If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
Buddha (via inspirationalinsight)
If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.
celebrate your personal victories because no one else understands what it took to accomplish them

if you had to drop out of a class you are not a failure
if you had to take time off school you are not a failure
if you had to leave school for good you are not a failure
your worth is not determined by academia and this goes doubly so for disabled people and others for whom school is set against them
Too many people undervalue what they are, and overvalue what they’re not.
Appreciate those who don’t give up on you.
I shiver, thinking how easy it is to be totally wrong about people, to see one tiny part of them and confuse it for the whole.
Be proud of who you are, and not ashamed of how someone else sees you.