Jonathan Van Ness Quotes

Because when you have this much personality, there's a fear lurking just below the surface: If you knew all of me, you wouldn't love me anymore.

You know those plants that are always trying to find the light? Maybe they were planted in a location that didn't necessarily facilitate growth, but inexplicably they make a circuitous route to not only survive but bloom into a beautiful plant. That was me - my whole life.

Comparing ourselves to people on social media is as risky as using WebMD to diagnose yourself. You'll end up way more stressed than before - just don't even go there.

I just wanna be fit and have good blood pressure and feel good with my clothes off and I do. I love my body but I think that there's always a part of me that wishes I looked more like Antoni or like an underwear model. But then again, I still really love to binge eat at McDonald's at night, so...you know.

At the end of the day, the people we let in our space affect our ability to get to where we want to go, so if they're in the way of realizing your potential, it's okay to disconnect because you must choose yourself.

You can't be fiercely loving without also being passionate - and sometimes passionate isn't pretty. What might seem testy is actually scar tissue, the residual effects of trauma that I lived through.

Our grief was leading us all towards Mexican food.

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

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

As scary as this can be I want you to know no matter how broken you feel, and how seemingly unlikely it is, we are never too broken to heal.

There are endless sexy shapes, colors, forms, and kinds of people who deserve celebration. It's each one of our jobs to reject that comparison of what we think beauty is and realize we are the motherfucking beauty.

My joy and my accomplishments existed, and so did the pain from my abuse. How can we feel one without the other? Joyful accomplishments exist next to painful memories. I found a lot of my healing when I realized my suffering didn't undo my joy.

There's a rhyme and reason behind my effervescent spirit, and no, I did not wake up like this. It took a lot of trauma and tears to become the person you see today.

It was a lesson for me. Even in my loneliest times, I knew I could go deep into my imagination and create a better reality for myself. And then that's built into my life in so many other areas. Those little moments kept me expanding instead of shrinking into myself.

My default is to be really critical of myself, but the world will do that for me, so I gotta make sure I always know I have my back.

One thing I have come to notice in my life is that recovery for me has not been linear. It's more two steps forward, three back, five forward, two back, so I'm always improving but there are setbacks within the improvement.

It's not gonna be pretty, but it's my truth, and if I don't share it, I won't be able to help others who are struggs to func.