One of my favorite things to do is to love, no matter what. To risk being acted upon by forces outside my control. To have a tea and sit and think and read, about all this: “One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others. There was a time when I felt lousy about my body, saw myself as too this, or too that. Yet I fantasized about finding a lover who would give me the gift of being loved as I am. It is silly, isn’t it, that I would dream of someone else offering to me the acceptance and affirmation I was withholding from myself. This was a moment when the maxim ‚You can never love anybody if you are unable to love yourself‘ finally made clear sense.“ True words surrounded by nice tableware made by @iittala / Advertising  #iittalla with their  #ultimathule