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Irvin D. Yalom
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Love's Executioner and Other
That just seems to be the way we're built.
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Bell Hooks
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All About Love: New Visions
One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others. There was a time when I felt lousy about my over-forty body, saw myself as too fat, too this, or too that. Yet I fantasized about finding a lover who would give me the gift of being loved as I am. It is silly, isn't it, that I would dream of someone else offering to me the acceptance and affirmation I was withholding from myself. This was a moment when the maxim "You can never love anybody if you are unable to love yourself" made clear sense. And I add, "Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.
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John Fowles
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The Magus
There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being.
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Gregory Maguire
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Wicked: The Life and Times of
Animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.
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Bijou Hunter
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Snake Charmer
DONOVAN: Now I understand my strengths. Because of Journey, I no longer waste time pretending to be anyone besides the guy in the mirror.
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Maureen Brady
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Beyond Survival: A Writing
Because we were treated neglectfully and abusively in our young years-when we most needed self-love to be mirrored-it was difficult to hold onto…We take up the challenge of learning to love ourselves, through our highs & our lows, when we are finding acceptance from others and when we are being closed out and rejected.
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Mitch Albom
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The Five People You Meet in
You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.
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J.K. Rowling
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The Casual Vacancy
The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.
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Joan Didion
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On Self-Respect
Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.
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Arundhati Roy
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The God of Small Things
She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for {him} was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.
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Sena Jeter Naslund
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Abundance
Debería tener la capacidad de ser feliz conmigo misma, de estar satisfecha con lo que soy. No como reina, sino con lo que soy.
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