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.
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.
Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
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.
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.
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.
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
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.
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
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