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Public acceptance will never replace self-love. Nor will group membership add, create, or dictate your value.
— Tiffany L. Jackson, 12 Keys to Success for Misfits, Weirdos & Introverts: A Practical and Spiritual Guide to Understanding Your Place in the World
It's bad when they don't treat you right... but it's tragic that you continue to allow it. Let today be the day you love yourself enough to say, NEVER AGAIN!
— Steve Maraboli
I long ago came to the understanding that the problems I once had with food were not merely about food. Eating was a way of trying to fill up the emptiness, to provide comfort. It was a substitute for love. I'm not referring to the love that comes from someone else. The love that was missing from my life was self-love. With age I've discovered a sense of worth that makes me less hungry. A piece of cake is just a piece of cake.
— Valerie Harper, Today I Am a Ma'am: and Other Musings On Life, Beauty, and Growing Older
Just because you are available for a relationship, doesn't mean you are ready for one. Sometimes you need a break from external relationships to nourish the internal one.
— Steve Maraboli
Oh baby, love and treasure yourself ❤ As in this life journey all you have is yourself.
— Ahimsa Murfi
Do not deceive yourself
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It's not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and make your happiness a priority. It's necessary.
— Mandy Hale
Set the standards for what you expect of people and the correct ones will join your cause.
— Shannon L. Alder
Do not forget to love yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Listen to your heart. It will lead you to a person you are looking for.
— Rishika Sharma
Accept me for who iam or leave me the the way iam, for a true image of God needs no Photoshop and the core of who i real am has no settings
— Morgan Chabane
Accept me for who iam or leave me the way iam, for a true image of God needs no Photoshop and the core of who i really am has no settings
— Morgan Chabane
Do not forget to be good to yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I am taking time to relax, renew and revive.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Be real. Be authentic. Be yourself, whatever the emotional cost. Pain goes away, while regret over a life lived trying to be a plastic version of yourself does not.
— Vironika Tugaleva
I love who I am.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I love my sacred self.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
We are all searching for love, some at the bottom of a bottle, some at the casino, some in the eyes of a new lover. The more we search outside ourselves, we more desperate we become. We suffer not because love's unavailable, but because we are not looking in the right place.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Practicing self-love means learning how to trust ourselves, to treat ourselves with respect, and to be kind and affectionate toward ourselves. This is a tall order give how hard most of us are on ourselves. I know I can talk to myself in ways that I would never consider talking to another person. How many of us are quick to think, "God, I am so stupid" and "Man, I'm such an Idiot."? Just like calling someone we love stupid or an idiot would be incongruent with practicing love, talking like that to ourselves takes a serious toll on our self-love
— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Love is in your heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The greatest self is self confident.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Empowered Women 101: Happiness is something that you establish before a relationship. It is not the relationship that establishes it first.
— Shannon L. Alder
I'm still shy," I admit, pulling the sleeves over my hands, "and I might always be, I don't know, but I think you can be shy and still feel okay about yourself at the same time.
— Megan Jacobson, Yellow
The one person you'll be spending the rest of your life with is you. Treat yourself with love and respect.
— Elle Sommer
Because we were treated neglectfully and abusively in our young years—when we most needed self-love to be mirrored—it was difficult to hold onto…We take up the challenge of learning to love ourselves, through our highs & our lows, when we are finding acceptance from others and when we are being closed out and rejected.
— Maureen Brady, Beyond Survival: A Writing Journey for Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse
Each and every Indian, man or woman, child or Elder, is a spirit-warrior.
— Leonard Peltier
I'm safe inside this container called me.
— Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
I can be a better me than anyone can
—  I am me. Good or bad. I am myself. I'm no carbon copy of no one else.
May you always remember the Beloved is your divine and sacred self.
— Earthschool Harmony, Back To Grace: Spiritual poetry and reflections
No one observed and beheld me, I observed and beheld myself; the invisible current went out and it came back to me. I came to love myself out of defiance, out of despair, because there was nothing else. Such a love will do, but it will only do, it is not the best kind; it has the taste of something left out on a shelf too long that has turned rancid, and when eaten makes the stomach turn. It will do, it will do, but only because there is nothing else to take its place; it is not to be recommended.
— Jamaica Kincaid
I know who I am.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Celebrate every moment of your sacred-life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
every time you tell your daughteryou yell at herout of loveyou teach her to confuseanger with kindnesswhich seems like a good ideatill she grows up totrust men who hurt hercause they look so muchlike you- to fathers with daughters
— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
i don't blame you for not knowing how to remain soft with me. sometimes i stay up thinking of all the places you are hurting which you'll never care to mention. i come from the same aching blood. from the same bone so desperate for attention i collapse in on myself. i am your daughter. i know the small talk is the only way you know how to tell me you love me. cause it is the only way i know how to tell you.
— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
the rape willtear youin halfbut it will notend you
— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else, is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.
— Bryant McGillns
Sometimes happiness can come very simply, purely, merely if one is ready to embrace it with open arms.
— Shampa Sharma, Soulmates Never Part
Always follow your Heart; unless it's been broken, then you must lead it. Back into Love, The Universe
— Mike Dooley, Notes from the Universe Coloring Book
I hate pretty much everyone almost as much as I love myself.
— A.D. Aliwat, Alpha
Don't disguise your tears, don't hide your sadness, don't be afraid to find out who you really are. Because in those fleeting moments you'll summon such beauty and strength that, in no time at all, you'll fully grasp exactly why you're so gossiped about here in the unseen
— Mike Dooley, Notes from the Universe Coloring Book
Some Me of BeautyI took a good long look at myself in a full length mirrorSometimes it’s good to look in a full length mirrorAnd what I saw was not some soul sister poetess of the momentBut I saw just a womanJust a woman feelingJust a woman humanAnd what I felt wasWhat I felt was a spiritual revelationAnd what I felt was a root revival of some love coming onComing on strongAnd I knew then, looking in a full length mirror,That many things were overAnd some me of beauty was about to begin
— Carolyn Rodgers
You can’t spend your whole life holding the door open for people and then being angry they didn’t thank you. Nobody asked you to hold the fucking door
— Unknonwn
don’t be like so many writers,don’t be like so many thousands ofpeople who call themselves writers,don’t be dull and boring andpretentious, don’t be consumed with self-love.the libraries of the world haveyawned themselves tosleepover your kind.don’t add to that.don’t do it.
— Charles Bukowski, Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way
Magick happens when you step into who you truly are and embrace that which fulfills your soul.
— Dacha Avelin, Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft
Some people think that the world revolves around them but even the Sun is not the center of the Universe.
— Halle Teart
Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.
— Brené Brown
My body is a holy temple.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
It occurred to me that some people couldn't handle too much love. That everyone loves as they're able, but more, they are loved as they're able. Some are indomitable and open, like an ocean, but others aren't made to tread those waves, cannot stay afloat those waters. We embrace the kind of love we can manage. Less can be the right measure. But when it isn't, we must learn we cannot squeeze a mountain into a room with a glass ceiling. Or everything shatters.
— Jennifer DeLucy
We try so hard to make ourselves lovable, and yet each layer of this mask puts another wall around us – a wall that keeps love out.
— Vironika Tugaleva
And regardless of whomever I’m with for whatever amount of time, I’ll be with myself the whole time and I want to be good to her. I want her to have a heart like an ocean: endlessly vast, full of wonder, and navigable only by the brave.
— Kelton Wright, Anonymous Asked: Life Lessons from the Internet's Big Sister
May every day of the New Year be filled with glorious wonders.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
If I could be anything in this world I would be rare. So rare that the people I loved never forgot me or ever found anything to compare me to. I was never a type, but the only type--the person you couldn't throw away because you would never be able to describe the mystery of something that didn't fit this world.
— Shannon L. Alder
I saw the apartment almost as a sanatorium, a hospice clinic for my own recovery. I painted the walls in the warmest colors I could find and bought myself flowers every week, as if I were visiting myself in the hospital.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
Choose the body to live in.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Love your body. Exercise for 10-15 minutes daily.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Love is purely holy.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You don't have to be in hurry in life. Everything happens in sacred-time.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Perfection is a faux. It’s a mask carved by our own poor esteem to hide who we really are and make others see what really isn’t us.
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
A Witch awakens within herself qualities of the elements and forces of nature.
— Dacha Avelin, Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft
Arrogance is the armour of the weak. They are always at war to hide their real self.
— Balroop Singh
You deserve this. Even when you feel like you don’t. You do. You deserve to have a healthy, loving, grace-filled relationship with yourself. You deserve to stop hurting in secret and in shame. You deserve to fully experience life. You deserve to be heard and helped. You deserve everything the negative voices have told you you don’t.
— 21 Things I’ve Learned In 21 Months of Recovery From Self Harm (via thefemmeinist)
Being passive is not the same as being peaceful. If you aren't doing what you know, in your heart, you want to do, you are NOT going with the flow. You are going against the flow. Your reactions, emotions, desires, and talents are all part of the flow of life. Ignoring them is passive resistance. Let yourself go.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Relax and be refreshed!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Be the star of your life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
We are all goofs of ourselves no matter how perfect the lives of some may seem. But when we embrace our flaws and work with it, sometimes, just sometimes, we get it right.
