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Quotes About Self-love

I stand firmly to the fact that you shouldn't have to change who you are to fit into any beauty standards or to be recognized in your job or to move forward in life. You should just be yourself.
~ Denise Bidot
It's ridiculous that we are in a place where we feel like we can classify and dismiss certain groups of people just because of the way they look, or we have these standards of health - like, cellulite is something you need to get rid of. No, it isn't. It's just a part of people's bodies.
~ Zach Anner
Only as far as a man is happily married to himself is he fit for married life and family life in general.
~ Novalis
We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best.
~ Aristotle
Look at me - a big old black man under all of this makeup, and if I can look beautiful, so can you.
~ RuPaul
Some men are friends with the whole world in their hearts, and there are others that hate themselves and spread their hatred around like butter on hot bread.
~ John Steinbeck
Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.
~ Hugh Kingsmill
What's wrong with this egotism? If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders, how is all life to become important to him?
~ Sherwood Anderson
At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels for herself but not for men.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.
~ Christian Scriver
One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
It's not okay to be critical of yourself.
~ Terri Savelle Foy
Don't hide behind a limitation in the way you look. Use it to shout to the world that you love life.
~ Terry Felber
Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.
~ Thaddeus Golas
There is no point in worry or wonder about worse or better spiritual conditions, although that game is available. You will not be able to rise above your present vibration level to stay until you love the way you are now.
~ Thaddeus Golas
You need to be happy with yourself before you commit to somebody else for happiness
~ the omani shed
Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.
~ Theodore Isaac Rubin
The chances are that if you begin taking care of your body with the right diet and regular exercise you will start to respect and like your body more.
~ Theresa Francis-Cheung
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
Know thou that the love of thyself is more hurtful to thee than anything in the world. According to the love and inclination which thou hast, everything more or less cleaveth to thee. If thy love be pure, sincere, well-regulated, thou shalt not be in captivity to anything. Do not covet what thou mayest not have; do not have what is able to hinder thee, and to rob thee of inward liberty.
~ Thomas a Kempis
From this sin, that a man loveth himself too inordinately, almost everything hangeth which needeth to be utterly overcome: when that evil is conquered and put under foot, there shall be great peace and tranquillity continually. But because few strive earnestly to die perfectly to themselves, and do not heartily go forth from themselves, therefore do they remain entangled in themselves, and cannot be raised in spirit above themselves.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
~ Thomas Aquinas
It's just about keeping people who are close to me, near. It's important to have people around who love themselves, are true to themselves, who have their own hobbies and their world doesn't revolve around Hollywood.
~ Vanessa Hudgens