Self-love is necessary if one wants to lead a life that is both successful and meaningful. When you continually judge yourself negatively and compare yourself to others, it can be tough to enjoy who you are and what you have to offer. However, it is essential to constantly remind yourself that you are one of a kind, exceptional, and deserving of love.
Self-love is more than simply having a positive outlook on one’s own qualities; it also involves taking care of oneself and treating oneself in the same manner in which one would treat one’s closest friends. This requires paying attention to your mental, physical, and emotional well-being and participating in pursuits that leave you with a positive state of mind. Let’s start our day by enjoying some beautiful quotes about self-love.
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
Buddha
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
Stephen Chbosky
“You deserve someone who makes you feel like the otherworldly creature you are. Yourself.”
Amanda Lovelace
“Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give, and nobody will care for you.”
Karl Lagerfeld
“This is not the moment to wilt into the underbrush of your insecurities. You’ve earned the right to grow. You’re going to have to carry the water yourself.”
Cheryl Strayed
“Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can’t accept who you are.”
Turcois Ominek
“It’s really about changing the conversation. It’s not about perfection. It’s about purpose. We have to care about our bodies and what we put in them. Women have to take the time to focus on our mental health- take time for self, for the spiritual, without feeling guilty or selfish. The world will see you the way you see you and treat you the way you treat yourself.”
Beyoncé
“Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.”
Tina Fey
“Keep taking time for yourself until you’re you again.”
Lalah Delia
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself- what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.”
Warsan Shire
“Love yourself when you’re tired. Love yourself when you’re weak. Love yourself when you’re confused. Love yourself when you’re broken. Love yourself when you’re restored.”
MB
“Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.”
Coco Chanel
“I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”
Madonna
“Self-love is an ocean, and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. But you must come first.”
Beau Taplin
“In your own life it’s important to know how spectacular you are.”
Steve Maraboli
“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
Mark Twain
“No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love.”
Edmond Mbiaka
“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.”
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“They will try to make you unhappy, don’t let them. They will try to tell you you’re not free, don’t listen.”
Unknown
“We do not have the right to feel helpless. We must help ourselves. After destiny has delivered what it delivers, we are responsible for our lives.”
Cheryl Strayed
“I am more than my scars.”
Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle
“No one is you and that is your superpower.”
Unknown
“Be single and save yourself for a relationship that motivates you to become the best version of yourself. Be single until you find a love that resembles the type of love you’ve been fighting for.”
R.H. Sin
“To find a happy ending with someone else, first you have to find it alone.”
Soman Chainani
“Flowers grow back even after the harshest winters. You will, too.”
Jennae Cecelia
“No one can rescue me. I know because I’ve already tried to get them to do it. It doesn’t work. This is all on me.”
Michelle D’Avella
“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”
Confucius
“Life is too short to spend it at war with yourself.”
Unknown
“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”
Haruki Murakami
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
Anne Lamott
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.”
Brené Brown
“In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.”
Unknown
“A lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done for ourselves.”
Rupi Kaur
“We can’t be so desperate for love that we forget where we can always find it; within.”
Alexandra Elle
“Talk to yourself like someone you love.”
Brené Brown
“Sometimes your soulmate is yourself. Sometimes you have to be the love of your life until you discover that type of love in someone else.”
R.H. Sin
“You must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first.”
Rupi Kaur
“Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.”
Cheryl Strayed
“Treat her like you never want to lose her.”
R.H. Sin
“Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone, to experience, appreciate and love yourself.”
Robert Tew
“You really have to love yourself to get anything in this world done.”
Lucille Ball
“You are enough. A thousand times enough.”
Unknown
“Follow your passion. Stay true to yourself. Never follow someone else’s path unless you’re in the woods and you’re lost and you see a path. By all means, you should follow that.”
Ellen DeGeneres
“You are what you believe yourself to be.”
Paulo Coelho
“Self-care is how you take your power back.”
Lalah Delia
“You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right here.”
Venus Williams
“Heal yourself first. The rest will come later.”
Unknown
“The goal is to learn to be nurturing with yourself so you can feel free.”