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance.
— Miguel Ruiz
Becoming a Witch isn't something we acquire. The Witch is already within us. She is someone we become ready and willing to embrace. Someone we realize we ARE.
— Dacha Avelin, Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft
Love the Lord God, with all your heart, soul, mind and strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Witches release the chapters of the past, which invites the novels of the future.
— Dacha Avelin, Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft
I am most grateful to the Lord for the gift of life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Heavenly onwards!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Let your spirit be great.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The way to self-love and admiration is to behave like someone whom you love and admire.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
I'd crossed a border—Speaking openly, exposing the weak girl I'd been, I was no longer her.
— Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
The manifest of gratitude is hundred-fold blessings.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Relax, Recreate and Refresh!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Holy existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Relax, refresh and revive your soul, spirit and body.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Adorn your sacred-existence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When we stop looking for someone to complete us, we find completion in ourselves.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset
We ought to seek daily grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
There is no love that is not self-love
— Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom
We cannot save ourselves. It is only Jesus Christ, who can set us free.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Love is pure. Love is divine.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
In the end, only you can care about you.
— Justice Mark Tsaro Igbara
Affirmation 4 us: I appreciate myself, and I am honored to be me because I am a perfect extension of God.
— Katina Marshell Cotton-Sliwa
If you don't love yourself, no other love can save you.
— Shaun Roundy, Heal Your Mind: A Practical Approach to Speaking Your Brain's Languages and Turning Pain into Power
Life is kinder to those who love themselves, because love attracts love and light, and repels and dispels darkness.
— Shaun Roundy, Heal Your Mind: A Practical Approach to Speaking Your Brain's Languages and Turning Pain into Power
You can love again.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Our inner Witch isn't something we acquire.It's already within us. It's something we become ready and willing to experience. Something we realize we ARE.
— Dacha Avelin, Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft
Every man must nurture is spiritual soul daily.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
For centuries we have been ripped apart by the hands of others as well as ourselves. Our personalities have been conditioned to become disconnected from our most Earthly ancestral knowledge. The days of disconnectedness are over. We must begin anew.
— Dacha Avelin
People get so caught in how they don’t like one part of themselves; nose, thighs, tummy, whatever.Things like flour and baking powder go into cakes and those things are gross alone, but the cake is pretty damn delicious.
— Todd El Holley
Every individual is unique with unique talents.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The greatest discovery is self-discovery.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Never settle on a life you don't want when God is trying to give you a better life.
— Shannon L. Alder
A witch is wise. She has earned her wisdom. She has learned to love her shadows and has grown more beautiful because of it. She has proven she can stand comfortably within her powers. She has become the true embodiment of a witch.
— Dacha Avelin
The mere fact that I exist means that I deserve to be here and to express myself any damn why I please.
— Euphoria Godsent
Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.
— Portia de Rossi, Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain
Once you have life, there exists a hope.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Most people are afraid to really take the time and do the work required to love self enough to cradle their wounded parts like a newborn baby before involving anyone else in their life.
— Sanjo Jendayi, I Now Pronounce You Single & Happy
Divine self is holy being.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I spent most of my adult life in relationships some good, some bad. It took years for me to realize that I was the common denominator in all of these relationships and I needed to love me first.
— Sanjo Jendayi, I Now Pronounce You Single & Happy
Rags will never make fine clothing
—  don't put them on you.
To find a happy ending with someone else, first you have to find it alone.
— Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After
All hatred of others is a reflection of self-hatred. All love of others is a reflection of self-love.
— Alan Cohen
Love does not envy, does not boast, does not delight in evil but rejoice in truth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The absence of self-love can never be replaced with the presence of people's love for you.
I liked my face. Ethan liked my face. A lot of people liked my face. Besides, makeup was really just glorified face paint.
— D.A. Paul, Boost
The happiness you seek can be found within yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Love yourself and the beauty of your uniqueness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Nothing restricts your peace and happiness more than your limiting self-beliefs and fears.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
As days are numbered and life is short, why waste days feeling bad for yourself?
— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Reason
People are beautiful. All people, of all shapes and sizes. The fact that we are living, breathing organisms that happen to have opposable thumbs, allowing us to pick up our phones and be on it for the entire damn day, is nothing short of brilliant. What makes us even more magnificent as a species is that we are lucky enough to be uniquely different - and it's THAT individuality we must each harness and celebrate.
