Our relationship with ourselves is perhaps one of the most important one. After all, we have our own company, forever. Even as ‘self care’ and ‘self love’ seems to be trending all across social media, how many of us truly succeed at this ‘love yourself’ game?
Well, it’s easier said than done.
It takes forever to learn to accept our flaws. It takes forever to truly forgive ourselves for our past. But, it’s totally worth it.
Self love is a beautiful journey inwards. Here is a compilation of 250+ love yourself quotes that will help you build a loving relationship with yourself.
- “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Gustav Jung
- “Scarcity of self-value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.” – Gary Zukav
- “Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
- “You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations.” – Suzy Kassem
- “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
- “When you’re constantly thinking of others and what they must be thinking or feeling or expecting, you wind up in this perpetual state of trying to please them. You see yourself through their eyes and you lose sight of who you are.” – Michael Soll, Scorched
- “Don’t let hollow heroes distract you from saving yourself.” – Nikki Rowe
- “Dismantle your wounds so you stop living your life by them.” – Nikki Rowe
- “I celebrate myself, and sing myself.” – Walt Whitman
- “Love yourself and dream bigger.” – Teresa Collins
- “You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.” – Yogi Bahaman
- “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” – William James
- “I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.” – Louise Hay
- “There are women who struggle to gain weight who are beautiful. There are women who struggle to LOSE weight who are beautiful. You know who is the most beautiful? Those who learn to love themselves the way they are. You don’t need to change for ANYONE.” – Teresa Mummer
- “It isn’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.” – W.C. Fields
- “When admiring other people’s gardens, don’t forget to tend to your own flowers.” – Sandbar Khan
- “Words always remain words, the world will change” – Mayan Kumar Louteriya
- “Love others to make them feel better and so that you see yourself in the mirrors of their eyes.” – Debasish Mridha
- “To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.” – Alan Cohen
- “You can never meet your potential until you truly learn to love yourself.” – Teresa Collins
- “We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.” – Mary Dunbar
- “To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
- “Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it” – Thaddeus Golas
- “Sometimes you have to be alone to truly know your worth.” – Karen A. Baquiran
- “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
- “You can receive all the compliments in the world, but that won’t do a thing unless you believe it yourself.” – Criss Jami
Love Yourself Quotes About Respect And Value
27. “Respect, Love, and Value yourself. Always remember to be good to yourself by taking care of yourself. Make yourself a priority and know that it’s okay. Don’t feel guilty for loving yourself, first! You’re just as important as anybody else.” – Stephanie Lahart
28. “Maybe if we love ourselves healthy we will all heal?” – Nikki Rowe
29. “Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.” – William Shakespeare, Henry V.
Love Yourself Quotes And Sayings
30. “The absence of self-love can never be replaced with the presence of people’s love for you.” – Edmond Mbiaka
31. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. “Our entire life … consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.” – Jean Anouih
33. “There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.” – Hindu Proverb
34. “Love only yourself a little bit longer, until you can’t stand not to love someone else.” – Kiera Cass
35. “Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
36. “Love yourself enough to have a meaningful life.” – Millen Livis
Love Yourself Quotes That Will Make You Stronger
37. “We must fall in love with ourselves. I don’t like myself. I’m crazy about myself.” – Mae West
38. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anyone.” – Maya Angelou
39. “Just be, and enjoy being.” – Eckhart Tolle
40. “The moment you know yourself you have known the most precious thing in existence.” – Osho
41. “Respect yourself, love yourself, because there has never been a person like you and there never will be again.” – Osho
42. “Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.” – Osho
43. “You start to live the moment you stop competing with others.” – Maxime Lagacé
44. “You can’t really love someone else unless you really love yourself first.” –Fred Rogers
45. “The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful.” – Osho
46. “Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.” – Tina Fey
47. “Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” – Lao Tzu
48. “Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.” – Michel de Montaigne
49. “All you really need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.” – Eckhart Tolle
50. “Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you won’t do anything with it.” – M. Scott Peck
51. “You’re certainly somebody that people can love.” – Fred Rogers
The Best Love Yourself Quotes
52. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
53. “Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself.” – Tara Stiles
54. “If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others.” – Osho
55. “All people deserve your kindness, but none more so than you.” – Justin Kan
56. “I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.” – Maya Angelou
57. “The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.” – Pema Chödrön
58. “I have discovered, just as my teachers always told me, that we already have what we need. The wisdom, the strength, the confidence, the awakened heart and mind are always accessible, here, now, always.” – Pema Chödrön
59. “A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.” – Haruki Murakami
