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Quotes About Self

Love is never outside ourselves; love is within us.
~ Louise Hay
You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.
~ Saint Augustine
The overall message is 'one love,' which means love begins with oneself. If you can't love yourself, you can't love anyone around you.
~ Simphiwe Dana
That love at first sight should happen to me, was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool.
~ Charles Boyer
We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.
~ George Wald
Love is a flame that burns everything other than itself. It is the destruction of all that is false and the fulfillment of all that is true.
~ Adyashanti
Unless, of course, you insist on identifying yourself with the people and things you love; and thereby seriously disturb yourself.
~ Albert Ellis
And I, love, am a pathological liar.
~ Sylvia Plath
If you're not at peace with yourself, you can't be at peace with anyone else.
~ Joyce Meyer
The key to a successful career is realizing that it's not separate from the rest of your life, but is rather an extension of your most basic self. And your most basic self is love.
~ Marianne Williamson
A love astounds us or a pain consumes us and we forget that we glow on our own.
~ Mark Nepo
When you are different the whole world is different. It is not a question of creating a different world. It is only a ques of creating a different you.
~ Rajneesh
When one has to ask, "Am I really in love?" the answer is always "No".
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Love is the ultimate giving, an expression of one's best self.
~ Bel Kaufman
When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.
~ bell hooks
in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!
~ Belle de Jour
Fear is only my ego's deluded perception that it is possible to experience a lack of love in my life.
~ Bijan
The things I can't change are the reasons you'll love me
~ Drake
We hide the truer part of ourselves when we love.
~ Edna O'Brien
Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.
~ Elizabeth Gilbert
I am who I am, and there is nothing I can do about that.
~ Emma Thompson
If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself, too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at all.
~ Erich Fromm
Jealousy springs more from love of self than from love of another.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The fate of your heart is your choice and no one else gets a vote
~ Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby