It’s not what you say to everybody else that determines your life – it’s what you whisper to yourself every day that has the greatest power. So don’t look for others to give you permission to be yourself. You don’t need anyone’s validation to be “good enough” or to have a great day today.
Seriously, you can’t base your ideas of success and happiness on other people’s opinions and expectations! Be your own experiment. Be your own work of art. Be a work in progress. And be OK with it. Let people around you see the real, imperfect, quirky, weird, beautiful, magical person YOU are. That is enough. I know we may be broken, but let’s never quit talking positively to ourself.
Evans Akpo 