60. “You are morally obliged to take care of yourself. You should take care of, help and be good to yourself the same way you would take care of, help and be good to someone you loved and valued.” – Jordan Peterson
61. “If you live to please others, everyone will love you except yourself.” – Paulo Coelho
62. “No one knows how you treat yourself, but it’s the most important relationship you have.” – Bill Masur
63. “The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.” – Robert Hand
64. “You need time to think, time to dream, time to talk and time to do nothing at all.” – Brooke McAlary
65. “Seek your own love, not the love of others. You acquire the love of others on the way.” – @orangebook_
66. “Only when you are kinder to yourself, you can be kinder to the world.” – Haemin Sunim
67. “If you want to be faithful to someone or something, start by being faithful to yourself.” – Paulo Coelho
68. “Helping yourself, you help the world. You are in the world – you are the world. You are not different from the world, nor is the world different from you.” – Sri Ramana Maharshi
69. “A true sign of greatness: you are not bothered by others’ brilliance, nor are you afraid to share your own with others. You are secure in the knowledge that no one can take away your unique gifts.” – @TheAncientSage
70. “Love yourself. Love the world. There is no power stronger than love.” – Deepak Chopra
71. “Feeling the oneness of yourself with all things is true love.” – Eckhart Tolle
72. “If I loved myself, truly and deeply, what would I do?” – Kamal Ravikant
The Most Famous Love Yourself Quotes
73. “To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.” – Oscar Wilde
74. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
75. “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” – Carl Jung
76. “Self-love is not so vile a sin as self-neglect.” – William Shakespeare
77. “Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.” – Michel de Montaigne
78. “Never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance in the world to pursue your dreams.” – Hillary Clinton
79. “I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.” – Johnny Depp
80. “Be gentle with yourself. You are doing the best you can.” – Paulo Coelho
81. “I, myself, am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.” – Augusten Burroughs
82. “Don’t be hard on yourself. Be kind.” – Yoko Ono
83. “Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
84. “We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create.” – John Lennon
85. “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
86. “You don’t need another person, place or thing to make you whole.” – Maya Angelou
87. “Love your neighbor as yourself.” – Mark
88. “If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.” – Maxwell Maltz
89. “The moment you see how important it is to love yourself, you will stop making others suffer.” – Buddha
90. “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” – Charles Bukowski
91. “I celebrate myself, and sing myself.” – Walt Whitman
92. “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” – Mark Twain
93. “It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.” – Sally Field
94. “There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin
Short Love Quotes
95. “Have mercy for yourself.” – Jack Kornfield
96. “Love is unconditional.” – Shane Parrish
97. “Know your chief fault.” – Baltasar Gracián
98. “Love is the great educator.” – Sigmund Freud
99. “Love yourself and dream bigger.” – Teresa Collins
100. “Surround yourself with electric people.” – George Raveling
101. “Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.” – Katrina Mayer
102. “As you love yourself, life loves you back.” – Kamal Ravikant
103. “Be kind to yourself. If you won’t, who will?” – Justin Kan
104. “Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect.” – Brené Brown
105. “Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” – Brené Brown
106. “You can listen to the crowd or you can just be yourself.” – Thibaut
107. “A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.” – Osho
108. “Love is without motive, without a purpose. Love is its own reward.” – Osho
Inspirational And Positive Love Yourself Quotes
109. “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.” – Helen Keller
110. “Be your own biggest fan. Love yourself and give yourself the things that you need.” – Mel Robbins
111. “It is absolutely necessary to flood your mind with positive thoughts about yourself.” – Iyanla Vanzant
112. “Remind yourself of all the ways you can be more loving, more supportive, and more encouraging to yourself.” – Iyanla Vanzant
113. “Send yourself a love letter and then take the time to read it to yourself. Express your heartfelt love to yourself.” – Iyanla Vanzant
114. “Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others.” – Brené Brown
115. “Be kinder to yourself and then let your kindness flood the world.” – Pema Chödrön
116. “To be alone is one of the most beautiful experiences. You are no more bothered by others; you are no more forcing yourself to do something which is expected.” – Osho
117. “To be a happy person, one has to drop all comparison. Drop all these stupid ideas of being superior and inferior. You are neither superior nor inferior. You are simply yourself! There exists no one like you, no one with whom you can be compared. Then, suddenly, you are at home.” – Osho
118. “The ultimate power in life is to be completely self-reliant, completely yourself.” – Robert Greene
119. “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball
120. “When you love yourself, you automatically attract feelings of love for others around you.” – Rhonda Byrne
121. “You were born an original work of art. Stay original always. Originals cost more than imitations.” – Suzy Kassem
122. “Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.” – Jean Vanier
123. “When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.” – Diane Von Furstenberg
124. “You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying.” – Steve Maraboli
125. “If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.” – Fred Rogers
126. “It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to.” – W.C. Fields
