The One Ingredient Necessary For Accepting Yourself | Thought Catalog
I think i need to remember this - not that I am not accepting myself but I feel I could accept myself more.
Particular segments that I like best:
"Self-love is not how you feel about yourself. It’s what you do for yourself. You can only love yourself by doing, not thinking. Execute feats of love, feats of respect, for your own benefit."
"Do work you love. Even if you make less money. Even if you disappoint others. Working a job for which you have no passion is betraying yourself, for eight hours a day. Nobody can love themselves while they subject themselves to forty hours of uninspiring work every week. If it isn’t practical to leave your current line of work just yet, start planning your escape now. That’s love. Do not resign a third of your life to someone else’s purpose. Dignity is worth any pay cut. If you don’t like your job, you are only getting better at being resentful." - I'm starting to relate to this a lot better in the past 2 weeks at work. Even more so today when I had the privilege of going back to my previous class to relief teach, because I felt so alive at work teaching this class today than what I've been doing with my current class for the past 2 months. I know I shouldn't say this but I really feel the difference and honestly, I don't like it.
"There is a choice in every moment, between acting out of love, or out of fear. At any instant, you can stop and look at the moment, and it is clear which action is which. You will make a habit out of choosing one or the other."
"You won’t be able to have respect if you do not make a habit of recognizing value. There is value in every person, object, place and moment, but you may miss it if you hold faults to be more important."
Particular segments that I like best:
"Self-love is not how you feel about yourself. It’s what you do for yourself. You can only love yourself by doing, not thinking. Execute feats of love, feats of respect, for your own benefit."
"Do work you love. Even if you make less money. Even if you disappoint others. Working a job for which you have no passion is betraying yourself, for eight hours a day. Nobody can love themselves while they subject themselves to forty hours of uninspiring work every week. If it isn’t practical to leave your current line of work just yet, start planning your escape now. That’s love. Do not resign a third of your life to someone else’s purpose. Dignity is worth any pay cut. If you don’t like your job, you are only getting better at being resentful." - I'm starting to relate to this a lot better in the past 2 weeks at work. Even more so today when I had the privilege of going back to my previous class to relief teach, because I felt so alive at work teaching this class today than what I've been doing with my current class for the past 2 months. I know I shouldn't say this but I really feel the difference and honestly, I don't like it.
"There is a choice in every moment, between acting out of love, or out of fear. At any instant, you can stop and look at the moment, and it is clear which action is which. You will make a habit out of choosing one or the other."
"You won’t be able to have respect if you do not make a habit of recognizing value. There is value in every person, object, place and moment, but you may miss it if you hold faults to be more important."