At some point, you’ll need these words of encouragement for a friend. When that time comes, I hope you find the courage to let them feel whatever they’re feeling without needing to fix it for them.

Forgiveness gives many things, like freedom from having to drag around the weight of what everyone else does. It's a process. The longer you hold a grudge, the longer it takes (usually) for a grudge to stop holding you. But there’s hope still, even after everything. That's the power of forgiveness: newness.

There's room enough for everything you feel and everything you are. There's space for doubt and for compassion. If you feel incomplete, you're in the right place to remember your own wholeness. Read these self-acceptance quotes to find your way home, back to your own spacious, generous heart. There's room for you here.

When you muster the courage to love and embrace yourself... all your humanness, flaws, and rejections included... you open new doors. They lead to genuine connection with others, purpose in your work, joy in the middle of everything. Here are ten simple ways to love yourself so you can live better.

Just by being here, you bring something new to the world that wasn’t here before. You're a unique expression of the universe, and you’re worthy of being here. If you need help believing that, read this. One of the benefits of loving yourself is the connection you'll feel... to everything. Because you are, essentially, everything.

You don't need to fight your body, or hate your body, or give up on anything. Try these affirmations for healing your body instead. One heartbeat at a time, you can feel better. And the way you speak to yourself, treat yourself, can change everything.

How to love yourself… ah, what a trip. Real self-love is about respecting the entirety of your story, not just the good parts. If you're ready to feel better about your place on earth, read this. You might find exactly the thing that helps you fall in love with being alive again.

You can't enter the world someone other than who you really are and expect to be loved for who you are. You need to be the one who validates your own self, who respects your own physical presence on earth. Come back to these mantras when you forget how valuable you are, how far you've come, how much potential you have.

You're so much more than your physical body, but whatever intelligent source you came from didn't bring you here on accident. You're a way for the universe to know itself better, and that's pretty stunning. Read these body positive mantras to remember how valuable you are.

If you're willing to love yourself but you're not sure how to get there, read these self-love quotes. They'll encourage you to let your compassion go full circle. Because love that's held back anywhere isn't really love at all. And you're not here for anything less than love.