My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.
Interpretation
Self-love and self-care are essential for well-being and personal happiness.
This quote by Diane Von Furstenberg emphasizes the importance of self-relationship as the foundation of personal happiness. By recognizing oneself as a best friend, it encourages individuals to prioritize self-care and self-acceptance, which ultimately leads to a stronger, healthier relationship with oneself and a better connection with others.
In practice
In a motivational speech about self-improvement and personal growth.
There's design, and there's art. Good design is total harmony. There's no better designer than nature - if you look at a branch or a leaf, it's perfect. It's all function. Art is different. It's about emotion. It's about suffering and beauty - but mostly suffering!
The little black dress is the true friend...she travels with you...is patient and constant...you go to her when you don't know where else to go and she is ALWAYS reliable and timeless.
One of the most important things about fashion is to dress as well as you can, look as attractive as you can, and at the same time be comfortable with yourself. Be easy about your clothes; forget about them.
All women are strong. My mother survived Auschwitz, and fear wasn't an option when we were growing up. If we were afraid of the dark, we were put into the closet until we weren't.
You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
A challenging economy is always good for design. It unites necessity and functionality. You are forced to be creative with poor materials.
A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.
Insistence on truth can come into play when one party practices untruth or injustice. Only then can love be tested. True friendship is put to the test only when one party disregards the obligation of friendship.
A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go.
The act of quiet nighttime talking, illustrates for me more than anything else the curious alchemy of companionship.
Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
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