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Don't live your life like a movie. Always thinkin you could've been something. Don't live your life for me or for anyone. You live your life as if you're one.
— Tegan Quin
I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
— Rita Mae Brown
As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is “AUTHENTICITY”.As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody if I try to force my desires on this person, even though I knew the time was not right and the person was not ready for it, and even though this person was me. Today I call it “RESPECT”.As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it “MATURITY”.As I began to love myself I understood that at any circumstance, I am in the right place at the right time, and everything happens at the exactly right moment. So I could be calm. Today I call it “SELF-CONFIDENCE”.As I began to love myself I quit stealing my own time, and I stopped designing huge projects for the future. Today, I only do what brings me joy and happiness, things I love to do and that make my heart cheer, and I do them in my own way and in my own rhythm. Today I call it “SIMPLICITY”.As I began to love myself I freed myself of anything that is no good for my health – food, people, things, situations, and everything that drew me down and away from myself. At first I called this attitude a healthy egoism. Today I know it is “LOVE OF ONESELF”.As I began to love myself I quit trying to always be right, and ever since I was wrong less of the time. Today I discovered that is “MODESTY”.As I began to love myself I refused to go on living in the past and worrying about the future. Now, I only live for the moment, where everything is happening. Today I live each day, day by day, and I call it “FULFILLMENT”.As I began to love myself I recognized that my mind can disturb me and it can make me sick. But as I connected it to my heart, my mind became a valuable ally. Today I call this connection “WISDOM OF THE HEART”.We no longer need to fear arguments, confrontations or any kind of problems with ourselves or others. Even stars collide, and out of their crashing new worlds are born. Today I know “THAT IS LIFE”!
— Charlie Chaplin
If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
— Charles Bukowski
Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.
— Warsan Shire
Since [narcissists] deep down, feel themselves to be faultless, it is inevitable that when they are in conflict with the world they will invariably perceive the conflict as the world's fault. Since they must deny their own badness, they must perceive others as bad. They project their own evil onto the world. They never think of themselves as evil, on the other hand, they consequently see much evil in others.
— M. Scott Peck
how you love yourself ishow you teach othersto love you
— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
fall in lovewith your solitude
— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
I am more than my scars.
— Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle
Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.
— Robert Brault
It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.
— James     Baldwin, Collected Essays: Notes of a Native Son / Nobody Knows My Name / The Fire Next Time / No Name in the Street / The Devil Finds Work / Other
She held herself until the sobs of the child inside subsided entirely. I love you, she told herself. It will all be okay.
— H. Raven Rose, Shadow Selves: Double Happiness
I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.
— Brené Brown
Love is proved the moment you let go of someone because they need you to.
— Shannon L. Alder
When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits - anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.
— Kim McMillen, When I Loved Myself Enough
You’ll never know who you are unless you shed who you pretend to be.
— Vironika Tugaleva
The world is so obsessed with defining sexuality for everyone and attaching labels to it. Any time any person openly leaves the sexual norm, their sexuality becomes, more often than not, the absolute defining characteristic of that person. It becomes the first thing people think about and often the first thing they mention. Every other part of that person all but disappears.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Do something every day that is loving toward your body and gives you the opportunity to enjoy the sensations of your body.
— Golda Poretsky, Stop Dieting Now: 25 Reasons to Stop, 25 Ways to Heal
A deep love resides inside each of us. This love is independent of the desires, thoughts, and opinions, good or bad, which are readily offered to us. It is a love that is gentle and kind, accepting and nonjudgmental, playful and spontaneous, courageous and curious. It is always encouraging and always evolving. This love can be discovered only through turning off the noise around us, coming to ourselves in silence, meditation, and prayer. If we listen carefully we will hear the murmurs of our inner voice tell yearnings of our truest selves. What is available to us is a profound understanding, appreciation, and full acceptance of self, all of the good and all of the bad.Only when we truly know that we are able to tap into this part of ourselves can we begin to love others fully. Love for others is the manifestation of love for self. We cannot love another more than we love ourselves. Life is a mirror. If you want to know what love for yourself looks like, look at your love for others. If you want to know what your love for others look like, look at your love for self. When you love yourself this way, you love God this way. This relationship is the divine love triangle; self, God, and others in any order.
— Marlon Hartley Lindsay
At the border of where I will literally not survive so long as I keep living in so much fear of the harsh judgments of others, I am finally conceding the truth to you all.I am finally conceding the truth to me.I am something other than straight.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
Other than the love of God
—  the greatest love is self love. You have to love yourself more than you love someone else in order to succeed in a prosperous life.
