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.
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.
It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.
Love is not self-sacrifice, but the most profound assertion of your own needs and values. It is for your own happiness that you need the person you love, and that is the greatest compliment, the greatest tribute you can pay to that person.
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
Love is wise – Hatred is foolish.
It is the Holy Spirit’s job to convict, God’s job to judge and my job to love.
God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be.
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.
I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.
Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.
You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.
Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.
Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we’re all in this together.
Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.
Believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.
Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance.
Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it’s a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.
Self-compassion is key because when we’re able to be gentle with ourselves in the midst of shame, we’re more likely to reach out, connect, and experience empathy.