Deborah Day
“You owe it to yourself to become everything you’ve ever dreamed of being.”
Unknown
“Be brave enough to heal yourself even when it hurts.”
Bianca Sparacino
“One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself.”
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
“You have to be odd to be number one.”
Dr. Seuss
“Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth, and everything else will come.”
Ellen DeGeneres
“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.”
Barbara De Angelis
“All relationships are a reflection of your relationship with yourself.”
Deepak Chopra
“You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.”
Yogi Bhajan
“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
Rupi Kaur
“The things that make me different are the things that make me.”
Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne
“If there’s one thing, I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself.”
Beyoncé
“I am what I am. I can’t help myself and if you don’t like it get with somebody else.”
Jonas Brothers
“Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.”
Wayne Dyer
“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
Carl Gustav Jung
“I try to keep it real. I don’t have time to worry about what I’m projecting to the world. I’m just busy being myself.”
Demi Lovato
“In order to love who, you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.”
Andrea Dykstra
“You are good enough to make whatever you want to achieve possible. You just need to find your talent and passion, then put a heck a lot of work into it.”
Ashley Graham
“It’s you versus you.”
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.”
Rupi Kaur
“The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.”
Maya Angelou
“It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self-love deficit.”
Eartha Kitt
“Feel the fact that you are enough.”
Mark Nepo
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
Lucille Ball
“Be so completely yourself that everyone else feels safe to be themselves, too.”
Unknown
“My heart is beating, and I’m breathing, and nothing anybody has ever done has changed that.”
Rupi Kaur
“This life is mine alone. So, I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been.”
Glennon Doyle
“Until I’m ready, let me be. I have to heal myself.”
Samantha King
“Loving yourself isn’t vanity; it’s sanity.”
Katrina Mayer
“You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.”
Diane von Furstenberg
“You change the world by being yourself.”
Yoko Ono
“Self-love- it doesn’t mean that everyone will treat you the way you deserve to be treated. It means that you won’t let them change the way you see yourself; nor will you stick around for them to destroy you.”
Tony A. Gaskins Jr.
“Your biggest commitment must always be to yourself.”
Bridgett Devoue
“Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others.”
Brené Brown
“I remind myself to be kind to myself, and as slightly ridiculous as it may sound, to treat myself in the same gentle way I’d want to treat a daughter of mine. It really helps.”
Emma Stone
“Trust the next chapter because you are the author.”
Unknown
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“You are free, you are powerful, you are good, you are love, you have value you have a purpose. All is well.”
Abraham Hicks
“I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.”
Maya Angelou
“Scarcity of self-value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.”
Gary Zukav
“Self-care is giving the world the best you instead of what’s left of you.”
Katie Reed
“Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one’s self.”
Priscilla Presley
“I didn’t feel sad or happy. I didn’t feel proud or ashamed. I only felt that in spite of all the things I’d done wrong, in getting myself here, I’d done right.”
Cheryl Strayed
“Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.”
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.”
Unknown
“In stressful times, it’s okay to not be perfect. Cut yourself some slack. Because right now, you might not be your best self, but you are growing, and you are trying your best. And that is good enough.”
Ashley Hetherington
“People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.”
Dan Pearce
“Keep watering yourself. You’re growing.”
E. Russell
“Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.”
Louise Hay
“Plant hope in your heart’s wounds.”
Alexandra Vasiliu
“Don’t fall into the trap of sacrificing your self-esteem for affection and acceptance.”
Ashley Graham
“When you feel your worst is when you need to love yourself more.”
Unknown
“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
Charles Bukowski
“Gonna love myself. No, I don’t need anybody else.”
Hailee Steinfeld
“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.”
Sally Field
“Make yourself a priority.”
Unknown
“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”
Oscar Wilde
“Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.”
Les Brown
“I woke up like this. Flawless.”
Beyoncé
“I used to be bound by people who placed limits on what they thought I could do. Through that, I learned that if you want something, you have to be the one to go out and do it If you don’t ask for something, you’re not going to get it.”