If only I could change the world around me, perhaps my truth won’t one day be the end of me.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
If nothing else in this long and short life, let me be true to my conscience, to the dignity of my own heart. Let me act in a way that says, I have honored my spirit as truly as I have honored others'. Let me stand tall and rooted as a mountain in the face of a quaking world.
— Jennifer DeLucy
Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.
— M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth
Anyway, how can you say things like that? You don't know me at all." She wasn't really caught up in this game, but she was enjoying it, as she had enjoyed the dozens of declarations that had been made to her since she was eleven. Her earliest memories were of being told how beautiful she was. Something in her never believed the words, never felt satisfied. It wasn't modesty; it was a craving for more proof than anyone had ever yet given her. Her mind worked constantly at trying to understand for herself exactly what other people saw when they looked at her. She could never grasp it whole and living. Her deepest fantasy was to step outside of her skin and look at herself and find out just what people were thinking about. She spent her life experimenting with people to see how she could make them react, as if, in their response, she could discover herself.
— Judith Krantz, Scruples
All love begins with the love within.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset: An Unconventional Guide to Healing and Happiness
The 8 Snippets feed hungry hearts with love, learning and laughter.
— T.R. Johnson
The single biggest thing I’ve done to improve my relationship with others, was to improve the relationship I have with myself. I became lovable when I was able to love myself. No one can love you, if you don’t love you. Accept, nurture and love yourself as you are. You’ll be amazed how much it will also change how others perceive you.
— Akiroq Brost
You see, every piece of the puzzle is required to complete the scene, while some have rough edges and some smooth, they all have value. Being grateful for each piece is not always easy, but it is necessary.
— Greg Dutilly
Women have to support each other more. Women get women. We understand each other when we are happy or sad, when we have our period, start a new job, or fall in love. We are typically the caretakers. Let’s take care of each other, start building each other up. The stereotype with women is that we are catty and vindictive. It’s important to fight against that notion. I have a no BS policy in my circle.
— Ashley Graham
When you find yourself drowning in self-hate, you have to remind yourself that you weren’t born feeling this way. That at some point in your journey, some person or experience sent you the message that there was something wrong with who you are, and you internalized those messages and took them on as your truth. But that hate isn’t yours to carry, and those judgments aren’t about you. And in the same way that you learned to think badly of yourself, you can learn to think new, self-loving and accepting thoughts. You can learn to challenge those beliefs, take away their power, and reclaim your own. It won’t be easy, and it won’t happen over night. But it is possible. And it starts when you decide that there has to be more to life than this pain you feel. It starts when you decide that you deserve to discover it.
— Danielle Keopke
perfection is a form of fear
— Akosua Dardaine Edwards, Nyabo (Madam) - Why Are You Here?: The Truth about Living in Service, Love, and Personal Power
Nurtured by negative circumstances, braiding raging tornadoes in her hair, she held her head high, wearing her weathered poetry with pride.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
I admit. I have the tendency of blanking family, friends and acquaintances when they justify their behaviors and deny any negative feedback; I refuse to invest my time in premeditated resentments.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
There are two types of people on this earth
—  a Sack of bones dragging a soul or a Soul carrying a sack of bones.
Love yourself. That kind of love can get you through anything.
— Alfa H, Abandoned Breaths
I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defense when and wherever needed.
— Maya Angelou, Letter to My Daughter
There are parts of me that are broken. Thank you, they don't need fixing. There are places and people that I don't 'fit in' with. Thank you, I don't belong.There are words that have a comletely different meaning to me than for others. Thank you, I appreciate my own unique values.There are moments that I feel all alone in the world. Thank you, I rather enjoy and appreciate my solitude.There are people who judge me because they find me to be too shallow or too deep. Thank you, I love exploring the entirety of the ocean.There are people who truly love and value me just as I am. Thank you, you enrich my life profoundly. There is always room for expansion to grow, grace for every mistake, strength made perfect in every weakness and highest kudos for the courage to continue this adventurous soul mission called Life. Thank you, I am truly happy to be here.
— Mishi McCoy
And... Know thyself Know Know
— Malebo Sephodi
Your oddity is your hottest commodity but you scratch yourself like it's the lottery to reject yourself mentally, spiritually & bodily.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones, Mirrors Of The Sun: Finding Reflections Of Light In The Shittiness Of Life
I may not be perfect, but I am worthy.
— Mel Robbins, The 5 Second Rule: Transform Your Life, Work, and Confidence with Everyday Courage
Someone once told me that they didn't like me very much. I smiled and replied, "That's okay. For a long time, I didn't like myself either.
