Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness.
IYANLA VANZANTFamily is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it’s the place where we find the deepest heartache.
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If you don’t ask for what you need, the need will keep getting bigger.
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It is not your duty or responsibility to change the minds of other people. The nature of their thinking is advanced or limited by their experience. In your presence, they have an opportunity to learn about you and, perhaps, to grow.
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If someone has offended you, insulted you, or disappointed you, let it go! If you are remembering all the ways you have been hurt or forgotten, let it go! Ask yourself, what good does it do for me to hold on to this?
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Criticism does not make you smarter or better than the one you are criticizing. In fact, the stuff you are critical of in others is the same stuff you don’t like about yourself.
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You will stumble at time, forget what you want, fall headfirst into your old habits and beliefs. Fear not! Always remember to be patient and loving with yourself and others because that is what God does all the time.
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I am the one I have been looking for.
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The only thing that goes on in your life is what your allow to go on in your life.
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Every day is your day if you claim it. If you wait for somebody else to make it for you, you’re going to be disappointed.
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Their issues are not your issues.
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We set the standard of how we want to be treated. Our relationships are reflections of the relationships we have with ourselves.
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We all want to be liked, loved, or needed. That is fine. What is not fine is what we are willing to do to make sure we are liked, or loved or needed. When we make the needs and wants of others a priority in our lives, we devalue ourselves.
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Lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt.
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When your life is working there will be an absence of drama.
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Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.
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When you can tell the story and it doesn’t bring up any pain, you know it is healed.
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