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Quotes About Self-love

Take time to thank your body.
~ Geneen Roth
To fill yourself with bliss, today is the best time to start loving yourself deeply.
~ Debasish Mridha
Laziness in my biggest pet peeve of all time. Get up, make a plan, do the work, and love yourself, people!
~ Dove Cameron
Anorexia taught me to love life and to realise that starving yourself to death is a bloody waste of time. It's awful, and it hurts so many people around you. It's a terribly selfish thing to do.
~ Celia Imrie
It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.
~ Yasmin Ahmad
When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
He hated himself with a depth of hatred he had never felt for anyone else.
~ Mary Balogh
I want to watch the fat lady win I want her to stop apologizing for being fat I wish I could say: Hey, perfect angel cutie pie: You don't owe anyone shit. Stop apologizing for who you are. Go eat a fucking sandwich and throw your scale away Work out if you want to, lay on the couch if you want to No one else lives in your body You are enough, as you are, today
~ Mary Lambert
Love your own body like your mom loved your baby feet.
~ Mary Lambert
love your body the way your mother loved your baby feet and brother, arm wrapping shoulders, remember, this is important: you are worth more than who you fuck, you are worth more than a waistline, you are worth more than beer bottles displayed like drunken artifacts, you are no less valuable as a size 16 than a size 4, you are no less valuable as a 32A than a 36C you are worth more than any naked body
~ Mary Lambert
the time has come for us to reclaim our bodies. Our bodies deserve more than to be war-torn and collateral, offering this fuckdom as a pathetic means to say: i only know how to exist when i'm wanted girls like us are hardly ever wanted, you know we're used up. and sad. and drunk. and perpetually waiting by the phone for someone to pick up and say "you did good." well, you did good.
~ Mary Lambert
The trouble with human beings is not really that they love themselves too much; they ought to love themselves more. The trouble is simply that they don't love others enough. The End of Anthropocentrism?
~ Mary Midgley
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on.
~ Mary Oliver
we are all one family but love ourselves best.
~ Mary Oliver
Yet little by little I learned to love my life. Though sometimes I had to run hard— especially from melancholy— not to be held back.
~ Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
~ Mary Oliver
How do you tell someone she has to learn to love herself and her own body before she can be loved or love?
~ Azar Nafisi
There comes a time when it is vitally important for your spiritual health to drop your clothes, look in the mirror, and say, 'Here I am. This is the body-like-no-other that my life has shaped. I live here. This is my soul's address
~ Barbara Brown Taylor
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
Love. But the pure kind of love. I don't think that comes very often. Most of us are ordinary. If we do anything great, it's only so we'll be loved ourselves. Maybey just for ten minutes.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Sometimes it's hard being dark-skinned, just like it's sometimes hard to be any shade of brown or yellow. But it's not awful. We're just as cute and wonderful as anyone else.
~ Barbara Neely
You could look the whole world over and never find anyone more deserving of love than yourself.
~ Stephen Levine
you have to like yourself before you can like others.
~ Stephen R. Covey
I believe in me. I'm a little screwed up but I'm beautiful.
~ Steve McQueen