— Mishi McCoy
Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and self-love may be love for my devotion to Jesus— not love for Jesus Himself.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Act, think, do, according to your truth, according to who you are, and who you want to be. Congruency matters. How can you escape when you betray your heart, your passion, your needs and your mind? There is no hiding. It will eat you alive. Even if it is difficult, even if it may seem impossible, stay true to yourself. No one can live this life but you. If you live your life solely for others but never for yourself, you will impair your ability to truly help others. Whatever is within us always seeps out through our words, actions and behaviour. If we sabotage ourselves by doing what we may think we are supposed to, according to others but not according to our own hearts, what will our children and loved ones think? What are we showing the world when we betray our very nature? Will others think this is an act of love or self-love? Worse still if others then attempt to mimic it and do the same. Would you want your child deeply unhappy because they were following what they thought they had to, what was expected? If you wouldn't wish that for your child, then don't wish it for yourself either. Be just as loving and caring to yourself as you would be to those you love the most. Learn to love yourself enough to allow yourself to dream, explore, follow your passions, and even risk failure. Follow the truths that are carried within the heart of your soul.
— Akiroq Brost
I am more than my measurements. The cycle of body-shaming needs to end. I’m over it… My body is MY body. I’ll call the shots.
— Ashley Graham
My scars teach me that I am stronger than what caused them.
— Manal Al-Sharif, Daring to Drive: A Saudi Woman’s Awakening
This year I've been figuring out who I am. I've been learning what I want, and it's the same as what I've always wanted, only I'm different. Leaders live and grow and learn. They run into dragons, get burned by them, temper their swords in the fire, and take them on. That's what I want to do. That's who I want to be. Not the girl cowering in her father's office. I want to be fierce.
— Robin York, Deeper
A Resilient Person do not need of good fortune.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Only self-love spreads true love.
— Arjun Escabarte
Here, I choose to love what I have. Here, I choose to love what I am now
— Riley Redgate, Seven Ways We Lie
To know your true value in a state brings forth good intentions and value into that which is Now for you. And this is an honest way to live - healthy, wealthy, well-being, all day every and day. So be it. A good sentence to state is: I am healthy, wealthy, well-being.
— Catherine Marie Bergman, Autobiography of My Guardian Angel: Divine Words From Above to be Read by Humankind
in piecesyet at peacei am a building in a post war city
— Noor Unnahar, Yesterday I Was the Moon
Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.
— Joyce Rachelle
Don’t count on cheerleaders once you start living a life more reflective of your truth. They may not want to do somersaults and backflips for your awakening, not when they’re still asleep. Don’t let that stop you. Most of us have only been trained to cheer for conformity, to commend those who are just like us. But aren’t you bored of being congratulated for fitting in? Aren’t you tired of ignoring your heart’s requests?Don’t wait for cheerleaders. Be grateful if they show up, but you show up regardless, with or without them.You will never be defined by the reception you get from others, only by the truth with which you receive yourself. Be your biggest cheerleader. Love yourself. And applaud every single step you take toward truth.
— Scott Stabile
What if each time you experienced an emotion, you acknowledged it, accepted it, and became curious about its message for you (instead of trying to make it go away or make it last longer)? Imagine how this could change your life. Imagine how heard, loved, and honoured you would feel if you really listened to yourself.
— Vironika Tugaleva
The more accepting I've become about all the pieces of myself—even the crazed, hysterical ones—the more relaxed I've become with who I am.And then one day you figure out how to be more peaceful with all of your hysteria, and suddenly you’re not as hysterical so often.
— Scott Stabile
And she told you something about yourself you really ought to know: that you're beautiful, and worth loving.
— Tamora Pierce, The Will of the Empress
Hope is my strength. My strength is my weapon. And my Love, nurtures them both.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
If it bothers you to see me when then stop looking.
— Victoria Barnes
I don't break the rules, I simply bend them in my favor.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
I am shedding.I am not a new me.I am my old me in my new me.I remain, carved with the soul of my knife.My mess scattered all over my countenance. I am me. Take me as I am.
— Malebo Sephodi
Of course she no longer excites him. She no longer works overtime to maintain a dumpster fire.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
There are zero excuses or delays when oneself is determined to grow.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
I don't date as an active activity anymore because the work of loving myself is enough.
— Gita Jackson, The Secret Loves of Geek Girls
What you allow inside of you will settle there unless you find an effective way to work it out.
— Malebo Sephodi, Miss Behave
My main purpose in life is to do everything on purpose.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Cling to the good.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Once you master the art of self-love, you become so content with yourself that what other’s say or do, it stops bothering you. At the same time, It’s very important to know the difference between those who just casually make fun of you and those who make fun of you to bring you down. It’s a really good trait to be able to laugh at yourself but not at the cost of your dignity.
