Quotes on Loving Yourself

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

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

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.

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

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

If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person less than you love yourself, you will not really succeed in loving yourself but if you love all alike, including yourself, you will love them as one person and that person is both God and man.

Sexiness is a state of mind - a comfortable state of being. It's about loving yourself in your most unlovable moments.

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

The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.

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

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

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

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

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

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.

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer others.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.