Your purpose in life is not to love yourself but to love being yourself.

If you 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.

If your goal is to love being yourself, then your focus is directed outward towards life, on living and making decisions based on what brings you pleasure and fulfillment.

Be the subject, not the object. It doesn’t matter what you think of yourself. You are experiencing life. Life is not experiencing you.

Thank you this is the first post about self love that hasn’t made me want to throw things

Andy Smith

Abbazia di San Michele Arcangelo, (XI - XVI secc.), Borgo di Terra Murata, Procida, Napoli.

healthy love exists and it’s worth being patient for

sightseeing in Italy by  nadezhdakozyreva

This is it: this is your sign. You’re brand new, refreshed, empowered to change. Your calmer, softer times are coming. Your confidence, your happiness, your bliss, is arriving. Self acceptance is easier, and taking care of yourself is no longer a chore, but something you look forward to. You start to feel replenished - you’re *you* again - and the next chapter of your happier life begins now.

Mac Miller in Chile (2018)

Photographed by Justin Boyd.

artist: brunna mancuso

Viola wears a Michael Kors Collection sweater and slipdress in W Magazine.

Temple of Asclepius (Aesculapius): Villa Borghese Gardens, Rome.

Ratatouille (2007) dir. Brad Bird

That moment where you can literally feel yourself entering a new phase of your life and you’re excited cause you know you’re gonna experience major growth.

italian moodboard based on @phasiion’s archive

LAURA HARRIER for the EGR / Monica Sordo jewelry capsule © Drew Escriva

Photo by Skylar Kang from Pexels