“When we see ourselves as we truly are and accept ourselves, we build the necessary foundation for self-love”. Bell Hooks.
“Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust”.
“Love is an action, never simply a feeling”.
“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.”
― Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Memories of Bukit Batok Park@Rose Robertson photo, 2023.
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