— Connor Franta, A Work in Progress
A hateful heart is the greatest enemy of its self-love.
When your own approval means more than the approval of others, that is self-love.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Refuse to worry. Cast your anxiety upon the Lord. He cares for you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The absence of unconditional self-love has led many people to sell themselves cheap.
If you are allowing something to upset or anger you, try this: Before giving in to those negative emotions, try and think of one positive thing, one learning that you will gain, a single glimpse of something that you can use to build a positive future. Here’s a nudge to push you along: You own your mind. You choose to be either a victim or to take control.
— Michael Holbrook, Dear You, Live! Love, Life: Awaking your spirit, overcoming fears & excuses, and living a purposeful, fulfilling life.
The only love you should desperately search for, is the one that comes from you to you.
Start ignoring people who threaten your joy. Literally, ignore them. Say nothing. Don’t invite any parts of them into your space.
— alex elle
Love yourself enough to have a meaningful life.
— Millen Livis
No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one's heart better than unconditional self-love.
Authenticity is not the search for uniqueness. An oak tree does not try to become an oak tree. A cactus does not try to become a cactus. All living things simply reach for nourishment - they reach for sun, reach for water, reach their roots deeper into the ground. By being open to receiving what they need, they become unique effortlessly. So let yourself fall open. Forget about crafting yourself a unique personality. Just allow. Allow in love. Allow pain. Allow desire. Allow learning. Allow healing. Allow frustration. Allow uncertainty. Allow yourself to experience what you must experience and learn what you need to learn, so that your uniqueness can emerge organically.
— Vironika Tugaleva
When a witch embodies self-love, her energy becomes magnetic and her sense of possibility becomes contagious.
— Dacha Avelin, Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft
No matter how stupid, how pointless, how painful my current situation was, as I listened to Mixtape every week I couldn't deny the love I still felt for that reckless, audacious fool who was still me, if only in my mind.
— Piper Kerman
Where would I be had I not believed I was incompetent?
— Ilona Mialik
Self acceptance is common, Unfortunately, for some daft reason you are expected to have some kind of psychology degree to learn it.
— Auliq Ice
Life probably does not hand us any more visceral experience of how we mistakenly define ourselves than by means of our physical body. From the day we were born, the message we received from the world was that we are our body. This was the first great lie we were given by means of the collective consciousness of humankind, which has always valued itself from the outside in.
— Dennis Merritt Jones, Your Redefining Moments: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be
Why play small? Let your greatness be evident to all.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
I used to cry when I thought of living the rest of this life alone. Tears would fill my eyes while my heart would yearn. But now I feel empowerment in that acceptance. Power in knowing it is up to me to be happy ever after. I will not wait for him. After all, this awakening has just begun, it is going to take a man at the same point on the path I am. If I am going to fall allowing my spirit to completely melt into his manly grace, it is necessary he be awake.
— Juls Amor, THE YEAR OF THE FROG
I hear some people say, 'I need someone who could love me and make me happy.' The fact is, if you are not already happy with yourself, no one on earth would bring happiness in your life. If you are lacking self-love, no amount of love from others could fill up the emptiness in your heart. People for the most part can only bring some pleasurable moments in your life. However, people can disappoint, but self-love is forever unconditional.
When you stop comparing yourself with others, you begin respecting your own uniqueness.
— Vishwas Chavan
You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.
— Fred Rogers, Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers: Things to Remember Along the Way
I can put on a hat, or put on a coat,Or wear a pair of glasses or sail a boat. I can change all my names and find a place to hide. I can do most anything, but I'm still myself inside. I can go far away, or dream of anything, Or wear a scary costume or act like a king. I can change all my names and find a place to hide. I can do almost anything, but I'm still myself. I'm still myself. I'm still myself inside.
— Fred Rogers, Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers: Things to Remember Along the Way
The hunger for attention is an enemy of self-love.
Don't ever allow your heart to become desperate for love
—  unless it is for unconditional self-love.
We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.
— Fred Rogers, Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers: Things to Remember Along the Way
I am as I am, and that's all there is to it, I can hardly take a pair of scissors to myself, and cut out a different person...
— Franz Kafka
No amount of love from the outside can make up for the lack of self-love in one's heart.
The most important love in life is the one that comes from you to you.
Invest in yourself. You can afford it. Trust me.
— Rashon Carraway
When you learn to love yourself, you will no longer tolerate mistreatment of any kind. Not from him. Not from her. And not from YOU.
— Karen Michelle Miller, Words to Ponder About Life, Love and Men
Spend time understanding who you are, after all the only person your ever going to truly live with; is yourself.
