The first step towards confidence is not being afraid to be ugly. Once you get over the fear of being unattractive and stop equating beauty with other good things in life, like friends, love and happiness, it's a lot easier to love being yourself unconditionally. Your job is not to sit around and be pretty and easy on everyone else's eyes. Your ......
Your purpose in life is not to love yourself but to love *being* yourself. If your goal is to love yourself, then your focus is directed inward toward yourself, and you end up constantly watching yourself from the outside, disconnected, trying to summon the "correct" feelings towards yourself or fashion yourself into something you can approve of. ......
Like every time you trip and fall, instead of saying "I'm just a disaster human," say "I'm the epitome of grace and beauty." Or like, when you draw a picture you're not 100% happy with, instead of saying "my art is trash," say something like "you know, I think it's time for we replace the Mona Lisa." When you do that you get to make a joke, but y......
Do not be afraid of being ugly