127. “What if you simply devoted this year to loving yourself more?” – Unknown
Funny And Suprising Love Yourself Quotes
128. “Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.” – Anne Lamott
129. “It’s important to feel crappy sometimes.” – Lilly Singh
130. “If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, “He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone”.- Epictetus
131. “Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.” – Osho
132. “F.L.Y. First Love Yourself. Others will come next.” – Unknown
133. “Self-love is the greatest middle finger of all time.” – Unknown
Deep Love Yourself Quotes
134. “Don’t be dependent. At all. Ever. Period.” – Jordan Peterson
135. “Love appears as relationship but begins in deep solitude.” – Osho
136. “Maturity comes only when you are ready to face the pain of your being; maturity comes only when you are ready to take the challenge. And there is no greater challenge than love.” – Osho
137. “It’s hard loving those who don’t much like themselves.” – Alain de Botton
138. “Man cannot control himself unless he accepts himself.” – Alan Watts
139. “Our problem is that we choose to deny love. In fact, we only have one problem: that our mind chooses fear over love.” – Gabby Bernstein
140. “To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.” – Brené Brown
141. “I’m not very good at giving anyone a clear no.” – Haruki Murakami
142. “The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.” – Louisa May Alcott
143. “Don’t carry the weight of the world upon your shoulders. Saving anyone or anything is not your responsibility.” – @LifeMathMoney
144. “If you have a hard time saying “I love you” it’s because you don’t love yourself.” – Pat Stedman
145. “Men are at war with each other because each man is at war with himself.” – Francis Meehan
146. “You cannot inadvertently allow yourself to feel obligated to anyone.” – Robert Greene
147. “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” – Maya Angelou
148. “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” – Roy T. Bennett
149. “If you don’t love yourself in a healthy way, you will never be able to love others in the way that you should.” – Joel Osteen
150. “The fact that someone else loves you doesn’t rescue you from the project of loving yourself.” – Sahaj Kohli
151. “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
152. “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” – Shannon L. Alder
153. “Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?” – Ian Wallace
154. “Do you love yourself just as you are?” – Deepak Chopra
Wise Love Yourself Quotes
155. “Treat yourself as if you were someone that you are responsible for helping.” – Jordan Peterson
156. “If I loved myself truly and deeply, would I let myself experience this?” – Kamal Ravikant
157. “The greatest way to live with honour in this world is to be what we pretend to be.” – Socrates
158. “Be aware of how you handle your mind. Be aware of how you treat yourself.” – Iyanla Vanzant
159. “Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already.” – Pema Chödrön
160. “Have you ever seen the stars in the night? See them closely, they will tell you, how to be open, how to love and how to shine and twinkle without any differences and jealousy of other stars.” – Santosh Kalwar
161. “It is better to do nothing than to do what is wrong. For whatever you do, you do to yourself.” – The Dhammapada
162. “Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
163. “The development of loving-kindness and compassion begins with learning how to appreciate oneself.” – Mingyur Rinpoche
164. “People ask if a more mindful, more self-forgiving mindset comes at cost to your drive to win. No, I think it’s makes that drive to win sustainable.” – Justin Kan
165.”Fools laugh at others. Wisdom laughs at itself.” – Osho
166. “You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” – Diane Von Furstenberg
167. “Spend time understanding who you are, after all the only person your ever going to truly live with; is yourself.” – Nikki Rowe
168. “Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.” – Les Brown
169. “I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.” – Henry James
170. “You can do hard things without being hard on yourself.” – Mel Robbins
171. “Meditation is a must before you can really love. One should be capable of being alone, utterly alone, and yet tremendously blissful. Then you can love.” – Osho
172. “Man becomes mature the moment he starts loving rather than needing. He starts overflowing, sharing; he starts giving.” – Osho
173. “Buddha is a Buddha, a Krishna is a Krishna, and you are you. And you are not in any way less than anybody else. Respect yourself, respect your own inner voice and follow it.” – Osho
174. “We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.” – Jack Kornfield
175. “If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” – Jack Kornfield
176.“Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you.” – Steve Maraboli
177. “Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?” – Ian Wallace
178. “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” – Roy T. Bennett
179. “It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.” – Germany Kent
180. “Wildflower; pick up your pretty little head, It will get easier, your dreams are not dead.” – Nikki Rowe
181. “Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are.” – Stephanie Lahart
182. “Love only yourself a little bit longer, until you can’t stand not to love someone else.” – Kiera Cass
183. “You have to learn to love yourself before you can love someone else. Because it’s only when we love ourselves that we feel worthy of someone else’s love.” – Alyssa B. Sheinmel
184. “No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love.” – Edmond Mbiaka
185. “We must fall in love with yourselves. I don’t like myself. I’m crazy about myself.” – Mae West
186. “I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.” – Johnny Depp
187. “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” – Roy T. Bennett
188. “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” – Carl Gustav Jung
