lkatzin

Love yourself.
          Be clear on how
          you want to be treated.
          Know your worth.
          Always.
                             -maryam hasnaa

Start over, my darling.
          Be brave enough to find the
          Life you want, and courageous
          enough to chase it. Then start
          over and love yourself the way
          you were always meant to.
          
                                          — Madalyn Beck

the color of low self esteem
          
          what i never 
          learned 
          from my mother
          was that
          just because someone desires you
          does not 
          mean
          they value you.
          desire is the kind of thing
          that
          eats you
          and
          leaves you starving.
          
          @nayyirah.waheed

emotional nutrition
          
          I will tell you, my daughter
          of you worth
          not your beauty
          every day (your beauty is a given. every being
          is born beautiful).
          knowing your worth
          can save your life.
          raising you on beauty alone
          you will be starved.
          you will be raw.
          you will be weak.
          an easy stomach.
          always in need of someone telling you
          how beautiful you are.
          
          nayyirah.waheed

You can’t keep her in a cage,
          clip her wings,
          tell her lies;
          say that fragile birds were never meant to fly.
          Watch her live behind a rusted door
          latched tight.
          Her spirit slipping away so you can
          keep her in sight.
          Beautiful creatures cannot be confined.
          Her wings will grow.
          She’ll find the sky.
                                                      -Christy Ann Martine

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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
          Rainer Maria Rilke