Self Love Quotes

Our concern for the loss of our friends is not always from a sense of their worth, but rather of our own need of them and that we have lost some who had a good opinion of us.

Even the most disinterested love is, after all, but a kind of bargain, in which self-love always proposes to be the gainer one wayor another.

The secret of pleasing in conversation is not to explain too much everything; to say them half and leave a little for divination is a mark of the good opinion we have of others, and nothing flatters their self-love more.

We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.

Forgive yourself - no one else will.

I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.

Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me, if I do that well enough, then I'll be able to look after someone else -- the children or the husband or the elderly. But I have to look after myself first. I know that some people think that's being selfish, I think that's being self-full.

We sometimes imagine we hate flattery, but we only hate the way we are flattered.

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. Let go of standards of perfection and refuse to use up the precious currency of your life, the now, with thoughts that continue to frustrate and weaken you. Instead, vow to be better than you used to be, which is the true test of nobility.

We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough... You're worthy because you are born and because you are here. Your being here, your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.

It seems that for some people the idea of compassion entails a complete disregard for or even a sacrifice of their own interests. This is not the case. In fact, you first of all have to have a wish to be happy yourself - if you don't love yourself like that, how can you love others?

What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.

Forgive yourself and welcome love back into your life.

I love myself...I love you. I love you...I love myself.

The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants.

If you #‎ love love, look for yourself.

Whatever discoveries we may have made in the regions of self-love, there still remain many unknown lands.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.

Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.

Loving yourself involves the discovery of the true wonder of you; not only the present you, but the many possibilities of you. It involves the continual realization that you are unique, like no other person in the world, that life is, or should be, the discovery, the development and the sharing of this uniqueness.

I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself.

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

What you have despised in yourselfas a thorn opens into a rose.

The breeding we give young people is ordinarily but an additional self-love, by which we make them have a better opinion of themselves.

I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.

Only make decisions that support your self-image, self-esteem, and self-worth.

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.

Give yourself a kiss. If you want to hold the beautiful one, hold yourself.

Loving Others Starts with Loving Myself

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

I have never loved a man as much as I have loved myself

You need to be happy with yourself or you'll never be able to be happy in a relationship.

The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.

One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.

I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to seserve that you should.

To love yourself is a never-ending journey.

Be loving to yourself and others will see that love reciprocated. This rule works every time

We can only give away to others what we have inside ourselves.

Live from the heart of yourself

What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-love.

All forgiveness is self forgiveness.

When women take care of their health they become their own best friend.

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones.

We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?

Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves.

She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

Don't wait for someone else to complete you. 'Jerry Maguire' was just a movie.

Treat yourself and others with kindness when you eat, exercise, play, work, love, and everything else. When you think, feel, and act kindly, you hasten your ability to connect to the power of intention.

Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.