SELF
LOVE AND ACCEPTANCE
By Rebecca Masina
Do
you know that before you can love and accept others you firstly need to love
and accept your self? How do you normally accept your self as you are and learn
to deal with the challenges that you are and will be facing?. We all have our
own methods of dealing with things. The best way is to accept the person you
are and be ready to change if that’s good for your being.
Self love is very
important. Love and respect your self. Most important respect your body as it
is the temple of God.
“We
are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words
are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far”- Swami Vivekananda
When it
comes to self love, one should consider taking care of their selves by
being clean and making the right decisions in life, seeking help where they
seem to struggle. there's nothing wrong with asking for help.
The
biggest struggle in life is the struggle to know, embrace, and accept
ourselves, with all of our faults and imperfections. Many of us were
raised by parents who were themselves
victims - who were not taught to see their own worth, or who were not really
seen by their own parents. Our grandparents generation faced massive trauma and
upheaval due to the Second World War and the Great Depression. The focus was on
survival and minimizing the damage, rather than on love, appreciation and
intimacy. Individuals and families today face the challenges of long commutes,
longer working hours, and global economic uncertainty. These stresses can beat
us down, or make us build walls around ourselves that are so dense that even
our dearest friends, partners, spouses and children can't get in. Yet, there is
another way.
Know
Yourself
1.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.- Carl Gustav Jung
2.You
are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are. -Yogi Bhajan
3.We
are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our
adventure to discover our own special light.-Mary Dunbar
4.What
lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies
within us.
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
5.Everything
worth having costs something, and the price of true love is self-knowledge.
Be
True to Yourself
1.Above
all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself
out of it. - Unknown
2.Follow
that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own. - Carl Gustav Jung
3.The
hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make
you be somebody else.
-E.
E. Cummings
4.Remember
always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an
obligation to be one.
-Eleanor
Roosevelt
5.To
be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is
the greatest accomplishment.”
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Respect Yourself
1.The
most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself
- Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and
Being Free
2.The
only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself
pull me down anymore. C. JoyBell C.
3.Most
of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
4.Act
as if what you do makes a difference. It does-William James
5.It
isn't what they call you, it's what you answer to-W.C. Fields
Value
Yourself
1.Too
many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are-Malcolm
S. Forbes
2.Scarcity
of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or
influence-Gary Zukav
3.The
deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”
- William James
Accept
Yourself
1.To
be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You
need to accept yourself-Thich Nhat Hanh
2.Our
entire life … consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.”
- Jean Anouih
3.I’ve
finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?”
- Golden Hawn
4.Your
problem is you’re … too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
- Ram Dass
5.To
accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our
perfections-Sandra Bierig
6.Believing
in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and
balanced life.- Ellen Sue Stern
Love
Yourself
1.You
must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully
being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy
2.You
yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love &
affection. -Buddha
3.You
can’t build joy on a feeling of self-loathing. -Ram Dass
4.It's
not your job to like me...it's MINE! -Byron Katie
5.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. - Rumi, thirteenth century Sufi
poet
CREDIT…
The
Mindful Self-Express .The mind-body experiment.
by
Melanie Greenberg, Ph.D.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-mindful-self-express/201210/the-50-best-quotes-self-love