— Aishwarya Sharma
I knew my value because the world seemed to be denying it, and that just made me want to prove it even more.
— A.J. Mendez Brooks, Crazy Is My Superpower:  How I Triumphed by Breaking Bones, Breaking Hearts, and Breaking the Rules
Self-Love is accepting you for what you are, Accepting your flaws and just being confident in your own skin. Acceptance is the first and the most important step for the self-love. Accept the fact that you are a human and thus wired to make mistakes.
— Aishwarya Sharma
Self care isn’t always pretty , it’s not always candles and a bathtub full of roses , sometimes it’s forcing yourself to get out of bed and dragging yourself , sometimes it’s the pep talk you give to yourself or the quick cry in the corner . sometimes it is convincing yourself to do all these things you should be doing but you have no will whatsoever , sometimes it’s cutting some ties no matter how precious they were , sometimes it’s the bitter medicine you need to give yourself .
— KRITI GOYAL
The problems presented by difficult individuals contribute to your growth and evolution—another reason for ﬁlling yourself with gratitude, appreciation, and love!
— Susan Barbara Apollon, An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey
Always distance yourself from gossip, because it is the worst form of self-disruption.
— Gift Gugu Mona
After self-love the second best gift you could ever give yourself is self-discipline.
— Tyconis D. Allison Ty
Life should not be an endurance event. No prestigious job, well-appointed house, or luxury vacation is worth your emotional, mental and, yes, physical health. In fact, the abrupt loss of all of these things through a cancer diagnosis can be the wake-up call that forces you to identify and begin correcting the things that aren’t working in your life.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey
In order to create a balanced life that excites you and that allows enough time for healthy habits to flourish, you must love yourself. Even then, it probably won’t be realistic to make one big, drastic sweeping change—especially since overcoming cancer will necessarily be occupying much of your energy. That’s fine; baby steps are a lot better than nothing. As long as you’re working toward a better life you’re on the right path.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey
True vehement love is at the opposite side of sanity.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
It’s important to cultivate friendships. Whether you are an extrovert or an introvert, as a human you are a social being. For the sake of your mental and emotional health, it’s important to be honest about and honor your need for meaningful connections.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey
Every moment of this experience we call a physical life is determined by the choices you make in your thoughts, intentions, and actions. Thus, when you choose to experience a thought, image, or activity from a place of loving, joyful, and compassionate intentions for yourself and others, you have the power to weave a lovely fabric that heals your mind, body, and soul. When you choose differently, the fabric you weave may contribute to an experience of suffering and pain in the form of mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual anguish. The choice is always yours.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey
Because you are an energetic being and your thoughts and feelings are energy, your journey may be compared to an intricately woven fabric. As the weaver of the fabric of your life, you alone decide whether your life will be beautifully intertwined with threads of gold and silver and blended with the colors of the rainbow, or made with strands of straw and cotton in shades of grays, browns, and other dark, heavy colors.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey
Give yourself permission to stop existing and start growing. We all need more than work for self-actualization. Remember that interests and hobbies aren’t frivolous
—  they’re necessary for fulfillment and health.
