Self Love Quotes

My job, my only job here in this moment, is to love myself and, by extension, to love others. My job is just to live and to realize that to live is to love.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

The search for the soul mate, the perfect partner to complete you, is a bit like searching for the perfect food when you’ve got a giant ulcer in your stomach. No matter what you find, it will never be good enough.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Healing doesn't just take a little time, it also takes commitment to get started and to complete the process.

~ Sereda Aleta Dailey

It is only when we can look inside and learn to love deeply that which resembles uncut gravel within ourselves that we will be blessed to find it filled with diamonds.

~ Alice Nicholls

We have a love-shaped hole within us.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Understanding and unconditionally loving yourself is the key to achieving everything you desire. Understanding is the part that I believe so many slide by, therefore finding self love a challenge. When we understand what our inner thought process is about ourselves, we can address the areas that most desire a tender loving hug.

~ Lee Pryke

A ray of sunshine, I bring to the world my passion of guiding others to their point of power by first loving themselves from the inside out. I Am on a never ending journey of self discovery and that has earned me a PHd in life experience I share with you. If your ready to walk the path of happy, I am your partner and together we Can transform your world into something extraordinarily awesome.

~ Lee Pryke

Don't forget to pause and nourish yourself a bit along the way. When you're born to help others sometimes you forget to help yourself.

~ Paula Heller Garland

You cannot ask someone to like you or love you more than you like or love yourself. YOU have to set the standard.

~ Mandy Hale

Make life easier for those around you, not harder.Every person you know is fighting their own great battle. Few of us ever know what those battles entail, and so often we say and do things that push others deeper and harder into the front lines of those battles. I know such has been the relentless lifelong reality for me.Love a person for the person that they are.Or dislike them for the person that they are.But don’t love or dislike them for the sole reason that they see people differently than you do. Don’t love or dislike them because they experience the world differently than you do.And please don’t eternally and wholly define them with sexual labels just because they were among those who finally found the courage to acknowledge their truth.

~ Dan Pearce

In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Self-love isn’t always so poetic, sometimes it’s a nice big triple back flip kick in the ass. You’ve got to call yourself on your own nonsense, on the incredibly efficient way you can be self-destructive.

~ Steve Maraboli

If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part of his person, which may not happen to be so beautiful as it ought to be. He must, therefore, guard particularly against that self-love, or too good opinion of his own person, and study by every means to acquire the knowledge of what is most beautiful, and of his own defects, that he may adopt the one and avoid the other.

~ Leonardo Da Vinci

Love, above all things, is a commitment to your choice.

~ Rob Liano

For twenty-one years, I have been paralyzed by the fear of what this society will do with me if they ever were to know of the thoughts that I continually push away. For more than two decades, I have made a choice to be straight. After all, it’s as easy as making a choice, isn’t it? This culture has made sure that I know that. Anyone who is anything other than straight was just someone deceived by the devil. He is unnatural. He is confused. He is mistaken. He is weak. He can control it if he desires to control it. Such a compelling and ongoing argument has been made that I have always trusted it.I believed that if I hid it long enough, and ran from it long enough, and refused to acknowledge it for long enough, I could indeed succeed at living up to their decrees. I believed that I could force myself to never be anything else.

~ Dan Pearce

We’re hungry for acceptance—from ourselves even more than from others—for love, for fulfillment, for peace. We’re hungry for a life we think we don’t deserve or can’t have, for the person we know we can be if only we’d give ourselves the chance.

~ Mary Deturris Poust

Complete - Yourself! Others may only enhance your completeness.

~ Lashauna D. Hinton

Love cannot come from where love is not. We cannot express love from within us for another if there is no love for ourselves within us.

~ O Shakoor

When you have developed a relationship with yourself, you can begin to take on the world.

~ Gabriella Kortsch

The Black Woman is amazingly strong, truly powerful, deeply visionary, has incredible worth and much love and goodness within that she is willing to share. She is to be honoured, yet must begin first to see and honour all of this (and much more) within and about herself. Let us see this more in who we truly are and live, when we do, we will attract more of the greatness that we absolutely deserve.

~ Rebecca Gordon

Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Monsters were wild. Monsters were strong. Monsters were fierce and free.If I was monstrous...perhaps it wasn't such a bad thing.

~ Sarah Diemer

Dagmar tried to stand, and Gwenvael caught her hand, pulling her back down. You can't leave me. I'm tortured and brooding. You need to show me how much you adore me so I can learn to love myself again.You've never stopped loving yourself.Because I'm amazing.

~ G.a. Aiken

How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!

~ Susan Sontag

To love one’s self, this is the greatest challenge we are all called to face.

~ T. Scott Mcleod

Our Imperfections Are What Make Us Perfect.

~ Lace Vintage

When I was a young philosopher, I asked a senior colleague, Pat Suppes (then and now a famous philosopher of science and an astute student of human nature), what the secret of happiness was. Instead of giving me advice, he made a rather droll observation about what a lot of people who were happy with themselves seem to have done, namely:1. Take a careful inventory of their shortcomings and flaws2. Adopt a code of values that treats these things as virtues3. Admire themselves for living up to itBrutal people admire themselves for being manly; compulsive pedants admire themselves for their attention to detail; naturally selfish and mean people admire themselves for their dedication to helping the market reward talent and punish failure, and so on.

~ John R. Perry

To hate the hate was just more hate; to reject the rejection was just more rejection; to judge the judging, just more judging.

~ T. Scott Mcleod

Whatever they say about it, but being altruistic is not so simple for everyone. Not to look and sound like despotism, altruism must be learnt, and it’s a long way, which in fact begins from our egoism, for really, a human can’t love others if he doesn’t love himself first.

~ Lara Biyuts

Haven't we all, as time continues, found that we must be kind to ourselves and listen to our thoughts, because fewer and fewer of those remain who know what is most real to us?

~ Lan Samantha Chang

All my life, in nameless, indeterminate ways, I'd tried to complete my life with someone else--first my father, then Hugh, even Whit, and I didn't want that anymore. I wanted to belong to myself.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

Be joyful and expect a great future.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You are wonderful.You are beautiful.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I am worth more than these excuses. I am worth more than this inconsistent, unhealthy, disappointing dynamic. I am worthy of finding someone that is never going to allow us to settle into this toxic, distorted version of love.

~ Liz Newman

Sing your own song. There are always some earnest listeners.

~ Amit Ray

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

~ François De La Rochefoucauld

Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.

~ Joseph Butler

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Our first and last love is self-love.

~ Christian Nestell Bovee

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

~ Pierre Corneille