189. “Scarcity of self-value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.” – Gary Zukav
190. “Respect, Love, and Value yourself. Always remember to be good to yourself by taking care of yourself. Make yourself a priority and know that it’s okay. Don’t feel guilty for loving yourself, first! You’re just as important as anybody else.” – Stephanie Lahart
191. “Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life, but define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein
192. “Self-love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. But you must come first.” – Beau Taplin
193. “The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.” – Rita Mae Brown
194. “Love yourself enough to have a meaningful life.” – Millen Livis
195. “Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.” – Veronica A. Shoffstall
196. “Others can’t always define your true identity. They see what they ‘want’ to see but beyond your mess, God sees the beauty He created and still thinks it’s good!” – Chinonye J. Chidolue
197. “You’ve got to love yourself first. You’ve got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.” – Jennifer Lopez
Best Love Yourself, Self-Esteem And Self-Worth Quotes
198. “Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?” – Brigham Young
199. “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde
200. “People that don’t know what they are worth will always see their capture’s wings, but never their tail.” – Shannon L. Alder
201. “The greatest love that you could ever experience on earth is the one that only comes from you to you.” – Edmond Mbiaka
202. “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” – Michael J. Fox
203. “Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.” – Les Brown
204. “If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.” – T. Harv Eker
205. “People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.” – Dan Pearce
206. “Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the face.” – Helen Keller
207. “It’s when you start to love yourself more than those around you that your ego begins to take shape & form.” – Anthony T.Hincks
208. “I’ve finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?” – Golden Hawn
209. “If you ever want to love someone, love yourself unconditionally first.” – Debasish Mridha
210. “I think everybody’s weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.” – Johnny Depp
211. “The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself.” – Melanie Koulouris
212. “Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.” – Deborah Day
213. “If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.” – Vironika Tugaleva
214. “It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self-love deficit.” – Eartha Kitt
215. “You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” – Diane Von Furstenberg
216. “Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.” – Maxwell Maltz
217. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
218. “You can never meet your potential until you truly learn to love yourself.” – Teresa Collins
219. “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right here.” – Venus Williams
220. “The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours – it is an amazing journey – and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.” – Bob Moawad
221. “Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
222. “When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.” – Jean Shinoda Bolen
223. “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
224. “We can’t be so desperate for love that we forget where we can always find it; within.” – Alexandra Ell
225. “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” – Malcolm S. Forbes
226. “You say you need to love others, but do you love yourself” – Bangambiki Habyarimana
227. “The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.” – William James
228. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
229. “Once you embrace your value, talents and strengths, it neutralizes when others think less of you.” – Rob Liano
230. “One way to feel good about yourself is to love yourself, to take care of yourself.” – Goldie Hawn
231. “Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
232. “People who want the most approval get the least and the people who need approval the least get the most.” – Wayne Dyer
233. “Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self-worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself – no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are – completely; the good and the bad – and make changes as YOU see fit – not because you think someone else wants you to be different.” – Stacey Charter
234. “Love yourself and dream bigger.” – Teresa Collins
235. “The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.” – C. JoyBell C.”
236. “Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.” – William James
237. “Self love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. But you must come first.” – Beau Taplin
238. “You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise L. Hay
239. “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
240. “It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.” – Sally Field
241. “You don’t have to stop fighting for others, you just have to remember to fight for yourself too.” – Liz Newman
242. “Did your mom ever tell you, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? She was right–and talking nicely also applies when you’re talking to yourself, even inside your head.” – Victoria Moran
243. “If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.” – Kristin Chenoweth
244. “The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.” – Mark Twain
245. “My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.” – Shakti Gawain
246. “Our entire life … consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.” – Jean Anouih
247. “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” – Brené Brown
248. “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” – Roy T. Bennett
249. “Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
250. “Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.” – Vironika Tugaleva