— Nikki Rowe
Don't let your loyalty become your slavery.
— Karen Salmansohn
The hunger for attention is usually a result of low self-esteem and the lack of unconditional self-love.
How to live spiritually:- Love and appreciate yourself- Be honest with yourself- Express yourself truthfully- Know you are abundance- Remember to use humor- Don’t forget to choose
— Réné Gaudette
Cooperation over competition. If the world simply sees this statement, together we can begin our exploration of it. Simply seeing it is enough to create change.
— Réné Gaudette
Nothing and no one can harm you unless you choose to allow it.
— Réné Gaudette
Simply give to yourselves that which you need – which is love and appreciation without judgment.
— Réné Gaudette
Nothing is greater than or lesser than the self.
— Réné Gaudette
Take time for yourself. If you feel guilty eating lunch away from yourdesk or lingering in a bath, let the deprogramming begin.
— Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
Narcissists are everywhere in this ripe age of self-love, which amazes me because so much in life would seem to foster humility.
— Dean Koontz
Opening the door to self-respect is a key of happiness.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
We assure you there is no separateness between you and God/Goddess/The All That Is other than your perception.
— Réné Gaudette
A lot of things in life take time to manifest into reality. But as for self-love, there's no excuse to not have it in your life right at this very moment. It is free, and it's only a matter of changing your thoughts and beliefs to always compliment your inner-self.
All good things spring from Self-Love
— N. Sophronia Crosby, Five Loves: Stories of Misguided Love, Lust and Betrayal
With full appreciation, count your blessings no matter how small they might seem. Gratitude and unconditional self-love are the best gifts that you could ever give to your inner-self.
Your heart truly deserves the priceless feeling of unconditional love that can only come from you to you.
You are your own soul mate, so love and treat yourself in the same way you would your life partner.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
My Dear Friend, Don't ever allow yourself to forget how incredibly special you are, even for a single second. Without you, the world would not be as magnificent. Let yourself remember to love again, starting with you loving you.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
When you begin to walk your own journey, to have your own unique conversation, you will naturally stop feeling envious of others. Not because you’ll realize your desires are different from theirs, but because they are so similar. You’ll discover the difference between doing well and pretending to do well, between being happy and pretending to be happy, between healthy relationships and staged ones. You’ll see just how many obstacles lie on any path. You’ll realize that it takes the same amount of effort to work on building up the quality of the conversations in your life as it does to broadcast to the public, constantly, that those conversations are already perfect. You can either build up the mask or build up the authentic self. And you, brave and beautiful you, will make the right choice eventually. Be it now or on your deathbed. We all realize soon enough.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Self-love is not the process of ignoring things, paying attention to fewer flaws or forcing yourself to look away from the parts of you that you perceive as ugly or unwanted. Self-love is the process of expanding your awareness, of seeing those flaws and imperfections alongside the incredible potential of the universe flowing within you, alongside the eternal truth of life flowing within your veins in each second, alongside the flickers of creativity and opportunity present within each moment of your existence. Like this, the imperfections persist, but only as lovable quirks, like a bad doorknob on the front door of a cottage in paradise, like a few thorns on a beautiful rose, like a cloud in a sunset. Like this, what was once unwanted becomes essential, memorable, humbling.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Living a lie is painful, and doesn’t do anyone any good. I had to be true to myself, because, either way, God would know if I was lying.
— Isabel Quintero, Gabi, a Girl in Pieces
To earn respect, you must earn your own self respect before you can expect others, to respect you.
— Auliq Ice
Dear Girls Across the Globe,Let's stop body-shaming each other with hurtful comments about how another girl looks or doesn't look. We are all beautiful in our own unique way; so let's speak about each other with the dignity that we would want others to have when they speak about us.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
When we become more self-aware of our needs, we become better-equipped to takecare of ourselves.
— Aletheia Luna, Old Souls: The Sages and Mystics of Our World
There is nothing shameful about loving yourself. The shame is in NOT loving the unique and brilliant individual that you are.
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
You’ll also wonder how you can feel so brave and so afraid at the same time.
— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Nothing on earth can ever equate to the level of joy that comes with loving oneself unconditionally.
To survive the daily bumps and bruises that come with living our lives, we all need a gentle and loving home both within and outside of ourselves.
— Holly Elissa Bruno, The Comfort of Little Things: An Educator's Guide to Second Chances
Women are the jewels, but for them to feel that way, they must focus on enriching their body, mind and soul.
— Linda Alfiori
Believing in yourself is one of the greatest things that you could ever do for yourself. But the greatest is loving yourself unconditionally.