Many people make their way through life acting as though they are ‘alone.’ They never progress beyond the lower realms of vibrational energy—and thus experience more discord, fear, stress, and ill health—because they don’t allow intuition, higher wisdom, and unconditional (Divine) love to enter into their lives and guide their decisions.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey
You raise the level of universal well-being by choosing to focus with gratitude on your blessings.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey
Your health, your experiences, and your life do not have to be at the mercy of your negative emotions. When you consciously choose to focus on a thought or belief that is positive, comforting, or hopeful, you’re clearing out that emotional clutter that’s weighing you down. You’re energetically shifting yourself to a better place.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey
Your happiness—and your healing—are a function of how you choose to respond on the inside to that which is taking place on the outside.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey
You have the power to feel good—or not—just by being conscious of what you choose to think. Choose to focus on hope and healing.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey
When you choose self-love, you are reclaiming your awareness of your own power, which raises your vibrational energy and contributes to your healing.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey
Focusing on thoughts or images that make you feel good will enable you to be at a higher level energetically and, consequently, will draw to you a higher level of vibrational experience. In other words, positive thoughts will attract positive experiences. The reverse is also true. If you’ve fallen into the habit of negative obsessing and/or fear-based thinking, you need to know that you can shift to a healthier, happier mindset.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey
One of the best things about gratitude is that it serves both you and the one to whom you are giving thanks. When you share your feelings of being blessed and grateful, not only do you vibrate at higher level, but your expression contributes to an increase in the energy of those around you, and especially serves the individual to whom you have expressed your thanks. The result is that you raise the level of universal well-being by choosing to focus with gratitude on your blessings.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey
Each person’s journey is different. If something—anything—does not feel right to you, then you alone get to decide whether you will honor it or not. The choice of how to respond to your situation is yours—and will always be yours.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey
Healing is anything that restores your inner sense that all is well, and that returns you to a healthy state of empowerment.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey
Healing is about wholeness and harmony. I deﬁne healing as anything that contributes to you feeling greater balance, harmony, wholeness, and well-being. In other words, you experience healing when you feel good; and healing is what you need any time you feel that you are out of balance—be it tired, stressed, fearful, or worried—or when you sense a disconnection between your mind, body, and spirit.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey
Your life is shaped by the thoughts and experiences you choose—and make no mistake, the decision is always yours. I promise, when you learn to be conscious and in control of what you are focusing on, you can begin to create high vibrational experiences, which will transform and heal your life.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey
It is when you stop resisting and choose an attitude of acceptance and positivity that you are able to shift your energetic experience to a higher plane and thereby attract and allow in experiences that are more in alignment with your hopes and dreams.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey
Negative feelings weigh you down and can keep you from experiencing healing, as surely as stones might weigh you down if you were trying to swim.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey
Wellbeing is all about balance. Unfortunately, the normal modern lifestyle (which actually isn’t normal at all) often pushes us away from what’s healthy and manageable, and prompts us to make decisions that overload our bodies and minds. As a society, we are just too busy, too stressed, too consumed with so-called success, too worried about our looks and our image, and not plugged in at all to our spiritual and emotional roots.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey
It may seem paradoxical, but you really do experience greater happiness when you choose to stop trying to control everything. And on a spiritual level, you evolve by learning the power of surrender and of love.
— Susan Barbara Apollon, An Inside Job: A Psychologist Shares Healing Wisdom for Your Cancer Journey
The only personYou shouldn't be ableTo live withoutIs you.
— Chris Mc Geown
There is no cowardice in removing yourself from a wildly unhealthy and unwinnable situation . . . You shouldn't feel like you have to play . . . you don't owe anyone anything. You don't have to be available to everyone. You can stop.
— Scaachi Koul, One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter
Always be you! Just never think you can always be you without consequence.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
We each bring our own unique beauty to the world, and how blessed we are to have the freedom to find that beauty in each other.
— Heather K. O'Hara, The Path of Songs: A Gift for the Soul
It is in the last step that one finds the unfathomable beginning; it is in the aloneness that one discovers himself never alone; it is in the deep silence that one hears the hidden music—the chant of eternity, the illuminated whisper of love.
— Heather K. O'Hara, The Path of Songs: A Gift for the Soul
A message from Love: Write my name in silent script upon your heart; and then… go anywhere, and be what you have written.
— Heather K. O'Hara, The Path of Songs: A Gift for the Soul
Celebrate one soul, touch one heart, light one lamp; and the whole universe moves.
— Heather K. O'Hara, The Path of Songs: A Gift for the Soul
Your medal is there already in your heart, in how you think, feel and act toward yourself.
— Catherine Louise Birmingham, Ride for Life; The Three Golden Principles for Riders
There was always so much I didnt know, but not knowing was part of it all.
— Nnedi Okarafor
Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
We truly can reconfigure how we see ourselves and reclaim the love for ourselves that we’re innately capable of.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
Although love is often depicted as starry-eyed and sweet, love for the self is made of tougher stuff.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
How can they love me ,if I can't even love myself?
— Rokaya Hajjaji
I think about all the ways I’ve been perceived by others over the years: as a burden, a dutiful daughter, a girlfriend, a spiteful wretch, an inva
— Christina Baker Kline
You must befriend a few skeletons before you'll find your deepest self.
— Curtis Tyrone Jones
Be unapologetically you.....Don't apologize for who you are or what you are. Just be YOU and those that matter will be drawn to you and those that aren't will not matter.
— Nanette Mathews
Some of us don't stay long enough in one single place, relationship, journey or country but that does not mean we evade reality or makes us unstable. It simply means, we are not very keen to entertain ourselves, for long periods of time, with the same old same old reflections or shadows on the wall, when aware of the existence of the sun; the price for enlightenment, solitude
— EfratCybulkiewicz
Embrace the flow of your life path, living with grace and ease while showing love towards yourself and others along your journey.
