Quotes on I Love Myself

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.

Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to receive from someone else.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

There is just one life for each of us: our own.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.

When one is pretending the entire body revolts.

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.

Instead of announcing what you are about to tell is interesting, make it so.

The amount of love, kindness, patience I have for others is is directly proportional to how much love I have for myself, because we cannot give others what we ourselves do not have. And, unsurprisingly, the amount of love, respect, support, and compassion I receive from others is also in direct proportion to how much I love myself.

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.

I love myself, therefore, I behave in a loving way to all people for I know that that which I give out returns to me multiplied.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.