We try so hard to make ourselves lovable, and yet each layer of this mask puts another wall around us – a wall that keeps love out.
~ Vironika Tugaleva
Love is purely holy.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance.
~ Miguel Ruiz
The way to self-love and admiration is to behave like someone whom you love and admire.
~ Aspen Matis
When we stop looking for someone to complete us, we find completion in ourselves.
There is no love that is not self-love
~ Bangambiki Habyarimana
Love is pure. Love is divine.
If you don't love yourself, no other love can save you.
~ Shaun Roundy
Life is kinder to those who love themselves, because love attracts love and light, and repels and dispels darkness.
You can love again.
Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.
~ Portia De Rossi
I spent most of my adult life in relationships some good, some bad. It took years for me to realize that I was the common denominator in all of these relationships and I needed to love me first.
~ Sanjo Jendayi
Rags will never make fine clothing, don't put them on you.
~ Temitope Ibrahim
All hatred of others is a reflection of self-hatred. All love of others is a reflection of self-love.
~ Alan Cohen
Love does not envy, does not boast, does not delight in evil but rejoice in truth.
Love yourself and the beauty of your uniqueness.
No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one's heart better than unconditional self-love.
~ Hafiz
When you stop comparing yourself with others, you begin respecting your own uniqueness.
~ Vishwas Chavan
No amount of love from the outside can make up for the lack of self-love in one's heart.
Don't let your loyalty become your slavery.
~ Karen Salmansohn
All good things spring from Self-Love
~ N. Sophronia Crosby
My Dear Friend, Don't ever allow yourself to forget how incredibly special you are, even for a single second. Without you, the world would not be as magnificent. Let yourself remember to love again, starting with you loving you.
~ Miya Yamanouchi
To earn respect, you must earn your own self respect before you can expect others, to respect you.
~ Auliq Ice
Women are the jewels, but for them to feel that way, they must focus on enriching their body, mind and soul.
~ Linda Alfiori
We can’t hate ourselves into a version of ourselves we can love.
~ Lori Deschene
I write because it's the only thing I love that always loves me back.
~ Crystal Woods
She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
No other love on earth would ever equate to the unconditional one that could come from you to you.
changing lives started with changing my own.
~ Alexandra Elle
Focus on keeping faith and growing your roots of light so strong and deep that no one, not even yourself, can make you believe something about yourself that is not good for your soul.
~ Molly Friedenfeld
You don't have to go out your way to validate or prove your worth to anyone who doesn't see YOUR reflection when they look in the mirror.
~ Ebrahim Aseem
why do we feel alone? he asked quietly and defeated, because in this world, we are told we need someone else to make us feel something, to show us good and to make us feel valuable. why is that you think? because we haven't learnt to love ourselves. he looked down, tracing his fingers over a worn picture frame.
~ Andrew Kadziolka
One should love oneself enough not to love oneself too much.
~ Marty Rubin
Lead your life with love and friendship, self-love as your own friend.
~ Bryant Mcgill
While we tend to think of love as some faraway place, it is actually a place nearby that we have forgotten.
When someone loves you, they always think you're beautiful. Those who don't see your beauty can't really see you at all.
~ Andrea Hurst
To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness
~ Leo Buscaglia
Love should be love. Want should be want. You can love someone with all your heart. They can be your heart, but you have to be able to stand on your own and I couldn't.
~ Nyrae Dawn
When all humans have self-love, wouldn’t it be heaven on earth?
~ Tom Lusk
When you discover your own self, you will see that same infinite potential in your lover’s eyes.