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Why You Should Love Yourself

It's the best decision you will make.

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Why You Should Love Yourself
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As Justin Bieber says, "Maybe you should go and love yourself." Well, you should love yourself. It will be the best decision you make.

Self-love is one of the most important aspects of an individual's life. Loving yourself results in happiness, confidence and positivity. Loving yourself is one of the best things that you can do for yourself. Once you learn to love yourself, you will learn what happiness is. Because If you can't love yourself, how are you supposed to love someone else?

Once you learn to love yourself everything else will fall into place. Once you stop forcing certain aspects of your life, everything will work out. Once you stop searching for love, and instead focus on yourself, love will find you when you are least expecting it.

Until you find that someone special, even when you do find that someone special, who else is going to be there at 3 a.m. when you're crying, shaking and wishing everything would end? Who is going to be there? The answer is you. You will have to pick yourself up and pull yourself together.

Unless you learn to love yourself, you will not be able to pull yourself together. When you have a bad day, you have to figure out how to make it better. You can't rely on others to fix it. You can only rely on yourself in the end.

In the end, the only person you can trust and ultimately rely on is yourself. You should be your own best friend. You should be capable of being alone. In fact, you should learn to be alone and enjoy being alone.

Spending time by yourself is one of the most enjoyable and relaxing things you can do. It helps you find yourself and truly realize who you are. Spending time by yourself helps you realize what you love and what you deserve.

Love yourself so that way when you do find someone and they treat you negatively you have the power to walk away. By loving yourself you will be able to stand up for yourself. You will not feel alone when you do end up walking away if you have self-love. By loving yourself you are setting standards for how others will treat you.

It is not selfish to love yourself. It is healthy and beautiful. Make your happiness a priority over anyone else's until and when that special person comes along. By loving yourself you realize that you do not need anyone but yourself. At the end of the day, all you have is yourself. Until that special person comes along, put all that effort into yourself, so you can be the best you that you can be. Ultimately, until then, be the best you can be and worry about loving yourself unconditionally, rather than how much others love you.

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