You're able to love others, to give to others, and do for others by giving and doing for yourself first.
Interpretation
You must take care of yourself to effectively care for others.
Wayne Dyer emphasizes the importance of self-love and self-care as a prerequisite for being able to love and support others. By prioritizing one's own well-being, we can cultivate the capacity to give, love, and assist those around us authentically and thoughtfully.
In practice
During a motivational speech about self-care and personal growth.
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.
Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'
Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .
I think every human being knows how to hate. Because if they didn't know how to hate how to hate they wouldn't know how to love.
I loved you; even now I may confess, Some embers of my love their fire retain; But do not let it cause you more distress, I do not want to sadden you again. Hopeless and tongue tied, yet I loved you dearly With pangs the jealous and the timid know; So tenderly I loved you, so sincerely, I pray God grant another love you so.
Okay, let’s put it this way. I would like to sleep with you. But it’s alright if I don’t sleep with you. What I’m saying is I’d like to be as fair as possible. I don’t want to force anything on anybody, any more than I’d want anything forced on me. It’s enough that I feel your presence or see your commas swirling around me.
I’d thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she’d surpassed all the language I had for it.
She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.
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