Tag: Hate

This Is Why You Should Give Yourself Plenty Of Love

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Personal Development, Personal Growth
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Photo by Reto Wiezel

Always give yourself plenty of love. When you are in love with yourself, nothing else matters. It is important to love and celebrate ourselves. That is why we are here. We are not here to hate. We are here to love.

But to give out love, you must first have it. And love is not what you get from other people. It is what you give to other people. To give love to other people, you have got to be really good at loving yourself.

Barbara De Angelis said, “If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.” To give out something, you must first have it. If you don’t have love to give to others, you will find it difficult to love anyone. The question is: Are you good at loving yourself?

How You See Yourself Is How Others Will See You

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Personal Development, Personal Growth
Woman Standing in Front of a Street Art Wall
Photo by Lisa Folios

How do you see yourself? Do you see yourself as a positive person? Do you see yourself as a loser? Do you see yourself as a failure? Or do you see yourself as a powerful person?

You cannot control how other people see you. But you can control how you see yourself. It is important to believe in yourself. It is important to love yourself. It is important to live your life the way you want to live it. How you see yourself is necessary. Live your life. Don’t hide your life.

How you see yourself is important. Why is that? Because you can’t please everybody. You can’t make everybody happy. You can only make yourself happy. You do that by doing the things that really make you happy.

Eric Hoffer famously said, “It is not love of self but hatred of self which is at the root of the troubles that afflict our world. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.” The message here is: How you treat yourself is exactly how other people will treat you. How you see yourself is exactly how other people will see you. If you want to other people to treat you with love, respect, you must first treat them with love and respect.