#elf

If you try anything, if you try to lose weight, or to improve yourself, or to love, or to make the world a better place, you have already achieved something wonderful, before you even begin. Forget failure. If things don't work out the way you want, hold your head up high and be proud. And try again. And again. And again! ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#determination #initiative #self-improvement #love

Sometimes we reveal ourselves when we are least like ourselves. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#love

The fastest way for me to achieve self-improvement is with The Opponent Apparatus (my clone). ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#self-improvement #change

But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilling yearnings. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it come your way, by your own exertions. ↗

— Ben Stein

#exertions #happens #itself #make #nothing

Love After Love The time will come when, with elation you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror and each will smile at the other's welcome, and say, sit here. Eat. You will love again the stranger who was your self. Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life, whom you ignored for another, who knows you by heart. Take down the love letters from the bookshelf, the photographs, the desperate notes, peel your own image from the mirror. Sit. Feast on your life. ↗

— Derek Walcott

#poetry #self #life

When you care more if someone else lives than you do about yourself- is that what [love is]? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#self-abnegation #love

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#love #self-knowledge #love

There is nothing so rewarding as to make people realize that they are worthwhile in this world. ↗

— Bob Anderson

#love #self-worth #love

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kind of falls into place. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#figure #love #place #you #yourself