Quotes About Self-love

the more innocent it appears to innocent souls, the more they are likely to be touched by it. Its violence pleases our self-love, which immediately forms a desire to produce the same effects which are seen so well represented

No other religion has proposed that we should hate ourselves. No other religion therefore can please those who hate themselves and seek a being who is really worthy of love. And if they had never [before] heard of the religion of a humiliated God, they would at once embrace it.

And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me. --from Tulips, written 18 March 1961

And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me.

So much for selflove: I carry it with me like a dear cancerous relative - to be disposed of only when desperation sets in.

Wear your heart on your skin in this life." ? Sylvia Plath, Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

Don't fight the body the gods gave you

See with lamps on, Christy. Eyes wide open. See yourself as beautiful. The

I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

That's when it struck me: how gorgeous we all were, even with cellulite (saw a lot of that) and stretch marks, scars and tattoos. Let me just say this, not single body was perfect, not even the fittest of women there.

What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?

I preferred my brand of beauty where Norah was more beautiful than any bimbette, and Mom was beautiful whether sized extra-small or extra-large. Where Peony could look at herself in the mirror and murmur, wow, look at me. Just look at me.

Sexy women should embrace their allure, not shy away from it like the unsexy would want you to. If you are blessed with curves, show them off by all means! - Kailin Gow, Kailin Gow's Go Girl Beauty

I love my hair. I think everyone should love their hair. I think there's something intimate and beautiful about someone playing in your hair.

The more you invest in your health, the less you have to cover up it all up!

I've become very aware of body issues and body confidence.

Joan of Arc' is about not feeling scared to call yourself beautiful. Why shouldn't you!?

I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.

She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them.

It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.