understood me, but it was just me misunderstanding you.”
— Michael Lipsey, via Tumblr
Tagged: Relationships, Misunderstanding, Communication, Identity, Deep Thoughts, Irony
“So here I am. This is as good as it gets. Take it or leave it.”
— Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor
Tagged: Self love, Be yourself, Identity, Relationships
“I don't broadcast every high and I don't hide every low. I'm trying to live, I'm not trying to convince the world I have a life.”
— Rob Hill Sr., via twitter.com
Tagged: Life, Perspective, Humility, Inspirational, Social Media, Spilled Ink
“I’m still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.”
— Rudy Francisco, via twitter.com
Tagged: Acceptance, Self love, Growing Pains, Spilled Ink, Inspirational, Insecurities, Deep Thoughts
“You will still be art even when he stops admiring.”
— Anonymous, via Tumblr
Tagged: Art, Inspirational, Self love, strength, Perspective
“We should learn to accommodate ourselves to “wrongness,” striving always to adopt a more forgiving, humorous and kindly perspective on its multiple examples in ourselves and in our partners.”
— Alain de Botton, Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person
Tagged: Marriage, Love, Relationships, Conflict, forgiveness, Perspective
“When somebody else comes along and makes you feel like something special — it’s like catnip. You want more of it. You want to say: ‘Let’s get lunch sometime.’ But in the end, you are what you are no matter how somebody makes you feel. It’s just a feeling.”
— Anonymous, Humans of New York
Tagged: Identity, Cheating, Marriage, Relationships, Companionship, Loneliness, Dating, Solitude, Alone, Spilled Ink
“I am a museum full of art, but you had your eyes shut.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Ignored, Crush, Unrequited Love, Heartbreak, Poetry, Did Not Appreciate Me, You Took Me For Granted
“It does not count if you believe in yourself when it's easy to believe in yourself. 

It counts when it's hard to believe in yourself, when it looks like the world's going to end and you've still got a long way to go.

That's when it counts. ”
— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Self-Concept, Self-Esteem, Change, Overcoming Obstacles, Challenges, Rising To Challenges, Motivating
“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”
— Ray Bradbury, Bradbury Stories: 100 of His Most Celebrated Tales
Tagged: Acceptance, Rejection, self control, self awareness, Happiness, one perfect sentence, said to exes, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“I'm like everybody else: weak, full of mistakes, but basically good.”
— Junot Dìaz, This Is How You Lose Her
Tagged: Goodness, Identity, Self Improvement, Psychology
“I don’t chase people anymore. I learned that I’m here, and I’m important. I’m not going to run after people to prove that I matter.”
— Emily Y., The Artidote
Tagged: Self love, Self Worth, Relationships, Growing Pains
“So I encourage everyone to do more than seek out a label - seek out yourself”
— Equality Speaks, Labels - Sexuality & Gender
Tagged: Gender Labels, Gender Norms, LGBTQ, Identity
“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.”
— Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
Tagged: Relationships, Self-Esteem
“This is the only face and body you're ever going to get, so be comfortable and happy in it. Own it. Own every aspect of who you are and present it to the world with the utmost pride.”
— Connor Franta, A Work in Progress: A Memoir
Tagged: beauty, Self-Love, Self-Esteem
“Don't overestimate everyone else and underestimate yourself.”
— Tanya Burr, Love, Tanya
Tagged: Self-Esteem, Self-Love
“But sometimes, we just have to be happy with what people can offer us. Even if it's not what we want, at least it's something. You know?”
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
Tagged: Happiness, Good Enough
“In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake, but by what you finally accomplish.”
— Donald Trump, via twitter.com
Tagged: Perspective, Life
“I promise to be gentle with myself. Because in an argument with myself, I’ll always lose.”
— Kristin Addis, 30 Healthy Promises To Make To Yourself Before Turning 30
Tagged: Argument With Myself, Be Gentle, Be Kind To Yourself, Self love, How To Love Yourself, How Love Yourself Properly, Self-Esteem
“My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.”
— Anaïs Nin, The Artidote
Tagged: Finding Yourself, Peace Of Mind, Inspirational
“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself.”
— Simone de Beauvoir, Second Sex
Tagged: Identity, Self love
“I am a confident woman, but I didn’t just arrive confident – it has built over the years and that is a big part of who I am now.”
— Kim Kardashian, Kim: 'It Bothers Me That I’m Not Pregnant'
Tagged: Body Positive, Confidence
“I’ve learned to ignore everything. In the beginning, I thought I was too sensitive for this. I’d Google myself, and it would freak me out. Now, I could care less if they say I’m pregnant with twins by my brother.”
— Kim Kardashian, Could you care less?
Tagged: Paparazzi, Media
“When someone called me a hero, I wanted to prove them right. When someone called me a devil, I wanted to prove them wrong. It took a lot of self-examination to realize that I was neither. There is a fullness to a person that is gigantic and nuanced and indefinable. It was equally impossible to be a hero or a devil. I couldn’t be contained by a single word.”
— Anonymous, Humans of New York
Tagged: Self Discovery, Growing Pains, Perspective, Deep Thoughts
“To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that person's opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of God.”
— Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Rejection, Self-Love
“When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits - anything that kept me small.

My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.”
— Kim McMillen, When I Loved Myself Enough
Tagged: Don't Go Back, love myself, Self-Love
“If you want to change the way others treat you, you should first change the way you treat yourself.”
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi
Tagged: Self-Respect, Self-Love, Love Yourself
“You wake up with a list of all the people you'd rather be. But you're already on everyone else's list.”
— Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Love, Self-Love, beauty
“Just a friendly reminder that functioning under the impression that you must be happy all the time can stress you out. Relax. Feel what you're feeling and let it flow.”
— Andrian Janog Jutba, via Facebook
Tagged: Zen, Happiness, yoga, relax, Spilled Ink, Stress, emotions