If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues. -Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
As people it is natural for us to be envious and spiteful against people who seem to be able to do nothing wrong in their own lives. Knowing this is so, we have to be willing to sacrifice a bit sometimes when it comes to giving ourselves praise so that we can make connections with other people based on who we really are instead of just connecting with people because of what we have accomplished.
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
If you go through life seeking to please everyone but yourself, you will never be pleased with your life. There are so many afflicted with such good hearts in this world that they refuse to see what their life could really be because of the fear of losing someone's favor.
If you will love someone more than they deserve, expect you'll be hurt more than you deserve.
When a person rejects the love that is offered to them often it is because they are on guard and don't believe that they deserve that they are given. Many times the love we could receive is certainly more monumental than we love we allow to filter into our lives because we are attempting to protect ourselves from being hurt.
Love me for who I am not who you want me to be. Don't make plans to try and change me.
There are so many people out there who would love for you to act in a manner that flatters and suits them the best, instead of loving you for who you really are.
Don't ever change yourself to impress someone, because they should be impressed that you don't change to please others.
In order for a person to truly care about who you are as a person they must be willing to accept who you are at your heart's deepest levels. It is easy to love someone that tries to please everyone else, whereas it is much more difficult to love someone who is only his or her self at all times. This in no way should stop anyone from being or acting as themselves because one should only want love or someone to care about them if it is a genuine love.
The best way to escape from the past is not to avoid or forget it, but to accept and forgive it.
One of the foremost approaches to learning in life is to make new decisions based off of previous experiences. It starts when we are young, many of us may have tried to draw near or even touch a hot stove not knowing that we would get burned, and then from that experience learn to stay away from touching hot burning stoves with no protection. This is an example of how we use our past mistakes to determine what decisions to make in our future. It is imperative that we draw from our experiences so that we won't get burned again.
