Your body’s reaction to fear is the same whether you are faced with a physical threat or an emotional one.

If you value yourself, you understand that you are a gift to anyone you meet.

You don't have to earn or deserve love. You are love. Loving is never about how others treat you. It is always about how you are treating yourself.

Accepting what others see as your strengths is crucial to your continued growth. Compliments are a gift. They are an opportunity for you and another person to connect in a powerful, positive way. How did you handle the last compliment directed at you? Did you accept it?

Your body’s reaction to fear is the same whether you are faced with a physical threat or an emotional one.

In order to make any permanent changes, you have to be willing. Willing to see things differently. Willing to experience new ideas. Willing to listen to the people who cheered you on rather than ones who echoed your fears.

Each precious moment of your life in which you are frozen with fear is a moment when you are not being all you can be. In the end, that hurts more than anything. Succeeding or failing does not determine if we are surviving or living. Rather it is in our ability to reach beyond our present self-imposed definition of who we are, and to risk becoming more, that we are able to feel fully alive.