Don't feel bad if you still wish your body looked different or if your voice sounded better or if you can't quite love yourself yet. Self-acceptance is a journey. You're not hopeless just because others may be ahead of you. Appreciate yourself. Appreciate how far you've come. You're on your way, at your own pace.

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Beauty is not long hair, skinny legs, tanned skin or perfect teeth. Believe me. Beauty is the face of who cried and now smiles, beauty is the scar on your knee since you fell when you were a kid, beauty is the circles when love doesn't let you sleep, beauty is the expression on the face when the alarm rings in the morning, it's the melted makeup when you have a shower, it's the laughter when you make a joke you're the only one who can understand, beauty is meeting his gaze and stopping understanding, beauty is your gaze when you see him, it's when you cry for all you paranoias, beauty is the lines marked by time. Beauty is what we feel in the inside which also shows outside us. Beauty is the marks the life leaves on us, all the kicks and the caresses the memories leave us. Beauty is letting yourself live. 
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if you listen carefully you can hear me whisper "shut the fuck up" at least once every five minutes