The more you grow, the more you need to protect that growth and continue to flourish. Don’t allow others to stunt you!

Poverty is a blessing only if regarded as starting point

Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.

Somehow in the chaos and mess she'd discovered who she was. Not a girl of the streets, though that was where she'd been raised. Not a woman of the court, though she appreciated the beauty and the grace of the balls. Someone else. Someone she liked.

You've got to be able to look at the mirror and smile at yourself. If you can't do that, you've got work to do. You have to learn to get along with yourself, to like yourself, to be proud of yourself. You've got to learn to celebrate yourself. You need to be able to love yourself before you can ever appreciate anyone else who does. You're worth it. Put the work in to have the best relationship with yourself that's possible.

You only grow when you are alone.