"Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way."
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"The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!"
"If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man."
"Don't associate yourself with toxic people. It's better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself."
"The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything."
"Love your neighbor as yourself but don't take down your fence."
"Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections."
"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can."
"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."
"We must be our own before we can be another's."
"Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you."
"You are your own best friend. Never ever, put yourself down."
"If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me."
"I love Sufism as I love beautiful poetry, but it is not the answer. Sufism is like a mirage in the desert. It says to you, come and sit, relax and enjoy yourself for a while."
"To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way."
"Love yourself first and everything falls into line."
"People will stare. Make it worth their while."
"If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize."
"Until you love yourself, you will never know who you really are and you won’t know what you’re really capable of"
"Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself."
"At the end of the day, you won't be happy until you love yourself."