It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
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It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
Do your thing and don't care if they like it.
You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.
Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
You must learn to honor and cherish and love your Self. You must first see your Self as worthy before you can see another as worthy. You must first know your Self to be holy before you can acknowledge holiness in another.
To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
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