"You can not be a healthy person, let alone have healthy children, if you sigh and moan every time you encounter your own image, eat a cookie, or see an airbrushed model on a billboard. Even if it amounts to wholesale pretending, go pretend. Walk around pretending to be a woman who likes her body... Because every step toward self-love you take, and every inch of confidence you give someone's daughter, makes the world a better place... You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful."
~Amy Bloom
AS YOU GROW UP, YOU WILL HAVE YOUR HEART
BROKEN
MORE THAN ONCE AND IT'S HARDER EVERY TIME. YOU'LL
BREAK HEARTS TOO, SO REMEMBER HOW IT FELT
WHEN YOURS WAS BROKEN. YOU'LL FIGHT WITH
YOUR
BEST FRIEND. YOU'LL CRY
BECAUSE TIME IS PASSING
TOO FAST, AND YOU'LL EVENTUALLY LOSE SOMEONE YOU
LOVE. SO TAKE TOO MANY PICTURES. LAUGH TOO MUCH
AND LOVE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER BEEN HURT. BECAUSE EVERY
60 SECONDS YOU SPEND UPSET, IS A MINUTE OF HAPPINESS
YOU'LL NEVER GET BACK.