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.
He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with eager longing. Love was like a parasite in his heart, nourishing a hateful existence on his life's blood; it absorbed his existence so intensely that he could take pleasure in nothing else.
Love means to look at yourself_x000D_ The way one looks at distant things_x000D_ For you are only one thing among many.
Two pure souls fused into one by an impassioned love-friends, counselors-a mutual support and inspiration to each other amid life's struggles, must know the highest human happiness;-this is marriage; and this is the only cornerstone of an enduring home.
The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.
Herman slipped his hand into mine, and I thought, An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand, and the next thing that happened was we kissed each other, and I found I knew how, and I felt happy and sad in equal parts, because I knew that I was falling in love, but it wasn't with him.
I spend a lot of time wondering how to best support the people that I love, because I think sometimes that means getting out of the way. When should I leave them alone to have their own life?
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