#unconditional

If you have realistic ideals and can generally live up to them, your self-esteem will not be threatened. If your ideals are exaggerated and you cannot reach them, your good feelings from successes may be short lived, and you may feel that you are never good enough. The continued hope for the impossible, the expectation that you will or can be unconditionally loved and adored, is not facing reality but rather holding onto an idealized image of yourself and an idealized version of what others can provide. If this is the case, your sense of self may be threatened by shame and its resulting depression, or by feelings of inadequacy for not living up to your unrealistic ideals. A better understanding of shame may help you recognize your tendency to hide what you feel from yourself and others. ↗

— Mary C. Lamia

#ideals #self-esteem #shame #unconditional-love #love

Nurturing words show that you believe in the other party's capacity to learn, change and grow. One's mind is like a computer. Every message you send goes into one of two files: discounting or nurturing. The file with the most data will direct how one sees and feels about himself or herself. Messages that nurture are based on unconditional love which must be worked at, especially if you come from a discounting family. You will need to rely on Jesus to fill the void in your life with His presence and help you learn how to love unconditionall like He loves us. ↗

— H. Norman Wright

#change

He brought out the worst in me, and was the best thing that ever happened to me. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#breakups #coco-j-ginger #friendship #i-love-him #i-love-you

The unconditional love of God leads to a life of freedom and transforms each day into a potentially wild adventure. ↗

— Randy Elrod

#unconditional-love #wildness #freedom

Unconditional love is the greatest gift of all" ~ The Soul Bearers, by Sylvia Massara ↗

— Sylvia Massara

#inspirational #love #unconditional-love #friendship

I know now, just quite how My life and love might still go on In your heart, in your mind I'll stay with you for all of time. ↗

— Alex Band

#loss #unconditional-love #life

Love gives without expectation, while hate carries an endless tally of debts. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#hate #unconditional-love #love

If pure, eternal, unconditional Love is the foundation on which you stand, even if all else falls away, you are still valuable because you are loved. ↗

— Amy Lichtenhan

#love

As to the war with Japan, the President had already received my memorandum in general as to the possibility of getting a substantial unconditional surrender from Japan which I had written before leaving Washington and which he had approved. ↗

— Henry L. Stimson

#approved #before #general #getting #had

Close both eyes see with the other one. Then we are no longer saddled by the burden of our persistent judgments our ceaseless withholding our constant exclusion. Our sphere has widened and we find ourselves quite unexpectedly in a new expansive location in a place of endless acceptance and infinite love. ↗

— Gregory Boyle

#compassion #empathy #unconditional-love #love