self-acceptance

When enforcing our boundaries, first and foremost, we are caring for ourselves, but we are also helping others to have a clear understanding of what we consider acceptable behavior. We are reflecting back to them what is not acceptable and, therefore, providing them an opportunity to consider that information and make necessary changes.

POPPY (standing up to Paul): I see family life as invading everyone__ privacy and saying whatever I feel and treating everyone as they__e treasured because they__e my family and thus special as compared to the rest of the world. I see a good family as loud and frantic and intrusive.

POPPY: 25 December 2016 POPPY (standing up to Paul): You see family life as respecting boundaries and saying what makes people happy and treating everyone like they__e treasured but only in a sanitized way. I see family life as invading everyone__ privacy and saying whatever I feel and treating everyone as they__e treasured because they__e my family and thus special as compared to the rest of the world. I see a good family as loud and frantic and intrusive...He fits me, and I don__ want to change. Not for you or anyone. I__ deeply in love with myself, and Emmett respects that...____ not her (Christine). I don__ have a dream to fix animal boo-boos. Loving Emmett and living close to my family are the only dreams I see as worth having.

POPPY (standing up to Paul): He fits me, and I don__ want to change. Not for you or anyone. I__ deeply in love with myself, and Emmett respects that...____ not her (Christine). I don__ have a dream to fix animal boo-boos. Loving Emmett and living close to my family are the only dreams I see as worth having.

Rejected by man, yet accepted by the Maker.

It's okay to be happy with yourself for all that you are and aren't. It's okay to accept that life will not always be a "win-win". Its okay to fall and pick yourself back up. It's okay to be different and not be accepted by the crowd. Its okay to be on that journey of little beginnings. Your happiness should never be overburdened or compromised by none of your life choices. It's okay to just be happy

You work so hard to fix yourself, but maybe what you need isn't another tactic, another book, another expert, another five-step plan. Maybe, you don't need to be fixed. Maybe, what's really holding you back is the idea that you need to be fixed. Maybe you just need to let yourself play instead of always making yourself do homework.

CANDY: I learned long ago not to give a flying f*ck what strangers thought about me. H*ll, I only mildly care what my friends think. Life is too short to stress others_ opinions.

No one knows your truth but you. If you're secure in yourself, no one and no(thing) can touch you.

Love what you are.

A person must make peace with oneself before they will find peace with the world.

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

You do not have to be good.You do not have to walk on your kneesfor a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

Every day I wake up and ask myself, __ow can I accept myself and others more fully?

Self-knowledge, a spiritual metamorphosis, precedes understanding other people and comprehending the beauty of being part of the spontaneous interplay of the natural world.

Peace comes from within._ Do not seek it without.

There is no greater suffering than constantly measuring yourself and coming up short, except perhaps the realization that your suffering is hurting others. But where do we learn these things? Because, really, they are learned. We don't come crying out of the womb because of our birth weight or because we have no money in this brand new world. We learn to measure and we learn to attach our self-worth to those measurements.These patterns we're stuck in aren't just painful for us, they're also distracting us. Every day, the gap between rich and poor grows while the people of developed societies do nothing, because we are too busy worrying about looking good. We're distracted, but not because we've chosen to be. Being distracted by our illusory inadequacy keeps us from changing the world. And believe me, we all have the power to change the world. If we only make the time. If we only free some head space.If you can't learn to love yourself for yourself (and how could you with such a paradoxical motivation?)... then do it for us. Do it for the world. We need you. We need your mind. We need your attention. We need your thoughts. Change your focus, and you will (not can, but will) change the world. You already matter. You just have to realize it for yourself.

You need bravery for compassion. In the picture of your soul, the bravery points are the most beautiful.