accepting-yourself

You cannot ask someone to like you or love you more than you like or love yourself. YOU have to set the standard.

We can not paint that in a more positive way if it is already negative, we have to take it that way and think of other means for reaching there.

People always, always talk about confidence, it__ supposed to be such an attractive thing. I wonder why though, why is it supposed to be such an attractive thing? When confidence hides so many other things that are so much more beautiful! When you think of being confident, you think of tucking away all those other things that you consider to be nuisances; but those nuisances make up whom you are! And those nuisances are beautiful. They are beautiful and they are you and they__e always going to be there, even when you try to cover them up! So what happens when they all come out one day? Are you going to feel like less of a person? Are the people who are supposed to love you, going to see you as less of a person? I say that it__ not about going out into the world and putting on a certain face_ it__ just about going out into the world. I__e gone out into the world! And I don__ put on that face! Or any other face, as a matter of fact! I don__ want to hide the way I play with my hair to feel more secure or the way I laugh at all the wrong times. I don__ want to hide those things because those things are a part of me. And I can still go out into the world_ and all alone, too! I know so, because I__e actually done it! So more important than confidence_ is serenity and acceptance. The serenity comes from having a deep acceptance of all those little things about you that add up like the trillions of molecules and atoms you are made up of! And that__ just beautiful. Being beautiful is something rooted and strong; being confident is just a matter of putting on something that isn__ even a real part of you. Falling in love with the molecules that make up your essence is so much more attractive. And maybe that__ what confidence really means_ the acceptance and belief in every single atom that you are.

Self motivation leads to acceptance of thyself.

Here is the voice of my main Character in my Talon book series, I__l let her introduce herself to you:My name is Matica and I am a special needs child with a growth disability. I am stuck in the body of a two year old, even though I am ten years old when my story begins in the first book of the Talon series, TALON, COME FLY WITH ME. Because of that disability, (I am saying __hat_ disability, not __y_ disability because it__ a thing that happens to me, nothing more and because I am not accepting it as something bad. I can say that now after I learned to cope with it.) I was rejected by the local Indians as they couldn__ understand that that condition is not a sickness and so it can__ be really cured. It__ just a disorder of my body. But I never gave up on life and so I had lots of adventures roaming around the plateau where we live in Peru, South America, with my mother__ blessings. But after I made friends with my condors I named Tamo and Tima, everything changed. It changed for the good. I was finally loved. And I am the hero and I embrace my problem. In better words: I had embraced my problem before I made friends with my condors Tamo and Tima. I held onto it and I felt sorry for myself and cried a lot, wanting to run away or something worse. But did it help me? Did it become better? Did I grow taller? No, nothing of that helped me. I didn__ have those questions when I was still in my sorrow, but all these questions came to me later, after I was loved and was cherished. One day I looked up into the sky and saw the majestic condors flying in the air. Here and now, I made up my mind. I wanted to become friends with them. I believed if I could achieve that, all my sorrow and rejection would be over. And true enough, it was over. I was loved. I even became famous. And so, if you are in a situation, with whatever your problem is, find something you could rely on and stick to it, love that and do with that what you were meant to do. And I never run from conflicts.

Accepting that life is insane, that bad things happen to good people and that you can find the courage to be grateful for the good in every situation and still move forward is hard (even terrifying), but heroic.

Dare to be different. Find the courage to accept that you may always fit in, and the peace within to stop looking for the approval of others. Just be the amazing being that you are. People who shine the light of who they truly are, are inspiring to others.

Accept all of you, the good with the bad, the successes with the failures, the times you shone and the mistakes you made. It will bring into a place of peace. It will help you to move forward with your life.

There is no model, no actress, no Miss America contender that can outshine a happy, confident, secure woman.

God can turn your biggest flaws into your biggest cause.

Your message, your ministry, your influence is built from your flaws. People relate to HUMANITY...not perfection.

Stand strong in your worth and don't let anyone talk you out of it.

The soul accepts the mystery within and all around, immersing itself in it, celebrating it.

Maybe it__ NOT Maybelline. Maybe you were just born with it.

Outer beauty pleases the EYE. Inner beauty captivates the HEART.

The entire quest is for acceptance. You run from pillar to post for being accepted as you are. This quest ends only when you realize that the most important in life is to accept yourself totally, wholly and completely. Unfortunately, that is a long drawn process and it takes time to reach that level. However, once you reach that stage, you are at entire peace with yourself.

It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant.

So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!