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When you find yourself drowning in self-hate, you have to remind yourself that you weren’t born feeling this way. That at some point in your journey, some person or experience sent you the message that there was something wrong with who you are, and you internalized those messages and took them on as your truth. But that hate isn’t yours to carry, and those judgments aren’t about you. And in the same way that you learned to think badly of yourself, you can learn to think new, self-loving and accepting thoughts. You can learn to challenge those beliefs, take away their power, and reclaim your own. It won’t be easy, and it won’t happen over night. But it is possible. And it starts when you decide that there has to be more to life than this pain you feel. It starts when you decide that you deserve to discover it.

You don’t remember what happened. What you remember becomes what happened.

Someone once told me that human beings have three dimensions: how you see yourself, how others see you, and how you want others to see you. The closer the distance between the three dimensions, the more at peace you are and the more stable you become.

I think a lot of times we don’t pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.

I didn’t really realize that until I saw some documentary about somebody, I don’t remember what it was but they were saying that they had nobody to like have the success with them. Nobody could high-five them… I think it was Taylor Swift actually, I think it was in her documentary. She said something like - you know, at the biggest moments in my career I had nobody to be like, ‘Yes, we did it! High-five! We’re both on the high together.’ It was just only her alone in it. And I realized like, 'Wow, I have my brother.’ You know, I’m super lucky to have my brother to be in it with me.

“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”