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Sometimes I'm terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts. | Edgar Allen Poe

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Accept yourself. Love yourself just as you are. Your finest work, your best movements, your joy, peace, and healing come when you love yourself. You give a great gift to the world when you do that. You give others permission to do the same: to love themselves. Revel in self love. Roll in it. Bask in it, as you would the sunshine. | Melodie Beattie

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The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. | Anna Quindlen

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You learn how to love, by loving yourself. because some days it comes easily, and some days its much harder than it should be. You learn that love is patience. And overwhelming kindness. That love is acceptance and forgiveness and the strength to try again tomorrow. And if you can't love yourself in that way that is whole and broken and completely exhausting, then you have no hope at ever loving another living soul. | Sharlyn Emily

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Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It's all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary. | Chuck Palahniuk