L.O.V.E. Y.O.U.R.S.E.L.F.

To love yourself means to accept yourself as you are and to come to terms with those aspects of yourself that you cannot change. It means to have self-respect,  a positive self-image, and unconditional self-acceptance.

Needless to say, it does not mean being arrogant, conceited or thinking that you are better than anyone else. It means having a healthy regard for yourself knowing that you are a worthy human being.

It is important to remind ourselves that no one is perfect. We all have strengths and weaknesses and we certainly possess the resources to work on improving ourselves.

Each of us is unique and has specific talents and abilities to offer. We are all here, in the words of Walt Whitman, "to contribute a verse". 

In order to appreciate yourself it is up to you to discover what makes you unique and to further develop those talents. We have a responsibility to ourselves to do so.

You cannot sit around and wait for approval from others. Work on accepting yourself. You are the only "you" that you have. It is in your best interests to be the best you can be.

Until you love yourself, you will not be able to love anyone else. You can only love another to the degree that you do yourself.

HOW DO YOU LOVE YOURSELF

You do so by investing in and working on your personal growth and development. You work on being the best you. You understand that you are human, but you acknowledge that you have the potential and spiritual capability to rise above whatever conditions and obstacles are put in your path. 

When you love yourself you endeavor to take care of yourself physically, mentally and emotionally. You take care to look and feel your best by nurturing your body, mind and spirit.

Conversely, if you don't love yourself enough, start taking care of your body, mind, and spirit. You will not only become more self-aware, you will generate feelings of worth and accomplishment.

YOUR BODY

You take care of your body by eating well, exercising and getting plenty of rest. There are many wonderful books available that can help you learn what types of food and exercise are good for you and your particular body type. 

  YOUR MIND

Your mind needs nourishment and exercise too. Don't take it for granted. Stimulate it by learning about new and interesting things. Keeping your mind active helps prevent certain old age diseases such as Alzheimer's and dementia. Keeping the neural connections of your mind active helps maintain memory and brain functions at optimum levels.

YOUR SPIRIT

If you take care of your mind and body but neglect your spirit, you will lack balance and feel that something is missing in your life. Taking care of your spirit rejuvenates you, and helps you deal with the daily stresses and challenges of everyday life.

When you love yourself, you invest in your personal growth and development. You endeavor to be the best that you can be, and you strive to achieve your potential.

HAPPINESS QUOTES

Hi Folks,


Wondering what's happiness about? You can be happy. Right at this moment. It's your choice. Happiness is not something that we chase after endlessly. It's within you. Many people are seeking for happiness and the harder you search for happiness, the more it seems to elude you.You can choose to smile at someone and be happy. You can choose to look at the flowers, trees and listen to the birds' singing and be happy. You can choose to help a kid in some way and be happy. Or you can simply lay back, relax and be happy. There's really countless ways to be happy.Let these happiness quotes give you a better idea of what happiness means. 

HAPPINESS QUOTES

If you want to be happy, be.

~Lev Tolstoy

Happiness is never stopping to think if you are.

~Palmer Sondreal

Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.

 ~Robert Anthony

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

~Mark Twain

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.

~Edith Wharton

Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place. But there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.

~E.L. Konigsburg

Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.

~Cynthia Nelms

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. 
~Robertson Davies

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

~Norm Papernick

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

~Fyodor Dostoevsky

What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

~Colette

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.

~James Openheim

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

~John Barrymore

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

~H. Jackson Browne

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness. Poverty and wealth have both failed.

-Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard

Happiness and sadness run parallel to each other. When one takes a rest, the other one tends to take up the slack.

 ~Hazelmarie Elliott (“Mattie”)

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.

~Margaret Young

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

~St. Augustine

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

~Logan Pearsall Smith,

Pleasure is spread through the earth In stray gifts to be claimed by whoever shall find.
~William Wordsworth

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

~Nathaniel Hawthorne

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

~Abraham Lincoln

Happiness is a form of courage.

~Holbrook Jackson

Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings YOU the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.
-- David Leonhardt

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

~Christian Nestell Bovee

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

 ~Frederick Keonig

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

 ~Berke Breathed

Happiness is the soundtrack of my life.

~Grey Livingston

The secret to happiness is to put the burden of proof on unhappiness.

~Robert Brault

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

~Sydney J. Harris

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

~Janet Lane

A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery while on a detour.

~Author Unknown

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

~Dalai Lama

Happiness held is the seed; happiness shared is the flower.

-Author Unknown

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

~Lady Blessington

Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don't look at it and wish you had painted something different.
-- Author Unknown 

"Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves."

-Helen Keller

"Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude."

-Denis Waitley

Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.
-Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1.

~Author Unknown

A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.

~Bernard de Fontenelle

Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.
-Mahatma Gandhi 

A happy thought is like a seed that sows positivity for all to reap.

~Miriam Muhammad

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

~Immanuel Kant

Man must search for what is right, and let happiness come on its own.

~Johann Pestalozzi

He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.

~Henry Ward Beecher

Happiness is the feeling you're feeling when you want to keep feeling it.

~Author Unknown

Joy is a flower that blooms when you do.

~Author Unknown

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

~Booth Tarkington

Jumping for joy is good exercise.

 ~Author Unknown

Happiness is distraction from the human tragedy.

~J.M. Reinoso

Happiness is... usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.

~Thomas Szasz

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

~Ernest Dimnet

Happiness is a conscious choice, not an automatic response.

~Mildred Barthe