self-love

When your sense of self and happiness comes from within and isn't a roller coaster ride dependent on others or circumstances, you approach life differently. You make better choices. You draw to you the people and situations that matter. The others, they fall away.

When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling with ruby, moistened lips once her cup of Death is welcome sipped.

It__ all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.

Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy.

Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.

When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in.

Happily Single" is recognizing that you don__ need or want to be rescued from your life by a handsome prince because your life is pretty awesome, as is.

We__e hungry for acceptance__rom ourselves even more than from others__or love, for fulfillment, for peace. We__e hungry for a life we think we don__ deserve or can__ have, for the person we know we can be if only we__ give ourselves the chance.

If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part of his person, which may not happen to be so beautiful as it ought to be. He must, therefore, guard particularly against that self-love, or too good opinion of his own person, and study by every means to acquire the knowledge of what is most beautiful, and of his own defects, that he may adopt the one and avoid the other.

He threw all his affection at them and hoped that some of it would stick, maybe even come back to him, though if it didn't he gave it anyway; he gave it more, even, because everyone had something that needed to come out.

Be what you are. Do what you love. Speak what you feel. Don__ hide your humanity. Celebrate it. Embrace it.That is how you change the world.

When I was a young philosopher, I asked a senior colleague, Pat Suppes (then and now a famous philosopher of science and an astute student of human nature), what the secret of happiness was. Instead of giving me advice, he made a rather droll observation about what a lot of people who were happy with themselves seem to have done, namely:1. Take a careful inventory of their shortcomings and flaws2. Adopt a code of values that treats these things as virtues3. Admire themselves for living up to itBrutal people admire themselves for being manly; compulsive pedants admire themselves for their attention to detail; naturally selfish and mean people admire themselves for their dedication to helping the market reward talent and punish failure, and so on.

these "sometimey" feelings are welcomed to stay... reminiscent of ying and yang: they need eachother to help me get through the good & bad days

The search for the soul mate, the perfect partner to complete you, is a bit like searching for the perfect food when you__e got a giant ulcer in your stomach. No matter what you find, it will never be good enough.

I will never be scared to love me.I am a force to be reckoned with.I am beautiful.

changing lives started with changing my own.

How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!

No other love on earth would ever equate to the unconditional one that could come from you to you.