Ashley Graham
“Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.”
Queen Latifah
“Make peace with your broken pieces.”
R.H. Sin
“Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Fall in love with the path of deep healing. Fall in love with becoming the best version of yourself but with patience, with compassion, and respect to your own journey.”
S. Mcnu*tt
“You find peace not by rearranging the circ*mstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”
Eckhart Tolle
“Self-love is the greatest middle finger of all time.”
Unknown
“When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs, and habits–anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.”
Kim McMillen
“When things change inside you, things change around you.”
Unknown
“Be enough for yourself first. The rest of the world can wait.”
FW
“Never give up on anyone. And that includes not giving up on yourself.”
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
“Let it go, let it leave, let it happen. Nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway.”
Rupi Kaur
“One day I woke up and realized I was not made for anyone. I was made for me. I am my own.”
Unknown
“The same light you see in others is shining within you, too.”
MHN
“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”
Robert Morely
“Learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn to admire your beauty without finding fault. Learn to love yourself without the love of others.”
H.R.D
“When life puts you in touchy situations, don’t say, ‘Why me?’ Just say, ‘Try me.'”
Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
“She never needed to be saved. She only wanted to be loved the correct way. She wasn’t looking for a hero. All she wanted was someone she could trust outside of herself.”
R.H. Sin
Can Self-Love Be Learned?
To get started, take baby steps; every day, tell yourself something nice and make it a point to be grateful. Make room in your schedule for pursuits that will make you happy and bring more laughter into your life.
Don’t forget to take care of your body by getting regular exercise and consuming nutritious foods that provide you with nourishment and energy. Spend time with people who respect and appreciate you, and establish boundaries to safeguard your time, energy, and feelings. Spend time with people who value and respect you.
Self-love Takes Time and Effort
Self-love is acknowledging your shortcomings, coming to terms with them, and making conscious efforts to improve upon them. When you are in a position where you require help, do not be hesitant to ask for it. And if you do mess up, try not to be too harsh on yourself; instead, acknowledge it, learn from it, and push yourself to do better the next time.
You may cultivate the kind of self-assurance that will serve you well in any and all aspects of life if you spend time tending to yourself and putting your own requirements first. When you have a healthy relationship with yourself, you will have the ability to design a life that has significance for you. Therefore, making the effort to love yourself is the cornerstone of leading a life that is richly rewarding.
You Are One of a Kind
Learning to accept oneself at this point in your life is a significant step forward. You are one of a kind, and there is no other person in the entire world like you. Because no one else has the same precise mix of great and bad characteristics as you have, it is essential that you learn how to appreciate and accept every aspect of who you are.
When it comes to embracing oneself, self-acceptance begins with recognizing and making peace with your shortcomings. It is not always easy to face up to the fact that one is not flawless. Admitting this might be challenging. But the fact that you are a flawed human being does not make you a horrible person; it only demonstrates that you are human. Consider how much easier your life will become once you let go of the need to be flawless and learn to accept your shortcomings, such as making errors.
Get Ready to Ask Yourself Some Tough Questions
After you have reconciled your feelings regarding your shortcomings, it is time to turn your attention to the aspects of your character that are admirable. What are some of the characteristics that contribute to the person that you are? What do you bring to the table that nobody else can that is unique? You may get a head start on developing a positive and powerful sense of identity for yourself if you take the time to acknowledge the distinctive set of abilities and characteristics you possess.
Bear in mind that getting to know oneself is an ongoing process. Your preferences, likes, and dislikes will shift as you get exposed to new experiences and information. In order to learn more about who you are and what you’re capable of, you shouldn’t be scared to attempt new things or to go outside of your comfort zone every once in a while.
One more thing to keep in mind: if you want to be content, fulfilled, and happy, one of the most important things you can do is learn to accept yourself. Therefore, set aside some time to consider who you are and the qualities that set you apart from everyone else.
Wrapping Up
Accept both the positive and negative aspects of yourself so that you can appreciate all aspects of who you are, including your imperfections. After you have accomplished this, being genuine about who you are will come much more naturally.
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