“The greatest success is successful self-acceptance.” - Ben Sweet
Self-love is impossible without self-acceptance.
As obvious as this may seem, as easy as it may be to run these words through our minds and out of our mouths, it is quite another thing to live as if we believed it. Hearing and repeating a truth are not the same as acting on it.
There is more to accepting ourselves than just saying, “I do.” When we bad mouth ourselves over every mistake or overreact to every fault and foible we find in our character, our actions are saying, “I don’t,” much louder than our words are saying the opposite. And our capacity for growth must be accepted, too. Until we come to deeply believe that improvement is not only possible but well within our grasp, we’re out of touch with our own potential. And how can we accept what we don’t know?
I can’t love what I can’t accept.