Give yourself the love and attention you desire, it's the starting point of contentment.
— Rob Liano
Did you make a mistake today? Did you do or say something that you’re ashamed of? Congratulations. You are officially human. Love yourself, especially when you’re aching with shame or regret. Make your amends, learn the lesson, and love your wondrous human self.
— Margaret Moss Painter
Don't go into a relationship with an empty heart, and expect your partner to complete it for you. No heart can ever be complete without the presence of unconditional self-love.
The more you've struggled to heal and love yourself, the more inspiring your story will be to others when you come out the other side full of triumph, awareness, and honour. Don't give up. Your struggle today is the source of your wisdom tomorrow.
— Vironika Tugaleva
We can’t hate ourselves into a version of ourselves we can love.
— Lori Deschene
I write because it's the only thing I love that always loves me back.
— Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading
You are not who you think you are. You are not your fears, your thoughts, or your body. You are not your insecurities, your career, or your memories. You're not what you're criticized for and you're not what you're praised for. You are a boundless wealth of potential. You are everything that's ever been. Don't sell yourself short. Every sunset, every mountain, every river, every passionate crowd, every concert, every drop of rain - that's you. So go find yourself. Go find your strength, find your beauty, find your purpose. Stop crafting your mask. Stop hiding. Stop lying to yourself and letting people lie to you. You're not lacking in anything except awareness. Everything you've ever wanted is already there, awaiting your attention, awaiting your time.
— Vironika Tugaleva
If you find yourself craving approval, you are low on self-love. Stop grasping for a few scraps wherever you can. Go home and make yourself a feast. Love yourself deeply today.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Who was I fooling, telling my heart to quiet its beautiful song so I could march in the parade of conformity? My biggest fool was me.
— Vironika Tugaleva
She rested her head against his and felt, for the first time, what she would often feel with him: a self-affection. He made her like herself. With him, she was at ease; her skin felt as though it was her right size.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I find it really fascinating that while in an attempt to look beautiful we tend to go for what's easily acceptable.But when it comes to portraits, it is only our facial flaws that make that picture worth its while, setting it apart.Isn't it amazing to find that beauty is something that makes us alike? While our flaws are the real contributors to our uniqueness.
— Mansi Laus Deo
I am good enough, attractive enough, important enough just as I am. I do not have to fix, help, or caretake others to earn their love.
— Shary Hauer
We should not look for more in others,Rather find more within ourselves
— Morris R. Gates
The closer you come to your authentic self, the simpler everything becomes. Listen to your intuition. It will tell you who you are.
— Vironika Tugaleva
A person who loves himself can never feel himself completely lonely!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Never forget that you solely owe unconditional self-love and massive success to yourself.
No other love on earth would ever equate to the unconditional one that could come from you to you.
... don’t confuse between self-love and narcissism. Self- love is making yourself your number one priority but narcissism is start enforcing that priority over others. First one is healthy
—  second one is not. First one is for your mental healthiness and well-being while the second one is to mess up with other peoples’ peace of mind to serve your own needs.
changing lives started with changing my own.
— Alexandra Elle
Fear, anger, jealousy, hatred of self and others are the outcomes of the lack of connectivity with your inner self. Connecting with your inner self and awakening your inner sensuality is not a luxury anymore, but it has become the necessity.
— Vishwas Chavan
Focus on keeping faith and growing your roots of light so strong and deep that no one, not even yourself, can make you believe something about yourself that is not good for your soul.
— Molly Friedenfeld
Dare not to criticise self, lift yourself up and set the boundaries for your worth. Speak kindly to self and hand your worries over to the wind,if you are here; you are successful already, start believing in your story, the destination will be meaningless if the journeys never been truly lived
— Nikki Rowe
You don't have to go out your way to validate or prove your worth to anyone who doesn't see YOUR reflection when they look in the mirror.
— ebrahim aseem
Whichever season you’re in, rejoice and celebrate your life as you might not experience it twice.
— Joan Ambu
I am happy not because I am without pain, but because I know I am not that pain.
— Vironika Tugaleva
why do we feel alone?" he asked quietly and defeated, "because in this world, we are told we need someone else to make us feel something, to show us good and to make us feel valuable." "why is that you think?" "because we haven't learnt to love ourselves." he looked down, tracing his fingers over a worn picture frame.
— Andrew Kadziolka
When I returned in the next stage of life, I wish to return as Lailah Gifty Akita.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Happiness is found within Oneself. It can't be accessed through People or Things.
