Arca Quotes

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

I woke up one day and thought, 'Enough is enough with bullying myself.' The war is within you, and that's also where it's won. You just have to tackle your insecurities and then let them go.

Loving and accepting ourselves are the ultimate acts of courage.

I was not fighting myself at all as I used to.

You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.

The strength of any weakness within us is the degree to which it is feared.

I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.

One of the things I did when I discovered this huge importance of being vulnerable is very happily moved away from the shame research, because that's such a downer, and people hate that topic. It's not that vulnerability is the upside, but it's better than shame, I guess.

We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

I just want to say to women, 'Be yourself - it's the inner beauty that counts. You are your own best friend, the key to your own happiness, and as soon as you understand that - and it takes a few heartbreaks - you can be happy.'

Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected to all of humanity.

I gave up shame a long time ago.

Realizing that we've surrendered our self-esteem to others and choosing to be accountable for our own self-worth would mean absorbing the terrifying fact that we're always vulnerable to pain and loss.

I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

It's taken me years to embrace the softer elements of who I am and let that shine some.

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

You can't let someone else lower your self-esteem, because that's what it is - self-esteem. You need to first love yourself before you have anybody else love you.

I so desperately wanted to be honest, and I so desperately wanted to love myself and accept myself for who I was.

I think that people think that since I literally wrote the book on how to love yourself that I love myself all the time, but I don't.

Strength comes in so many forms. Not just the physical strength, but to understand the emotional strength. To have emotional vulnerability, to show that's not a weakness.

You've got to be your own best friend.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don't have any flaws.