58 quotes
“Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”
— William Shakespeare
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
— Buddha
“You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection”
— Sharon Salzberg
“I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness, the astonishing light of your own being.”
— Hafiz
“Don't wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.”
— Luther Burbank
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
— Unknown
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
— Lucille Ball
“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 problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”
— Ram Dass
“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
— Charles Bukowski
“Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give.”
— Karl Lagerfeld
“Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
— Christopher Robin
“Self-love, self-respect, self-worth: There’s a reason they all start with ‘self.’ You can’t find them in anyone else.”
“Becoming acquainted with yourself is a price well worth paying for the love that will really address you.”
— Marianne Williamson
“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
“Becoming acquainted with yourself is a price well worth paying for the love that will really address your needs.”
— Daphne Rose Kingma
“Loving yourself isn't vanity. It's sanity.”
— Katrina Mayer
“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
“Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.”
— Aberjhani
“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
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”
— Brene Brown
“Self-love seems so often unrequited.”
— Anthony Powell
“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
“The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.”
— Goldie Hawn
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.”
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.”
“The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Peaceful people attract peaceful things.”
— Deepak Chopra
“You yourself as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.”
“The body is not an apology it is a site of radical self-love”
— Sonya Renee Taylor
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”
— Walt Whitman
“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.”
— Wayne Dyer
“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
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
— Oscar Wilde
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
— Michel de Montaigne
“The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.”
— Rita Mae Brown
“We must fall in love with ourselves. I don't like myself. I'm crazy about myself.”
— Mae West
“Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.”
“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”
— Robert Morley
“The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself.”
— Bell Hooks
“You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
— Louise L. Hay
“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.
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we will ever do.”
“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you are alone with”
“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.”
“You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself.”
“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
“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
“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.”
— Sally Field
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we will ever do”
“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
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do”
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
— Judy Garland
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