self-acceptance

Leave your hair natural. Let your beard grow out. Leave the makeup in the bag. Wear comfortable clothes. Stop worrying so much about your looks and start looking around you. You have missed so much beauty trying to become beautiful. You have missed your own worth trying to become worthy. Let the mask break open. Let it lie on the floor. Let yourself be seen. Let yourself see.

Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

The past cannot be changed, forgotten, edited or erased; it can only be accepted.

All our dreams can manifest in life not because we are white or black, but because we believe.

Do not allow your resentment towards negative in this era to blind you into spiting yourself. We were made unique and should celebrate each other's life and the uniqueness that defines us.

Glory in your small dreams, because inside them something bigger may emerge.

Self-acceptance can be daunting at first, but it is made easier with the understanding that self-acceptance is not hinged on perfection. Self-acceptance is the starting point.

The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself.

Dismantle your wounds so you stop living your life by them.

If our focus is on how we are supposed to feel then we deny ourselves the joy of freedom in how we truly feel.

Some people walk through a hallway with covered mirrors_ the hallway is lined with mirrors but there are blankets covering each of them. They go through life believing in an image of themselves that isn't real, and an image of themselves standing in the world and relative to the world, that isn't real. If you happen to be in that hallway and pull the blankets off the mirrors, they're going to think that you're hurting them; but they're actually just seeing their reflection for the first time. Sometimes the most horrendous thing a person can see, is all the hidden things inside them, the things they've covered, the things they choose not look at. And you're not hurting them, you're setting them free.

Accept yourself in a way you are created

Accept yourself in the way you were created by God, do not anyone else

Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

Before label yourself and before you decide that there is something irreparably wrong with your thoughts or emotions, ask yourself: __o I have a caring, unconditionally loving best friend in myself?_ If the answer is __o,_ then you will not find the solution to your suffering until you address this serious, life-threatening absence of self-compassion. Self-love is not a dinner mint. Self-love matters. Self-love saves lives.

Be easy with yourself. Be gentle. Remember to be your own friend. We all make mistakes. We all say silly things now and then. It's also OK to change your mind. Don't replay the moments. Don't torture yourself with critique and negative self-talk. The expectation is not perfection, it's to keep moving forward. Keep trying. Keep learning and growing. You'll get a lot further with a positive attitude. Love will open and grow you. Love will encourage you. No one can love you more than you can love yourself. Be your own ally. Learn to help not hinder yourself.

We must be able to love other people or forever endure the stain of disgraceful loneliness. By recognizing and expressing empathy for other people, we come to accept our own fallibility.