You can only learn to love yourself by loving and cherishing life. Learning to love yourself can make our lives more fulfilling, more beautiful; making our souls more healthy and whole.

Learning to love yourself is not indulging in oneself, it is about independence. There will always be times when there is no one there to monitor us, mentor us. Even our dearest parents or our closest friends cannot be by our side forever. The love and concern we are currently showered with can always be easily taken away. Hence, we have to learn how to find out own happiness, so that we would not end up as a blade of dried grass floating helplessly in the wind, but a tree standing proudly against it.

Learning to love yourself is not about spoiling oneself, but about encouraging oneself. It allows us to learn to give ourselves lovely stalk of flower when everything seems lost, giving ourselves a radiant smile on our faces, to embrace hope and to persevere on towards a better tomorrow. Loving oneself is not shameful, it is an honour. It is not based on ignorance, but based on our deep understanding of life's value and importance. It can allow us to construct our own palace when our soul seems empty, transforming it into a haven for spirit.

Only by learning to love yourself, can you truly know how to love this world.

P.S. some parts sound funny, cos I translated this from a passage that was in chinese lol