To those in need …
Friday, March 14th, 2008Self-acceptance comes
from meeting life’s challenges vigorously. Don’t numb yourself to your
trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from
your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems,
but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in
denial, but in victory.
Without self-confidence
we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this
imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By
thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
It’s surprising how
many people go through life without ever recognizing that their
feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings
toward themselves, and if you’re not comfortable within yourself, you
can’t be comfortable with others.
A bar of iron costs $5,
made into horseshoes its worth is $12, made into needles its worth is
$3500, made into balance springs for watches, its worth is $300, 000.
Your own value is determined also by what you are able to make of
yourself.
You do not need to be
loved, not at the cost of yourself. The single relationship that is
truly central and crucial in a life is the relationship to the self. Of
all the people you will know in a lifetime, you are the only one you
will never lose.
There is no use
whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot
push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.
