"If you make friends with yourself you'll never be alone." - Maxwell Maltz

How can we expect to unconditionally love others when we can't unconditionally love ourselves? If we're always expecting love from external sources, we'll never feel full; we'll never feel full because we're missing the most essential filler that will leak out that love: self-love.

Forget self-esteem. Forget deserve. Love for ourselves should be quite the priority, even when we don't think we deserve it.

It's fine to be upset with yourself though, and be a little unsatisfied but never lose that grasp onto yourself. If that's not your case, then in general, remember that we are totally allowed to love ourselves but also have the urge to get better.

In it for the long haul. In it for the time.

- teriyakkii_1203