When you look in the mirror and say, 'I love you,' don't worry if you don't believe it yet. Love is far more powerful than your limiting beliefs.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the power of self-love and the importance of overcoming limiting beliefs.
Cheryl Richardson's quote highlights the strength of love, particularly self-love, in contrasting against our self-doubts and limiting beliefs. It suggests that even if one struggles to believe in their worthiness of love, the act of affirming love towards oneself can initiate a transformative process that encourages growth and self-acceptance.
In practice
During a self-care workshop focused on mental wellness.
If you want to live an authentic, meaningful life, you need to master the art of disappointing and upsetting others, hurting feelings, and living with the reality that some people just won't like you. It may not be easy, but it's essential if you want your life to reflect your deepest desires, values, and needs.
You are not your mother, your father, your history, or your cultural influences. You are uniquely and originally you. Be bold and daring and fearless and unconventional. Be willing to use your voice in service to your soul. Go on. Rock that damn boat. The wave you create might just change the world.
Just because some people are fueled by drama doesn't mean you have to attend the performance.
When you're brave enough to let go of anything you don't absolutely love or need, what you have left is the space for stillness and possibility.
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.
Jesus says. "Acknowledge and accept who I want to be for you: a Savior of boundless compassion, infinite patience, unbearable forgiveness, and love that keeps no score of wrongs. Quit projecting onto Me your own feelings about yourself. At this moment your life is a bruised reed and I will not crush it, a smoldering wick and I will not quench it. You are in a safe place." Brennan Manning. Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging
I used to look in the mirror and feel shame, I look in the mirror now and I absolutely love myself.
You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
So, fall asleep love, loved by me... for I know love, I am loved by thee.
I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.
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