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Quotes About Self

Your own attention is important, not the attention of others or your attention on others.
~ Nirmala Srivastava
One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.
~ Leo Buscaglia
You may lose people you love. You may lose things you had.. but no matter what, never lose yourself.
~ Ziad K. Abdelnour
To write, you need to find what you love.
~ D. J. MacHale
Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.
~ Deb Caletti
Why am I seeking? I am the same as he. His essence speaks through me. I have been looking for myself
~ Rumi
You can always get someone to love you - even if you have to do it yourself.
~ Tom Masson
I am what I am. I love golf, I love my life, I love my family and friends.
~ Sergio Garcia
Happiness depends on ourselves.
~ Aristotle
Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.
~ Bernard of Clairvaux
Falling in love is something that happens to us, being is love is something we do. No passion is self preservatory.
~ C. S. Lewis
Love is hot a higher power which descends upon mn nor a duty which is imposed upon him; it is his own power by which he relates himself to the world and makes it truly his.
~ Erich Fromm
You can have all the external experiences but you have to be the love first.
~ Isha Judd
Where pride begins, love ceases.
~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
There's that whole thing that happens in relationships - you can love someone but, as soon as they stop loving you so unconditionally that they stop being themselves, it can be so dangerous.
~ Justin Vernon
Love goes away when your mind goes away and then you're someone else.
~ Kathy Acker
Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Yet not with all of me am I in love. Too much of my own quietness is with me.
~ Mervyn Peake
There is a false love that will make you something you are not.
~ Diogenes
It stands in the light transfigured, It speaks from the heights above, "Each Soul Is Its Own Redeemer; There Is No Law But Love."
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
What we think is less than what we know; What we know is less than what we love; What we love is so much less than what there is. And to that precise extent we are so much less than what we are.
~ R. D. Laing
Love is disgusting when you no longer possess yourself.
~ Pola Negri
Your divine mate already exists. When you get to the place in yourself that is peaceful divine love, your true mate will be revealed.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Love brings you face to face with your self. It's impossible to love another if you cannot love yourself.
~ John Pierrakos