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Welcome to LETTERS FROM LOVE
- Self-loathing is not productive and typically doesn’t result in better behavior. But if you can’t see yourself accurately, you can’t change anything, or have any impetus to change: loving yourself isn’t incompatible with believing you’re capable of more.
from Some Painful Questions We Ask Ourselves by Cate Hall
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- Self-love is the balance between accepting yourself as you are while knowing you deserve better, and then working towards it.
from Good Vibes, Good Life: How Self-Love Is the Key to Unlocking Your Greatness by Vex King
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Author and psychiatrist James Gilligan writes that the self cannot survive without love, and the self, starved of love, dies. The absence of self-love is shame, “just as cold is the absence of warmth.” Disgrace obscuring the sun
from Tattoos on the Heart_ the Power of Boundless Compassion by Gregory Boyle
Alex Dobrenko added