“A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror.” – Ken Keyes
‘“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 Ravi Shankar
“I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.” – Louise Hay
“My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.” – Shakti Gawain
“She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.” – Anais Nin
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Gustav Jung
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
“Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.” – Tina Fey
“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. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren’t attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.” – Queen Latifah
“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.” — Buddha
“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
“Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?” — Brigham Young
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” — Lucille Ball
“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” — Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers)
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.” — Andrew Matthews
“People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.” — Elizabeth Gaskell
“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” — M. Scott Peck
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.” — Harvey Fierstein
“Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” — Malcolm S. Forbes
“Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” — Louise L. Hay
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” — William James
“You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” — Diane Von Furstenberg
“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.” — Robert Hand
“One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” — Michael J. Fox
Loving yourself makes it easier to love others. You can’t truly love another until you know how to love yourself. – Anon
You were born with a right to be happy. Self-love is respecting and practicing that right for your happiness and wellbeing. – Anon
Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept. – Anna Taylor
Those who love themselves know to set limits and say no to activities and relationships that drain them physically, emotionally and spiritually. – Anon
Self love is not selfish love. You can love yourself while also loving others. It’s not a zero-sum game. – Anon
To love yourself fully, you have to forgive yourself first. Once you make peace with your past, you’ll find a more lovable self in the present. – Anon
Loving yourself is like being a great friend to yourself. Always remember you are that one friend who will never leave you – so why not be your own BFF (best friend forever)? – Anon
To love yourself more, you need to set yourself free from any conditions. True self-love is unconditional. – Anon
Self-love is rising above the perfectionist standards you have set for yourselves. It is accepting you are human and make mistakes just like any other. So start being real, and drop being perfect. – Sandy Roy
When you compare yourself to others, you actually suffocate your ability to love yourself. – Anon
Tell them what you feel they must respect.
You’ll have more inner stability and self-sabotage less.
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
“Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. ”
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.”
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
“Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.”
“If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”
“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.”
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
“When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.”
“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.”
“When you adopt the viewpoint that there is nothing that exists that is not part of you, that there is no one who exists who is not part of you, that any judgment you make is self-judgment, that any criticism you level is self-criticism, you will wisely extend to yourself an unconditional love that will be the light of the world.”
“The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”