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⁣Too often—way too often—we fear letting ourselves shine because that means letting ourselves be seen.

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The truth is it will always feel like something is missing.

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But as tiny as it was, one day, for some reason I will probably never be able to explain, I chose to believe in it, in this tiny little thing, and take on that storm inside of me head on. 

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We as women are told that we are princesses: we only deserve to be loved by a prince. Up until recently, I didn’t realize how flawed this mentality was.

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You are worthy of a love that is permanent. A love that never gives up. A love that values you for who you are. 

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There is more to this life than believing what you have right now is all there is, that this is all you can get, that you’re stuck. There is more out there; go get it.

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Accept the fact that sometimes you won’t understand why you’re feeling a certain way, and that’s okay.

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You can’t be scared to love again because each love is a new chapter. And damn it, you deserve to write yourself a beautiful story.

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My life would not be the same without your smile, without your laugh, without the silly and foolish and unforgettable moments that have defined us all these years.

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We think that ‘finding’ ourselves is synonymous with ‘fixing’ ourselves—that we continually have to reform or change who we’ve been to become something worthy of love and light. But we are not broken beings; we don’t need to be fixed.