— Nanette Mathews
When you feel as if you should conform and be like everyone else....Remember that you were born to stand out and be your uniquely beautiful and talented self.
— Nanette Mathews
When things are challenging, remember you are not the feelings and emotions. They are just a reaction to the situation, so accept them and try to find the root source and ease that pain - The core essence of you is a beautiful, unique, authentic spirit and you are worth of everything in life.
— Nanette Mathews
When we accept the labels placed on us by ourselves and others, we then restrict and limit ourselves based on those labels. Break free from them and reclaim your unlimited potential to be your amazing self.
— Nanette Mathews
Faith in Providence is faith in one's own worth, … [H]ence also false humility, religious arrogance, which, it is true, does not rely on itself, but only because it commits the care of itself to the blessed God. God … wills that I shall be blest; but that is my will also: … God's love for me [is] nothing else than my own self-love deified.
— Ludwig Feuerbach, The Essence of Christianity
maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself
— Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star
The biggest battle in life is to change the negative stories we tell ourselves
— Melanie Greenberg
...and if this samskara has taught me anything, it's that only when you've opened your heart to the love that already surrounds you can you begin to see it elsewhere
— Elizabeth Garbee
It was hard to remember what I'd been so scared of. Being treated differently? Lack of acceptance? I was the one who hadn't accepted myself for who I was. I was the one who needed to be comfortable in my own skin. I hoped I could do that moving forward.
— Kasie West, By Your Side
The difference between self love and being in love with yourself is that one results in giving and the other in taking.
— Jeffrey Fry
Loving yourself is the most fulfilling and beautiful love that life has to offer.Unfortunately, we're all looking to love someone else..we're all looking to be loved by someone else, first.
— Reyna Mays, I Love My Love
Never let your desire for love override your sense of self and value.
— Izey Victoria Odiase
Self love is very much required to overcome tremendous pressure set up by the society to have certain things more materialistic and less emotional.The world we live is more fake and less real.People buy stuff to impress others, desperately go in relationsips, do whatever is the so called trend not because it is required but to show everyone that they are indeed a part of this so called made up society.The truth is they're just too scared to be left out.Be okay to be left out, do what makes you happy and not others.Make sure mental happiness is achieved.
— Alamvusha
One of the best ways you can fight discrimination is by taking good care of yourself. Your survival is not just important
—  it's an act of revolution.
I am worthy of touch without bartering my self worth.
— Alfa H
We say we love self While pimping out our pussyYet, our wombs scream help.
— Sanjo Jendayi
sStip settling for someone who doesn't meet your expectations and find someone whom already holds the characteristics you're looking for.
— Nikki Rowe
Love yourself. You don’t need a man, or a boy, or a self-proclaimed love expert to tell you what you’re worth. Your power comes from who you are and what you do. You don’t need all that noise – that constant hum in the background telling you whether or not you’re good enough.
— Amy Schumer, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
When you love yourself you won't need to ask God if someone is being honest with you. You will know already because you wouldn't have asked him if you had the self confidence to know how people should treat you.
— Shannon L. Alder
It seems like I want them to like me for my mind, anyway," she said, "so why not let them go straight for it? Why get them to like my legs? It doesn't seem like that's me. I feel like what I look like is government issue, it's pretty much out of my hands. But I invent the stuff I say. That's me.
— Carrie Fisher, Postcards from the Edge
Too many people in this world think small is the best they can do. Not you, Libby Strout. You weren't born for small! You don't know how to do small! Small is not in you!
— Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe
You're either self-appreciating or self-depreciating. There is no middle.
— Lana M. H. Wilder
The stars are in your favor, darling, you can't be horrible. Nope, they won't let you.
— Suki Kim, The Interpreter
I'm perfectly natural the way I am. Why can't you humans ever understand that I might not want to be afflicted with gender?
— Carolyn Ives Gilman, Halfway Human
Never spend more time worrying about somebody or some situation (that plays no significant role in your life) more than you do about yourself.
— Carlos Wallace, The Other 99 T.Y.M.E.S: Train Your Mind to Enjoy Serenity
Self-love is beginning but others-love is the end. Self-love is important but insufficient.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
Dear YOU, don’t compare yourself to ANYONE. Your Unique Self is empowered, powerful, and unstoppable! Your uniqueness is what makes you incomparable! Don’t underestimate the beauty of just being YOU.
— Stephanie Lahart
The purpose of this glorious life is not simply to endure it, but to soar, stumble, and flourish as you learn to fall in love with existence. We were born to live, my dear, not to merely exist.
