Quotes on Self Love

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

I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.

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.

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.

That love of self, which the world advocates, is a thousand times more dangerous than any poison.

One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well -but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

Love is acceptance. When you love someone . . . you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves.

There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.

There is nothing Madison Avenue can give us that will make us more beautiful women. We are beautiful because God created us that way.

Women are always being tested ... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.

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.

I am so beautiful, sometimes people weep when they see me. And it has nothing to do with what I look like really, it is just that I gave myself the power to say that I am beautiful, and if I could do that, maybe there is hope for them too. And the great divide between the beautiful and the ugly will cease to be. Because we are all what we choose.

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

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

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.

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.

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

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

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.