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Life is so much a daily exercise in learning to love yourself and forgive yourself, over and over.

— Jonathan Van Ness Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love (2019)

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Being normal is being completely unique, because nobody's the same.

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There are a million ways to reach recovery. Don't let anyone tell you you can't find a way that works for you.

Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love (2019)

Just because we mess up doesn't mean all the lessons we learned are undone. Healing can be imperfect.

Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love (2019)

My philosophy was very much to embrace yourself and love what you are, instead of making you something you're not. Refine what you already have - don't change it at its core. That's always been my whole ethos.

Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love (2019)

We are all a beautiful jumble of layers, parts, and mixtures of experiences, but my most important part, and in my opinion everyone's most valuable part, is the one that chooses self-love instead of self-harm in the grand sweeping ways but also the little ways every single day.

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