Self Love famous quotes
06-22-2025
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There is a self-love solution for every challenge.
-- Abiola Abrams -
It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.
-- Alan Watts -
True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person.
-- Albert Camus -
Live for yourself. Love those around you - but realise they have their own agendas.
-- Alex Gaskarth -
Thus God and nature linked the gen'ral frame, And bade self-love and social be the same.
-- Alexander Pope -
I always knew mum loved me - tough, look-after-yourself love, as if she knew she wouldn't always be there.
-- Alexandra Fuller -
God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
Long tresses down to the floor can be beautiful, but learn to love what you have.
-- Anita Baker -
I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life.
-- Anthony Perkins -
Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge, prompt us to draw conclusions which are not immediately derived from facts.
-- Antoine Lavoisier -
The world is governed by love,--self-love.
-- Antoine Rivarol -
But love is something that has to be as selfish as it is unselfish. You can't make yourself love someone because you feel like you should. Just wanting to love someone isn't enough.
-- Aprilynne Pike -
Give me the death of my soul. Intoxicate me with self-love.
-- Austin Osman Spare -
The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.
-- Bell Hooks -
Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.
-- Bell Hooks -
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
-- Bill Russell -
When you are willing to shine the light of love onto the parts that you are not proud of - onto the unaccepted parts, the unloved parts, the unwanted emotions, into all the darkened corners of your soul - love will suffuse them, embrace them, until you are left as nothing but love itself. Love arises when you expose everything.
-- Brandon Bays -
Whatever we can't love or accept in another, is a mirror of something we can't love or accept in ourselves.
-- Brenda Shoshanna -
Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.
-- Brian Tracy -
Know yourself. Be yourself. Love yourself. Seek goodness and be goodness. Seek beauty and be beauty. Seek love and be love.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
She better liked to see him free and happy, even than to have him near her, because she loved him better than herself.
-- Charles Dickens -
Acknowledging and accepting whatever stuff you may have to let go comes easier when you love yourself.
-- Darren Johnson -
The sad truth is that among today's evangelicals it is not loving and esteeming God but self-love and self-esteem that are presented as the pressing need!
-- Dave Hunt -
Love really is the answer to human problems: love of oneself, love of others, love of where one is, love of what one is doing, love of nature, love of life, love of the world, love of spirit in all its wonder and splendor. Love sets our energy free. It opens us and puts us in a flow with spirit and life on many levels. Love is the true secret behind manifestation.
-- David Spangler -
So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there...
-- Deborah Cox -
If you create any open space within yourself, love will fill it.
-- Deepak Chopra -
To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others.
-- Deepak Chopra -
I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.
-- Drew Barrymore -
But I really love music, and having a creative outlet is really the best thing you can do for yourself.
-- Edie Brickell -
What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
Love is a command to rise to one's highest potential ... the best and noblest vision of ourselves. Love is a reward. The greatest we can earn. Granted to us for the moral qualities we have achieved in our lives.
-- Helen Mirren -
Women are always being tested ... but ultimately, each of us has to define who we are individually and then do the very best job we can to grow into it.
-- Hillary Clinton -
Love other human beings as you would love yourself.
-- Ho Chi Minh -
Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.
-- Honore de Balzac -
The wounds of self-love turn incurable when the oxide of self-love gets into them.
-- Honore de Balzac -
I'll go my way by myself, love is only a dance.
-- Howard Dietz -
You protect your being when you love yourself better. That's the secret.
-- Isabelle Adjani -
Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them.
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
Know thyself. Accept thyself. Love thyself. No matter what you have done, where you have been, know, accept, and love who you are.
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
...who proved that you don't have to do what your parents want, or what your boyfriend wants, for you to be happy. You just have to be yourself, for there is no love greater than self love
-- Jack Gantos -
The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.
-- Janet Jackson -
Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out.
-- Jenn Proske -
It is essential that our love be liberating, not possessive. We must at all times give those we love the freedom to be themselves. Love affirms the other as other. It does not possess and manipulate another as mine.
-- John Powell -
...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.