— Becca Lee
There is no great reward for being emotionally withdrawn, no pity prize for bottling your frustration. No one is coming to congratulate your chronic self-repression. By opening up, maybe you will inconvenience some people. Maybe you will trigger some conflict. Maybe you will be rejected, criticized, judged. Everything comes with a price and everything has its compensation. Authenticity may require pain, but it also opens the doors to joy, creativity, self-respect, empathy. Self-repression, on the other hand, costs you all the beauty of the world in exchange for a prison of comfort. Is it really worth it? Isn't it time to break free?
— Vironika Tugaleva
There is no way to genuinely, powerfully, truly love yourself while crafting a mask of perfection. I know, you know, we all know—it's hard to let your pimples and your flaws be seen. It's hard to stumble and bumble. It's hard to not know the right things to do or say. It's hard to not look like TV.Sometimes, it's really hard for me to be the awkward mess that I am when I'm authentic, instead of having runway authenticity—all natural, but flawless. But every time I allow that to be okay, not just around myself but around others—I affirm something to myself. I affirm, to myself more than anyone else, that I am lovable and acceptable unconditionally. I affirm that it's okay to take on and take in all the flavours and hues of human experience, and not just the ones that are acceptable in this culture, in this time, in this place.And that kind of acceptance, that kind of love—that's the kind of love that creates miracles. That's the kind of love I really need. That's the kind of love that makes approval taste like cardboard.
— Vironika Tugaleva
When you judge yourself, chances are you also are judging others. True self-acceptance releases you from both.
— Akiroq Brost
In order to accept yourself, you must first have some sense of who you are.
— Akiroq Brost
Stop pretending to be something you're not. FREE YOURSELF. You are good enough just the way you are.
— Karen A. Baquiran
sometimes you have to dismantle your life to find your passion.
— Jennifer Pierre
Cultivating self-love is an odyssey with moments of difficulty and joy. It's an excursion into knowing ourselves, learning to accept and deal with what we discover... and struggling with our fear of allowing in a little madness to set us free.
— Bud Harris, Sacred Selfishness: A Guide to Living a Life of Substance
Self-love is crucial for the betterment of our lives and for a higher quality of life.
— Akiroq Brost
I laugh at myself. It's so important to laugh at yourself. Have a little heart chuckle, cry a few tears. It's OK! Don't apologize for being you. Just be you. Be true to who you are and who you want to be!
— Akiroq Brost
there is you and you.this is a relationship.this is the most important relationship.
— Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
Compassion is essential, but it’s not a substitute for self-expression, or self-respect, or self-compassion. Emotional self-care is also essential, but gently soothing our wounds does not replace communicating about them.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Imagine what could happen if we all had the heart to be who we truly are.
— Eleanor Brown, The Light of Paris
Everyone has a price”, as they say. So let the price on your tag say “PRICELESS” “INVALUABLE” “IRREPLACEABLE”.
— Omoakhuana Anthonia
Loving ourselves is not some frothy sentiment. Nor is it an egotistical self-centerdness. It is obedience, obedience to the commandments of God that have to do with self.
— J. Grant Howard, Balancing Life's Demands: A New Perspective on Priorities
...unless you value yourself, you won't have the motivation to exercise, get enough sleep, eat healthfully, and care for yourself.
— Doreen Virtue
I will live this life the only way I know how. With love at its core. With love in my heart.
— E. Katherine Kottaras, The Best Possible Answer
Never force yourself on another. If you do this, then this is you trampling on your own dignity without the external help.
— Omoakhuana Anthonia
There's definitely one person in this world I know I can count on. She's there in the mirror.
— E. Katherine Kottaras, The Best Possible Answer
I know my worth. I embrace my power. I say if I’m beautiful. I say if I’m strong. You will not determine my story. I will. I'll speak and share and fuck and love, and I will never apologise for it. I am amazing for you, not because of you. I am not who I sleep with. I am not my weight. I am not my mother. I am myself. And I am all of you.
— Amy Schumer, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
A person imbued with compassion and self-understanding can readily love oneself and exhibit endless sympathy for all people. A person who is unkind to their self can never transcend their corrupt barriers much less run into the world with open arms enthusiastically embracing humankind and all of nature with uninhibited friendliness and goodwill.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Have patience with everything unresolved in you heart and try to love the questions themselves. It is possible to live and not know.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
I choose to let positive attitudes lighten my being today.
— Maureen Brady, Daybreak: Meditations For Women Survivors Of Sexual Abuse
When you learn to love yourself, you teach those around to love themselves. And that will be what changes our world.
