The only way to truly love anyone or anything else is by loving yourself first, and knowing you are beautiful, brilliant, worthy and talented in your own right is essential. But if this is as deeply as we look, I believe we will always come up empty handed in the end when it comes to confidence and self-love.
I BELIEVE IT IS OUR HEARTS, THE WAY WE LIVE OUR LIVES & WHAT WE DO FOR OTHERS THAT IS TRULY WHERE OUR POWER IS, OUR CONFIDENCE LIES, AND OUR STRENGTH IS FOUND.
I am not perfect, and I've learned to accept that fact while also not just accepting, by embracing, my flaws. Years ago, I stopped comparing myself, stopped trying to find ways to change, or hide, the physical things I didn't like about myself. Now in my early thirties, I don't even see my "flaws" as such anymore, but rather what makes me, me. This has been one of the most freeing attitudes that I have adopted in my life. But beyond our appearance, it is also important, and difficult, to accept and be comfortable with the decisions and the mistake we have made, as this is huge part of loving ourselves. I am happy to be at a place now where I can love myself for the woman that I was, who I currently am, and the woman I will grow to me- in all my forms- emotionally, physically, intellectually, and beyond.
But at the end of the day, my confidence and deep sense of self has had little to do with surface attributes like my appearance or my intelligence or abilities. Instead, it is my honesty and my compassion that I take the most pride in and which provides me with the most confidence. And when I am giving back to the world and doing for others, this is when I love myself most.
I found true confidence, my strength and my meaning through living honestly, purely, compassionately, charitably, vulnerably, mindfully and with a rock solid moral compass that never fails me. And this is the type of self-love that is eternal and indestructible.
I am not perfect, and I've learned to accept that fact while also not just accepting, by embracing, my flaws. Years ago, I stopped comparing myself, stopped trying to find ways to change, or hide, the physical things I didn't like about myself. Now in my early thirties, I don't even see my "flaws" as such anymore, but rather what makes me, me. This has been one of the most freeing attitudes that I have adopted in my life. But beyond our appearance, it is also important, and difficult, to accept and be comfortable with the decisions and the mistake we have made, as this is huge part of loving ourselves. I am happy to be at a place now where I can love myself for the woman that I was, who I currently am, and the woman I will grow to me- in all my forms- emotionally, physically, intellectually, and beyond.
But at the end of the day, my confidence and deep sense of self has had little to do with surface attributes like my appearance or my intelligence or abilities. Instead, it is my honesty and my compassion that I take the most pride in and which provides me with the most confidence. And when I am giving back to the world and doing for others, this is when I love myself most.
I found true confidence, my strength and my meaning through living honestly, purely, compassionately, charitably, vulnerably, mindfully and with a rock solid moral compass that never fails me. And this is the type of self-love that is eternal and indestructible.
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