Quotes About Self-love

When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it's often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves.

Intellectually, we may appreciate that loving ourselves would give us a firm foundation but for most of us this is a leap of logic, not a leap of the heart.

The notion of loving oneself has gotten an undeservedly bad rap, which goes something like this: self-love is narcissistic, selfish, self-indulgent, the supreme delusion of a runaway ego looking out for "number one." In fact, just the opposite is true.

Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point.

We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we're innately capable of.

Although love is often depicted as starry-eyed and sweet, love for the self is made of tougher stuff.

We begin to cultivate real love for ourselves when we treat ourselves with compassion.

There's nothing more unattractive than a vain man

The hardest part of living is making peace with your past. Most of all, it's making peace with yourself.

anyway. People will come and go from your life, but you will walk hand in hand with yourself forever. Whatever you do, don't choose to be something you hate. I walked that path for far too long, and it's an ugly place to live. I want you to be better, because I know for a fact that you are better than I ever

The only person you will live your entire life with is yourself.

You can't enjoy your life if you don't enjoy YOURSELF.

When I was heavier, I danced and I jumped out of planes. I've always rejected the idea that there's a certain look or size that makes it acceptable to live life.

Life really changes. And it gets lighter, for the most part. You tolerate yourself and others better.

One of your biggest lessons so far in life has been to learn to forgive myself over and over again and not to be so harsh with myself.

I choose to open my arms to all the good that life has in store for me.

Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.

The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess.

but we people of fashion know better things. We know self-love and insincerity to be useful and important qualities, the grand cement which binds our intercourse with each other. Born a superior race, we can bid truth and plain honesty depart; and, having dressed falsehood and guile in all the fascination of the senses, can bow down before the idol of our own creation.

They could die behind this door together, gasping for air, and tonight they wouldn't mind. They were majestic, transcendent, in love. They were stupid and awful and they were fools. They hated one another, but only because they sometimes hated themselves. They loved the others more than they had loved anyone before, more than they would ever love anyone else on earth, they were certain.

I think you did try to save him for you loved him. And he failed to be saved because he loved himself.

No use wishing to be like other folks,' the maid said shrewdly. 'You have to learn to live at peace within your own skin.

He had discovered that the choice between self-love or love of something other than self offers no escape from suffering either way, it is merely a choice between two woundings, of the pride or of the heart.

I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: "My religion is loving-kindness." I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future; and that meant loving-kindness to myself--in my pain, in my jealousy, in my fear.