Quotes on Love My Self

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.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

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.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

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

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

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.

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.

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.

Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.