I feel that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.
Interpretation
Self-acceptance is crucial for a fulfilling life and affects how everything else unfolds.
This quote emphasizes the importance of self-love and acceptance as a foundation for a successful and harmonious life. When individuals embrace their true selves without judgment or reservation, they unlock the potential for personal growth and positive changes in various aspects of their lives, leading to overall happiness and fulfillment.
In practice
Using it in a motivational speech about personal growth.
Be grateful for what you do have, and you will find it increases. I like to bless with love all that is in my life right now-my home, the heat, water, light, telephone, furniture, plumbing, appliances, clothing, transportation, jobs-the money I do have, friends, my ability to see and feel and taste and touch and walk and to enjoy this incredible planet.
Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of gratitude. I now allow this gratitude to fill my heart, my body, my mind, my consciousness, my very being. This gratitude radiates out from me in all directions, touching everything in my world, and returns to me as more to be grateful for. The more gratitude I feel, the more I am aware that the supply is endless.
Be willing to stop punishing yourself for your mistakes. Love yourself for your willingness to learn and grow.
Would you really dig into yesterday's garbage to make tonight's meal? Do you dig into yesterday's mental garbage to create today's experiences?
Don't settle for anybody just to have someone. Set your standards. What kind of love do you want to attract? List the qualities you really want in the relationship. Develop those qualities in yourself and you will attract a person who has them.
You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind.
Of all the icy blasts that blow on love, a request for money is the most chilling.
Love is a light that shines from heart to heart.
A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
They aren't common, but enormously interesting. How can it be that you've been together that long and you're still intensely in love with them?
She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.
I am running through a snowfall which is her thighs, he dramatized in purple. Her thighs are filling up the street. Wide as a snowfall, heavy as huge falling Zeppelins, her damp thighs are settling on the sharp roofs and wooden balconies. Weather-vanes press the shape of roosters and sail-boats into the skin. The faces of famous statues are preserved like intaglios.
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