Confucius: "Respect yourself and others will respect you."

As long as you look for someone else to validate who you are by seeking their approval, you are setting yourself up for disaster. You have to be whole and complete in yourself. No one can give you that. You have to know who you are - what others say is irrelevant.

You deserve kindness from the voice inside your own head.

Don’t force yourself to fit in where you don’t belong.