54 quotes
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
— Oscar Wilde
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
— Buddha
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
— Lucille Ball
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.”
“The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.”
— Goldie Hawn
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
— Rumi
“You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
— Louise L. Hay
“Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.”
— Karl Lagerfeld
“The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”
— C. JoyBell C.
“You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself.”
— Geneen Roth
“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”
— William Shakespeare
“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”
— Robert Morley
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”
— Veronica A. Shoffstall
“It's not your job to like me - it's mine.”
— Byron Katie
“I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I'm either going to love me or hate me.”
— Mary J. Blige
“Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.”
— Parker Palmer
“Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
“Becoming acquainted with yourself is a price well worth paying for the love that will really address your needs.”
— Daphne Rose Kingma
“The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.”
— Rita Mae Brown
“Self-love seems so often unrequited.”
— Anthony Powell
“You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Loving yourself isn't vanity. It's sanity.”
— Katrina Mayer
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”
— Walt Whitman
“Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.”
— Aberjhani
“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”
“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.”
— Wayne Dyer
“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
— Judy Garland
“It's not your job to like me, it's mine.”
“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
— Charles Bukowski
“Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
— Christopher Robin
“If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.”
— Barbara De Angelis
“Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
— Ram Dass
“The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself.”
— Bell Hooks
“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.”
— Sally Field
“We must fall in love with ourselves. I don't like myself. I'm crazy about myself.”
— Mae West
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.”
— Brene Brown
“Self-love, self-respect, self-worth: There’s a reason they all start with ‘self.’ You can’t find them in anyone else.”
— Unknown
“Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.”
— Luther Burbank
“Becoming acquainted with yourself is a price well worth paying for the love that will really address you.”
— Marianne Williamson
“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance”
“You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.”
— Jane Roberts
“Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself.”
“Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give.”
“Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.”
— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else, is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.”
— Bryant McGill
“A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time.”
— Andrew Matthews