— Eileen Anglin
Moreover, you can’t stand so much as an hour of your own companyor spend your leisure properly; you avoid yourself like a truantor fugitive, hoping by drink or sleep to elude Angst.But it’s no good, for that dark companion stays on your heels
— Horace, The Satires of Horace
Do not expect to receive love from someone else you do not give yourself
— bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Without our individual kinks we would all be flat as boards.
— Ec31
It’s okay to not be perfect and not to have everything figured out. It’s okay to feel things that are shameful, hate, and feel guilty. I feel like the message we’ve tried to stand by, is that it’s basically okay to have scars and to show them. To show that you’ve been through all sorts of things and have come out a different and better person because of it.
— Hayley Williams
When you recognize that you will thrive not in spite of your losses and sorrows, but because of them, that you would not have chosen the things that happened in your life, but you are grateful for them, that you will hold the empty bowls eternally in your hands, but you also have the capacity to fill them?THE WORD FOR THAT IS HEALING.
— Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough
Every person’s story contains chapters of pain and loss, victory and defeat, love and hate, pride and prejudice, courage and fear, faith and self-distrust, charity and kindness, selfishness and jealously. Every person’s story also contains folios of hopefulness and truthfulness, deceit and despair, action and change, passion and compassion, excitement and boredom, birth and creation, mutation and defect, generation and preservation, delusions and illusions, imagination and fantasy, bafflement and puzzlement. What makes a person’s selfsame story unique is how he or she organizes the pure and impure forces that comprise them, how they respond to internal and external crisis, if they act in a safeguarding and humble manner, or lead a self-seeking and destructive existence.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I want to save the world but I haven't worked out a way to save myself yet.
— Rae Earl, My Madder Fatter Diary
I scroll through iPhone photos and see that if I delete pictures of myself with a double chin, I will erase all proof of my glorious life.
— Helen Ellis
Learn to be alone. Learn to love being alone. Learn you as you're alone with yourself.
— Erica Alex
Do you to the best of your ability with love, passion and purpose. The right tribe of people will fall into your life.
— April WIlliams, What You Should Know About Network Marketing Before Investing Your Time, Energy and Money
Today is a good day to tackle a fear and make yourself proud.
— April WIlliams, What You Should Know About Network Marketing Before Investing Your Time, Energy and Money
It was like diving into winter waves. "I can't," I told him."Why not?""Because I need to find out who I am by myself before I can be with anyone else.
— Louise Hawes, The Language of Stars
Apathy is, too often, a result of overexposure to stressful, highly emotional situations. To rekindle empathy, sometimes we need some space. It's okay to walk away so that you can feel love for someone again. Sometimes for a moment. Sometimes forever.
— Vironika Tugaleva
If someone keeps bringing you down, perhaps it's time to get up and leave
— Karen Salmansohn
My happiness will not be ruined by people who can not find their own.
— April WIlliams, What You Should Know About Network Marketing Before Investing Your Time, Energy and Money
No one's approval is enough to make up for a lack of self-love, which is really a lack of self-awareness.When we feel a desire to be loved, it isn't other people's love we need. It's our own relationship with love that we're longing for, our own awareness of being interconnected with others, our own sense of the magic of our own interwoven existence. To seek the fulfillment of this desire in others' approval is a losing battle. It will never be enough. No one can compliment you enough to supplement for the acceptance that you need from your own self, in each moment. Acceptance for your struggles and your talents. Acceptance for your humanity. Celebration of that humanity.Love is an inside job.
— Vironika Tugaleva
The less approval I get, the more chances I have to develop a relationship with my inner sense of approval. Thankless environments are actually useful for this. They help me discover my own thankfulness and my own self-appreciation.
— Vironika Tugaleva
I wish that people would stop destroying other people just because they were once destroyed.
— Karen Salmansohn
Be yourself. An original is always worth more than a copy.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
One of the most difficult things I ever did was learn to support myself through my whole range of emotional experiences without running away.
— Vironika Tugaleva
Please do not become so hurt by life that when someone loving comes along, or something good happens, you resist allowing the love and joy in.
— Karen Salmansohn
Embrace your weirdness. Some will adore you. Others won't. But who cares? Worry about loving yourself, not loving the idea of other people loving you.
— Karen Salmansohn
What's life without whim's?
— David Gatata
Don't worry about the ones who don't recognize your worth. Not everyone has an eye for talent.
— April WIlliams, What You Should Know About Network Marketing Before Investing Your Time, Energy and Money
Because when you stop worrying about what anyone else things, life gets a whole lot easier".
— April WIlliams, What You Should Know About Network Marketing Before Investing Your Time, Energy and Money