“Be what you are. Do what you love. Speak what you feel. Don’t hide your humanity. Celebrate it. Embrace it. That is how you change the world.”
~ Vironika Tugaleva

More thoughts on embracing who you are:
“The thing that is really hard and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning to work on becoming yourself.”
~ Anna Quindlen
“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.”
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
~ Lao Tzu
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Embrace /əmˈbrās/
verb
1- hold (someone) closely in one’s arms, especially as a sign of affection. “Aunt Sophie embraced her warmly”
2- accept or support (a belief, theory, or change) willingly and enthusiastically. “besides traditional methods, artists are embracing new technology”
noun
1- an act of holding someone closely in one’s arms. “they were locked in an embrace”
2- an act of accepting or supporting something willingly or enthusiastically. “their eager embrace of foreign influences”