If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
Interpretation
Self-love enhances your ability to love others and increases your happiness.
This quote highlights the importance of self-acceptance and self-love as foundational to forming healthy relationships with others. When you embrace your own imperfections, you cultivate a deeper capacity for compassion and affection towards those around you, which ultimately leads to increased happiness and fulfillment in life.
In practice
A motivational speaker emphasizing the importance of self-love during a workshop.
A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexuality, and that breaks my heart, because they're going to have to - high school's hard enough to overcome. Middle school is hard enough to overcome when we get out of it. They say life is what you spend your time getting over because of high school, you know what I mean?
When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear.
For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?
The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity.
Love is really the only thing we can possess, keep with us, and take with us.
Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!
Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.
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