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.
I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.
I love Marvel and the people there. Im glad I m still part of it.
We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.
So dear I love him, that with him, all deaths I could endure, without him, live no life.
A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a legend of itself, turn its beginnings into myth; so I don't want to assert that it was love; but I have no doubt there was a kind of clairvoyance at work: I immediately felt, sensed, grasped the essence of Lucie's being or, to be more precise, the essence of what she was later to become for me; Lucie had revealed herself to me the way religious truth reveals itself.
If you listen long enough you can hear my skin grow tough love is painful to the touch must be made of stronger stuff.
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