H.O.P.E

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Self Acceptance Lesson 101

“I don’t know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, ‘Well, if I’d known better I’d have done better,’ that’s all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, 'I’m sorry,’ and then you say to yourself, 'I’m sorry.’ If we all hold on to the mistake, we can’t see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can’t see what we’re capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one’s own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that’s rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don’t have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.”
― Maya Angelou

Been doing loads of thinking lately. And maybe some of the thinking might not even lead me anywhere .. But who cares right ? These thoughts just come and go so fast that I don’t even have the time to digest them sometimes. But , mind over matter isn’t it? Dedicated to all the thoughts that’s in my mind and the people that this might come in handy. Remember to always love yourself ! XX

spiritualinspiration: “ If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14) ”

spiritualinspiration:

If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)

(via specialagentofthelamb)

A woman is measured by the things she cannot control. By the way her body curves, or doesn’t. By where she is flat, straight or round. She is measured by 36-24-36. Inches, age, and numbers. By all the outside things that never measure up to who she is on the inside. And so if a woman is to be measured, let her be measured by the things she can control. By who she is and who she is trying to become. Because as every woman knows, measurements are statistics…and statistics lie.

—Unknown (via shetakesflight)

(Source: the-healing-nest, via insight-inspiration)