Self love is key to happiness and well being of one-self.
Self love is the complete acceptance of who you are and what you are. An admiration of oneself. It is a confident, caring, and warm feeling felt within oneself. loving yourself doesn’t have to be defined by your day to day ultimate reward or achievements, but it is thus an unconditional support or basic necessity, a fundamental positive value that leads to one’s happiness, or inner peace.
It is a typical belief that self-love is selfish, but I bet to disagree. – And most individuals have flawed in regards for ones own self and well being. This behavior implies that their ability to love themselves is based on, or subject to them seeking love elsewhere, or them being objectively ‘good’ or ‘successful’ in what they do; Which isn’t suppose to be.
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws,
you can love other people so much better.
And that makes you so happy.
– Kristin Chenoweth
I personally can’t love me less. My well being and happiness is of top priority and so should every one’s. Even in relationships, my own well being and happiness is paramount, so is yours reading this. – This doesn’t mean you neglect your partner, but when you truly love yourself, only then can you love another without inflicting pain on them.
Here is a brilliant quote about seeking love;
Your task is not to seek for Love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself, that you have built against love.
– Rumi
Am also of the notion that; in a love relationship, you should only/firstly seek love within yourself and NOT from your partner.
Because when you SEEK LOVE from others, you loose control of your will to love, who you are, and your self esteem. And NOTE THAT; all you do throughout such relationship is only to please your partner at every point in time, disregarding yourself, and continually reducing yourself worth…. ‘So what happens then! When your partner/spouse refuses to give you the love you seek for???’
Self-love doesn’t have to be;
“that love that shuts out everyone else, and it shouldn’t be of an excessive self pride”. But simply the love that reminds you to VALUE, RESPECT, APPRECIATE WHO YOU ARE, WHAT YOU ARE and ALL THAT YOU HAVE.
It is a fact and self love is too important for one to neglect. Love yourself, Know what makes you happy and stop sucking up to others idea of living your life. “The more you love yourself, the less nonsense you tolerate.”
This is an amazing post! Self love really is important to have even when forming loving relationships with others. I agree with you that self love is not selfish… in fact, it’s necessary.
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Thank you…. I couldn’t agree more. Selflove is necessary.
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self love includes caring for one’s self, respecting ur self and having a sense of self worth. indeed selflove is necessary, thanks @ ojs pride, keep it up 👍
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Thank for reading 😘
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A lot of good advice there and something I struggle with for lots of reasons.
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Thanks for reading.
Sure, there are lots of reasons people struggle to love themselves… But you’ve got to understand that selflove is the key to your own happiness, and we all deserve happiness.
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This post is really Awesome ❤…Respecting and valuing who we are and what we have is important…Thanks a lot for this post 👍🙂.
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Thanks for reading
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Great post! Don’t look for validation from others, find it within… 💗
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Yea… Am glad you stopped by!
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Me too! Wonderful blog!☀️
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Never knew self love entails all that
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Am glad you read it.
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Yeah. Thanks for that.
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Wonderful post dear… Self love is of utmost importance.
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Thanks you 😆
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You are welcome dear
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this is an excellent post, very well written with lots of wisdom and good quotes!
With self love we don’t tolerate nonsense and we give a more selfless love, as in not grasping to our partner, needing to seek fulfilment through them….
https://arousedblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/24/love
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Thank you so much for reading…. Glad you find it inspiring.
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it totally agrees with my sentiments and we have a very different writing style so we are saying similar things in different ways … nice to meet a like minded person 🙂
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Yea… So right!
Glad we met🤗
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me too 🙂
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It is indeed our journey, and your Rumi quote said it perfectly ‘Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself, that you have built against love.’. And our fears does indeed take us on that journey of ‘conditional love’ so that we will, in understanding them, finally let them go and be in that incredible place that unconditional love is.
We cannot know one without the other, like only being able to fully appreciate happiness if we have experienced sadness too…and on through all of our emotions.
A great post dear lady, may we experience it all to find our way home 😀❤️🙏🏽
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Yes, may we experienced it all….
I’m glad it resonated well with you. Thanks for reading.
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And thank you for sharing 😀❤️🙏🏽
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hey Mark, you have a beautiful page and posts…but unfortunately, The likes button wasn’t responding when I tried
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Yes thank you dear lady, I have had quite a few problems where likes won’t work, I can’t comment on other sites and others cannot comment on mine. And in some cases I can comment but the next time it refuses, and I am not doing anything different so I can only assume some sort of conflict on the server. It is a frustrating thing for quite a few users but there doesn’t seem to be an answer. I think WordPress may have to redesign their baby as it isn’t just me, there are many in the same boat. I think many may drift away if it can’t hold its light up for us to see. But I thank you for letting me know 😀❤️🙏🏽
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oh dear, really sorry about that. I hope it gets resolved soon.
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