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Alisha Zalkin

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ALISHA ZALKIN

“I pray that one day we live in a world where we are encouraged to experience the full human emotional spectrum without shame, guilt, or judgment. Where we don’t have to fear our inner demons, darkness, and suffering, but rather hold one another in the space for true healing. A world where we can stop pretending life has to be perfect every damn day, and we can let down our walls and surrender to the truth. A world where we are encouraged to take the time to breathe deeply in silence without distractions, and connect to our light, because ‘the light gets in through the cracks.'” Facebook

Demi Lovato

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DEMI LOVATO

“I had a really tough time when I was in middle school. People would write ‘hate petitions’ [about me] and send them around to be signed. They’d have CD-bashing parties of my demos. They’d come to my house, stand across the street and yell things. It was a very emotional time for me, and all I wanted to do was get away.” People Magazine

Christina Hendricks

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CHRISTINA HENDRICKS

“I had the worst high school experience ever. I went to a very mean school and was bullied like crazy… If I could go back and tell my 14-year-old self anything it would be, ‘Don’t worry. You’re going to be doing exactly what you want to be doing and those people who are a***holes now are still going to be a***holes in 20 years. So let it go!’”  UK Mirror

Ansel Elgort

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ANSEL ELGORT

“I went through a lot of bullying in middle school and it made me so upset all the time. I hated my life. I hated everything. I live in New York City in a high building with a little terrace. I’d go on the terrace and I’d look off the terrace and I literally just thought about  jumping off because I hated living so much. It does make it so hard when your that age and everyone is being mean to you at school and you have to go to school every day and deal with people being mean to you. You feel like what you have to say isn’t important and that you’re not important. The way that I coped with it was making another group of friends outside of that group of people who were mean to me so that I had some sort of  support system. Then I focused all my energy on acting and dancing and singing and music so that I felt like I had a purpose that sort of took me out of it and made me forget about it a little bit and it made it a lot better.”  BystanderRevolution.org

 

Demi Lovato

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DEMI LOVATO
“Getting in the gym makes me feel the best I possibly can, so I make sure I get that in. It’s all about finding your strength, feeling comfortable in your own skin. I never thought I’d be in such a great place. That’s the beauty of working on yourself and taking care of yourself. You get to places where you never thought you’d be.”  People Magazine

 

Hailee Steinfeld

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HAILEE STEINFELD

“It’s easy to get caught up in what other people have to say about you – and I have myself – but you can’t please everybody. If you’re happy, that all that really matters.

As long as I love what I’m wearing and feel great in it, then there’s no reason to care what anybody else thinks. If you go out and feel comfortable and confident, you can rock anything and people will see that. And if they don’t, then it’s their own opinion.”  People Magazine

 

 

 

 

 

Barbra Streisand

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 BARBRA STREISAND

“I was an ugly duckling and a loner. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father. My mother laughed at my ambition. She never hugged me or said words like, ‘I love you.’ I never would have ended up doing what I’m doing. I owe her my career. I was always trying to prove to her that I was worthy of being somebody. If you don’t feel loved as a child, you spend your life trying to get that love. People who have two parents who love them are very lucky. They are not left with a hole to fill. You have to fill it with yourself, eventually.” CLOSER

Ellen Degeneres

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ELLEN DEGENERES

“No matter what the cost is at the time, it is always important that whoever the essence of us is, we are born individually, we are all unique, and we are supposed to be that exact person. We’re not supposed to conform. We’re not supposed to be like somebody else. As long as you stay true to exactly who are are, you will be rewarded in ways that you can’t imagine.” Ellen Degeneres Show