self-acceptance

The odds are, you highly underestimate how awesome you are. Stop doing that.

Yes, it__ okay to be afraid. It__ okay to hesitate before plunging from your comfort zone.It__ okay to have scars, pimples, insecurities, moles, cellulite, tremors, debts, redness, regrets, loneliness and uncertainty.It__ okay to have no idea what you__e doing.It__ okay to struggle with some things, while enjoying others. It__ okay to find joy in the beauty in life, even after a great loss. It__ okay to change. It__ okay to move on. And it__ okay to fear changing and moving on.Wherever you are, and whatever you are experiencing, is okay. You didn__ invent the universe and you didn__ invent the human condition.You don__ need permission to live whatever you__e living, even if it looks and feels different from anyone else__ life around you. And it__ okay to feel like you need that permission anyway.

Buy or borrow self-improvement books, but don't read them. Stack them around your bedroom and use them as places to rest bowls of cookies.Watch exercise shows on television, but don't do the exercises. Practice believing that the benefit lies in imagining yourself doing the exercises.Don't power walk. Saunter slowly in the sun, eating chocolate, and carry a blanket so you can take a nap.

One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others. There was a time when I felt lousy about my over-forty body, saw myself as too fat, too this, or too that. Yet I fantasized about finding a lover who would give me the gift of being loved as I am. It is silly, isn't it, that I would dream of someone else offering to me the acceptance and affirmation I was withholding from myself. This was a moment when the maxim "You can never love anybody if you are unable to love yourself" made clear sense. And I add, "Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.

Insecurity is the lack of trust in your abilities and worth. When you enter into a secured state of consciousness, everything that helped boost your confidence will return.

When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Make peace with yourself before you move forward. Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Self-love is essential. Until you can learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.

I can do this_ I can start over. I can save my own life and I__ never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.

Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.

Before you chase success, status, power, wealth fame or love; first fall in love with yourself - for the person you'll be if and when you get there is still the same. Success will be a painful path and an empty trophy without self acceptance, self worth or if littered with self hate.

Knowing trees, I came to realize, understand and appreciate the act of patience.

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.