-- John Steinbeck -
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
-- Joseph Butler -
Self-love then does not constitute THIS or THAT to be our interest or good; but, our interest or good being constituted by nature and supposed, self-love only puts us upon obtaining and securing it.
-- Joseph Butler -
The good thing about love is nobody can stop you from loving them.
-- Joseph Simmons -
If you don't like yourself, you're going to have a really hard time getting along with anyone else.
-- Joyce Meyer -
If you're not at peace with yourself, you can't be at peace with anyone else.
-- Joyce Meyer -
We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.
-- Judith Viorst -
Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
-- Karolina Kurkova -
Love is never outside ourselves; love is within us.
-- Louise Hay -
The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . . Love of oneself becomes love of the species. Conscience is pointed to the future, whispering permission to reach beyond the safety net of our ordinary and finite human existence.
-- Louise J. Kaplan -
When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.
-- Luigi Pirandello -
I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
-- Madonna Ciccone -
When you meet anyone, remember it is a holy encounter. As you see him, you will see yourself. As you treat him, you will treat yourself. As you think of him, you will think of yourself. Never forget this, for in him you will find yourself or lose yourself.
-- Marianne Williamson -
Love wishes to perpetuate itself. Love wishes for immortality.
-- Mortimer Adler -
Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another.
-- Ovid -
If there is a panacea, or cure-all to life, it is self love.
-- Paul Solomon -
You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.
-- Pearl Bailey -
Nothing is so strong as gentleness.
-- Ralph Washington Sockman -
No one can love you until you love yourself, and you cannot love anyone else, until you love yourself.
-- Raymond Charles Barker -
Love thyself, so that you can love another. Love thyself so that you cannot project fear. Love thyself so as to let others love you. Love thyself so as to let people near.
-- Robert Holden -
To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.
-- Robert Morley -
You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.
-- Saint Augustine -
You don't discipline yourself to attain the feeling of love. You attain the feeling of love and then you want to discipline yourself because you love the discipline, because it brings more love.
-- Sivaya Subramuniyaswami -
A successful man has the following qualities: A smile that doesn't die; patience; fearless mind; love; self- confidence; love for everybody.
-- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar -
Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)
-- Stephen Levine -
The source of our love comes from within. No one out there is that source. It makes sense to go to the source.
-- Susan Jeffers -
Self-love is the starting point for everything.
-- Susan L. Taylor -
You can always get someone to love you - even if you have to do it yourself.
-- Thomas Lansing Masson -
Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.
-- Tyra Banks -
If you want to conquer lust for wealth, love selflessness and sparing way of life.
-- Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov -
Failure is a judgment, an opinion. It stems from your fears, which can be eliminated by love-love for yourself, love for what you do, love for others, and love for your planet.
-- Wayne Dyer -
The same is true of Love, and the instinctive desire to please those whom we love. The teacher who succeeds in getting herself loved by the pupils will obtain results which one of a more forbidding temperament finds it impossible to secure.
-- William James -
The power of self goes beyond words. Self confidence, self improvement, self esteem, self enhancement, self love ... Get yourself right first!
-- Behdad Sami -
Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.
-- Deborah Day -
Make a pledge to yourself right now, to declare that you are worth your time and energy.
-- Deborah Day -
Telling a one-sided story doesn't allow for others to have self-love.
-- Ilyasah Shabazz -
Great performers in all fields seem immune to what outsiders think about them. Their sense of themselves never depends on the feedback-positive or negative-they get from the environment.
-- John Eliot -
As you get older, it's always a process of self-love, learning how to really do that for yourself instead of trying to find it outside yourself.
-- Lela Loren -
If you don't respect yourself, don't expect others to respect you.
-- Bobbie Thomas -
I myself love getting cookbooks and novels that some congenial person has already tried and liked.
-- Cheryl Mendelson -
If you don't have self love you can never find it outside of yourself.
-- David Koechner -
You can only experience love if you have self love.
-- David Koechner -
Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone.
-- Elijah Muhammad -
Love is only a dance. I'll try to apply myself And teach my heart how to sing. I'll go my way by myself Like a bird on the wing I'll face the unknown, I'll build a world of my own; No one knows better than I myself I'm by myself alone.
-- Howard Dietz