— Joan Ambu
Loving yourself is the first step towards knowing what you would and wouldn't take from people - it determines not just the way people treat you but the relationships you keep in the first place
— Mr Imbuya
If you love yourself, you will be happy because you will always have your own company and attention
— Mr Imbuya
Your skin is your skin. Your legs are your legs. Your hair is your hair. Your smile is your smile. Your past is your past. You can waste your life hating these things, but you may as well learn to accept them. Both routes are difficult and full of pain, but with acceptance, you will be happy one day, while with hatred, you never will.
— Vironika Tugaleva
start ignoring people who threaten your joy. literally, ignore them. say nothing. don’t invite any parts of them into your space.
— Alexandra Elle
Be what you are. Do what you love. Speak what you feel. Don’t hide your humanity. Celebrate it. Embrace it.That is how you change the world.
— Vironika Tugaleva
I will never be scared to love me.I am a force to be reckoned with.I am beautiful.
— Alexandra Elle
You are nature. You are already perfect, peaceful, and powerful. You don’t need to become anything. You simply need to remember yourself.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Taking care of yourself isn’t about trying to become perfect. It’s about realizing and honouring,in every moment, thatyou already are.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Who will you love if not yourself? Other people? How can you love someone for anything but their raw, naked humanity? How can you say you love someone if it is not for their flaws and quirks, snorts and hurts, triggers and tears? Anything else is not love. It is idealization. And, as long as you do it to yourself, you will do it to everyone. You will not love anyone or anything until those eyes in the mirror soften up and embrace the beauty that is already within.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Sometimes the most important conversation we can have is with the waves of the ocean or the dewdrops on a blade of grass. Sometimes the easiest way to love yourself is to realize that you are all these things. You are everything you’ve ever loved.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Insecurity is lack of self love. When your fountain of self love is alive, you will be one with people.
— Vishwas Chavan
Life is a conversation with yourself. And who are you if not the eternal presence behind everything that is, was, and will be? Like this, the blow of each breeze and the beauty of each sunset can teach you about yourself, if you listen. If you hear.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Beautiful isn't something you become. It's something you realize you are.
— Vironika Tugaleva
your brown eyes are beautiful.don’t believe the hype.
— Alexandra Elle
these "sometimey" feelings are welcomed to stay... reminiscent of ying and yang: they need eachother to help me get through the good & bad days
— Alexandra Elle, Words from a Wanderer
One should love oneself enough not to love oneself too much.
— Marty Rubin
He threw all his affection at them and hoped that some of it would stick, maybe even come back to him, though if it didn't he gave it anyway; he gave it more, even, because everyone had something that needed to come out.
— Matthew Thomas
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
— William Shakespeare
Bliss is inherent in the Self as fragrance is inherent in a flower. As the flower of the Self-love blossoms, bliss comes spontaneously as the fragrance.
— Banani Ray, Awakening Inner Guru
Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Don't allow people into your energy field on a regular basis that you wouldn't want to be like yourself.
— Dawn Gluskin
Nothing is more attractive than being your authentic self!
— Dawn Gluskin, Make it Happen - Guide to Manifesting
The idea of death has been associated with the fear of the unknown, and the punishment or reward for our life choices. There is no punishment, and there is no reward. We punish ourselves instantly, when we choose to be destructive. We reward ourselves, when we choose being our loving selves.
— Raphael Zernoff
Although others can devalue who we are and what we do it is entirely up to us, whether we accept or reject it. Whenever we disagree with the offered opinion we can thank for it and then move on. There is no need to prove at all that we have a different perception of ourselves from what we are being offered.
— Raphael Zernoff
Helping OthersWhen we live our lives in happy, compassionate and constructive ways we set an example for others, which they may or may not choose to follow. There is no need for convincing anyone to what we know as good for us. Our actions always speak louder than words, as beautiful as they may be. Be yourself riding the wave of change, and you will lighten up assisting many others to do the same if this is what they prefer.
— Raphael Zernoff
It's better to risk being disliked for living your truth than to be loved for what you are pretending to be.
— Dawn Gluskin
Vulnerability scares most of us because we've been taught that FEELING our feelings is a sign of "over-sensitivity and weakness". We've taught ourselves to "numb" our feelings because they are too painful.We arrive at vulnerability when we allow ourselves to FEEL rather than think our feelings. It's an inside job of excavating away all the "stuff" that is in the way of reaching our heart, where love and vulnerability live.
— Marlene Milner
Look deep into my soul than what stretches the fabric of my clohes
— Morgan Chabane
Gratitude is where self-love begins!
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.
— Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
You set the standard for how people will treat and regard you, by how you treat and regard yourself.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
The foundation of joyful independence is being content with yourself
—  self-love.
Lead your life with love and friendship
—  self-love as your own friend.
Act as if you don't know me, and i will make it seem as though you don't exist.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
While we tend to think of love as some faraway place, it is actually a place nearby that we have forgotten.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
The rhythm of the heart...beats twice. Thump, thump. Once, first for itself and then once again for the rest of the body. It's a true metaphor for us. Like the heart we must pump life giving love and care for ourselves first, before extending that gift out to others. The heartbeat of every worthwhile relationship begins with a healthy, humble understanding and appreciation of our own personal self worth. When we do this the power to truly love and appreciate others pulsates fluidly and freely into all those we warmly choose to share our lives with.
— Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence
There is a self-love solution for every challenge.
— Abiola Abrams, The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love
Self-love is the best love, and you're the only one who gives it.
— Jasmine Sandozz, Thoughts of a Burning Heart
When someone loves you, they always think you're beautiful. Those who don't see your beauty can't really see you at all.
— Andrea Hurst, Always with You
You want to be popular? It’s easy to do. Just be a total weirdo and love yourself for it.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness
— Leo Buscaglia, Love
Love should be love. Want should be want. You can love someone with all your heart. They can be your heart, but you have to be able to stand on your own and I couldn't.
— Nyrae Dawn, Measuring Up
Those who correct others should watch for the Holy Spirit to go ahead of them and touch a person's heart. Learn to imitate Him who reproves gently. . . .When you become outraged over a person's fault, it is generally not "righteous indignation" but your own impatient personality expressing itself. Here is the imperfect pointing a finger at the imperfect. The more you selfishly love yourself, the more critical you will be. Self-love cannot forgive the self- love it discovers in others. Nothing is so offensive to a haughty, conceited heart as the sight of another one.God's love, however, is full of consideration, patience, and tenderness. It leads people out of their weakness and sin one step at a time.
— François Fénelon
We all have flaws, curves, and tempers, but together, it creates us, a vintage kind of beautiful.
— Heather Blynn
True success is accepting yourself for what you have to offer rather than for what you cannot do.
— Dave Shepp
Self-love is meant to be your foundation. It is your birthright. Once you get it – once you really feel what it is like to love yourself… to fall in love with yourself – you might never want to leave this stage.
— Annette Vaillancourt, How to Manifest Your Soulmate with Eft: Relationship as a Spiritual Path
By giving to yourself you are fulfilled, abundant and generous. You have spare love to share.
— Annette Vaillancourt, How to Manifest Your Soulmate with Eft: Relationship as a Spiritual Path
Self-love diminishes no one. It blesses others.
— Annette Vaillancourt, How to Manifest Your Soulmate with Eft: Relationship as a Spiritual Path
When all humans have self-love, wouldn’t it be heaven on earth?
— Tom Lusk
When you discover your own self, you will see that same infinite potential in your lover’s eyes.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
It is only because we seek love as if it lives outside of us that we miss it, again and again.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
The next time you get scared, get sacred!
— Abiola Abrams, The Sacred Bombshell Handbook of Self-Love
You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.
— Neal Shusterman, UnSouled
I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
Discovering the truth of who you are is the only way to love and care for yourself.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
And here's the surprising truth: As you gaze at yourself in the mirror held by another, you will see far more than your flaws. You also will see the beauty that is uniquely you; beauty that others see clearly and you may hardly know exists. That is also part of the truth about you.
— Steve Goodier
My job, my only job here in this moment, is to love myself and, by extension, to love others. My job is just to live and to realize that to live is to love.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
The search for the soul mate, the perfect partner to complete you, is a bit like searching for the perfect food when you’ve got a giant ulcer in your stomach. No matter what you find, it will never be good enough.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
Healing doesn't just take a little time, it also takes commitment to get started and to complete the process.
— Sereda Aleta Dailey, Stress Relief for Your Body & Mind
It is only when we can look inside and learn to love deeply that which resembles uncut gravel within ourselves that we will be blessed to find it filled with diamonds.
— Alice Nicholls
We have a love-shaped hole within us.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
It is only when we can look inside and learn to love deeply that which resembles uncut gravel within ourselves that we will be blessed to find it filled with diamonds
— Alice Nicholls
Understanding and unconditionally loving yourself is the key to achieving everything you desire. Understanding is the part that I believe so many slide by, therefore finding self love a challenge. When we understand what our inner thought process is about ourselves, we can address the areas that most desire a tender loving hug.
— Lee Pryke