“Being our messy authentic selves helps create a space where others feel safe to be themselves, too. Your vulnerability can be a gift to others. How badass is that?”— b.oakman
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“Being our messy authentic selves helps create a space where others feel safe to be themselves, too. Your vulnerability can be a gift to others. How badass is that?”— b.oakman
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.”— Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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you deserve to be loved without having to hide the parts of yourself that you think are unlovable.
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“I do not really know whether I have survived. My inner self has shut itself up more and more. As though to protect itself, it has become inaccessible even to me,”— Rainer Maria Rilke, from a letter to Elisabeth Schenck wr. c. January 1919
“Don’t judge yourself by what others did to you.”—
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