Quotes on Self Loving

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.

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.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

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

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.

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.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

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.

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.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.