self-acceptance

Acceptance is the vessel of realization.

Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.

People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests

You think it's so easy to change yourself. You think it's so easy, but it's not True, things don't stay the same forever: couches are replaced, boys leave, you discover a song, your body becomes forever scarred. And with each of these moments you change again, your true self spinning, shifting positions - but always at last it returns to you, like a dancer on the floor. Because throughout it all you are still always, *you*: beautiful and bruised, known and unknowable. And isn't that - just you - enough?

What self-acceptance does is open up more possibilities of succeeding because you aren't fighting yourself along the way.

You are you, no one else is you, you are the right you, and the right you, is the you that you love.

Practise really seeing yourself in the mirror. This is NOT about examining yourself. This is about you looking beyond your external image to connect with your soul. Look upon yourself with complete appreciation and acceptance. You are so beautiful.

The reason most relationships fail isn__ because we haven__ found the right person. It__ because we haven__ found ourselves and we__e hoping someone can fill that void for us. They can__. No one can. Self-love is and always will be a prerequisite to every happy romance.

You know, that's what you've been doing in a way--coming out. Coming out of your room. Coming out of your house. Coming out of your shell.

The more you try, so desperately, to prove a point to get someone's approval, the more fleeting that approval might be, causing a chain of depreciation of self-esteem. Sometimes, all you need do is truly love yourself and get only the approval and acceptance of the inner self.

There is no way to genuinely, powerfully, truly love yourself while crafting a mask of perfection.

You are the most important person in your life. Your relationship with yourself defines your relationships with every other person you encounter. Celebrate yourself and celebrate all.

The most important day is the day you decide you__e good enough for you. It__ the day you set yourself free.

I have known friendship love, parental love, romantic love, family love and unrequited love in my life time, but the only love that made a difference was self love. You don't need confirmation from the world or another person that you matter. You simply do matter. When you finally believe that truth and live it then you can do amazing things with your life!

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

If you want peace, stop labeling yourself. We all label ourselves at some point. We tell ourselves these traits that make us stand out. I am a patient person. I am smart. But what happens when we fail at being what we tell ourselves we are? What if I say something really stupid? Am I now a stupid person?These labels only stand to hurt us in the future. They make us doubt ourselves and they separate us from other people. When you label yourself, you, in turn, begin labeling others. Oh, that Jane, she is so rude. And now, as you have defined her in your mind, she is rude. Regardless of 'Jane's' future actions, she is rude.Labels set parameters on the world. They limit it when the world should be impossible to define and ever-changing.So, pause before you label.

I__ nothing great. But I__ a rose_ I__ a rose whether I__ admired or not, I__ a rose whether anyone__ crazy about me or not_ Like I said, nothing great. Just a rose_ But, do you know what it means to be a rose, my friend? Being a rose means __reedom._ It means not existing by the praises of Others or not ceasing to exist by their disapproval.