Maxwell Maltz: "If you are going to live with yourself, and be yourself, you might as well learn to like yourself."

That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability, or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.

All along your life, people come and go. Some hurt you, some make you smile, but each one of them leaves something of theirs with us. The new lessons they teach us, the new aspects of life they show us, making us better equipped to face the world - much stronger.

Say yes to yourself before you say yes to everything else.

I'm at that stage of my life where I don't need to impress anyone. If you like me as I am, perfect. If not, adios.

Your flaws and all, you are still worthy of love.