1.
Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone.
Elijah Muhammad
'Prioritizing oneself is paramount; the person who attempts to love all will inevitably love none.'
2.
Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way.
Lady Gaga
Do not let others darken your sparkle because they are unable to see it. Instruct them to don some shades as we were made this way.
3.
I used to care about how I looked. Now I don’t care as much. Maybe it’s because I’m so handsome.
James Franco
'I used to be concerned with my appearance. Now I'm not as worried. Maybe it's because of my good looks.'
4.
Love other human beings as you would love yourself.
Ho Chi Minh
Treat others with the same respect and kindness that you would give to yourself.
5.
The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!
Rumi
7.
Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world.
T. Harv Eker
8.
Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.
Tyra Banks
10.
The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.
Robert Hand
11.
Then let yourself love all that you take delight in
Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage
That shaped you and is passed on from age to age
Down to your entity. Remain mysterious;
Rather than be pure, accept yourself as numerous.
John Ashbery
12.
If you’re going to enjoy the picnic that life really is, you’d better learn to like yourself not despite your flaws and so-called deficits, but because of them.
Paul Orfalea
14.
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
15.
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
16.
I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.
Drew Barrymore
17.
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
18.
What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.
Geneen Roth
19.
I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.
Brené Brown
20.
The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.
Janet Jackson
21.
The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful.
Rajneesh
23.
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
24.
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
25.
Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?
Francis Bacon
26.
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
27.
There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!"
William James
28.
Live for yourself. Love those around you - but realise they have their own agendas.
Alex Gaskarth
29.
Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything.
Brian Tracy
30.
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
31.
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
32.
To allow yourself your own experience is the greatest act of self love
John Welwood
33.
You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.
Pearl Bailey
35.
When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.
Luigi Pirandello
38.
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
Ani DiFranco
39.
Whatever we can't love or accept in another, is a mirror of something we can't love or accept in ourselves.
Brenda Shoshanna
42.
Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)
Stephen Levine
43.
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
44.
Know yourself. Feel yourself. Love yourself. Respect yourself. Take good care of yourself. You are your most precious possession on Earth.
Robert Muller
46.
The good thing about love is nobody can stop you from loving them.
Joseph Simmons
47.
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
49.
Happiness depends on ourselves.
Aristotle
50.
Look into a mirror, make eye contact with yourself, and say "I love me" as many times as possible during the day.
Wayne Dyer