Love Herself Quotes

#1. If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.

Louise L. Hay

#2. I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.

Julianne Hough

#3. How do you tell someone she has to learn to love herself and her own body before she can be loved or love?

Azar Nafisi

#4. I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.

Queen Latifah

#5. When a woman needs courage, for example, life might throw a few things at her to draw it out. When a woman needs to love herself, she might be lonely while life leaves her without external hearts to hide in.

Menna Van Praag

#6. I am the woman who lost herself but now is found, the lesbian, outside the law of the church and man, the one who has to love herself or die. If you are not as strong as I am, what will be make together? I am all muscle and wounded desire, and I need to know how strong we both can be.

Dorothy Allison

#7. Alice would choose to love herself, different and extraordinary, every day of the week.

Tahereh Mafi

#8. Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.

Shulamith Firestone

#9. She must first love herself and the, and only then, could she give her heart to another.

Linda Urbach

#10. She would never be caught unprepared again, she swore to herself. She would never trust. Never love. Never put faith in other human beings again. She would learn all she could of the shape and substance of the world, and she would find a way to survive in it.

David Anthony Durham

#11. She did not delude herself into expecting Francis to love her. He had never been taught how to love, but had an arresting way of looking pleased at Adah's achievements.

Buchi Emecheta

#12. Was she in love? Rosalind had asked herself that many times in the last few weeks. Anna's mother said you're in love when you feel like you've been hit by a truck. Rosalind felt bad enough for a motorcycle, maybe, but not a truck.

Jeanne Birdsall

#13. The publicity image steals her love of herself as she is, and offers it back to her for the price of the product.

John Berger

#14. I love the way she projects two facets: a visible persona and a subterranean one. She keeps her thoughts to herself; she seems to suggest that her secret, inner life is at least as significant as the appearance she gives.

Francois Truffaut

#15. Gretta sits herself down at the table. Robert has arranged everything she needs: a plate, a knife, a bowl with a spoon, a pat of butter, a jar of jam. It is in such small acts of kindness that people know they are loved.

Maggie O'Farrell

#16. She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence ... they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good ...

Eva Ibbotson

#17. And at night, leaning against the frame of her window, Kate said the word aloud to herself for the pure pleasure of saying it, listening to the lovely, liquid opening of the vowel, and the v that close and contained it.

Zibby Oneal

#18. An obstreperous urge seized him. he desperately wanted to hold on to her, to support his slipping heart, and when it slipped away, he realized she had gone away, incarcerating herself in his thought with her smile and unblemished innocence.

Faraaz Kazi

#19. Manon told herself it was for an alliance. Told herself it was for show.
But all she could see was the unconditional love in that dying wyvern's eyes as she unbuckled her harness, stood from the saddle, and leapt off Abraxos.

Sarah J. Maas

#20. Through True Love, she merges with Him. She who does not know her Husband Lord, the Architect of karma, is deluded by falsehood she herself is false.

Guru Nanak

#21. It's as if I died too,' she whispered to herself, 'as if I was born dead.'
Ironically, it was true. Emotionally she knew what her mind did not, beyond logic, beyond reason, as if somehow deep inside she felt what Sarah knew.

Denny Taylor

#22. The first morning after Westley's departure, Buttercup thought she was entitled to do nothing more than sit around moping and feeling sorry for herself. After all, the love of her life had fled, life had no meaning, how could you face the future, et cetera, et cetera.

William Goldman

#23. I'd prefer to rise in love , she thinks - lifting up to the clouds , not plunging to the earth. She pictures herself , weightless and adored , delirious in ecstasy.

Jessie Burton

#24. To feel, to love, to suffer, to devote herself, will always be the text of the life of woman.

Honore De Balzac

#25. And now she began muttering to herself. "God , who created you, must have known what He did. Enough is enough.

Chinelo Okparanta

#26. It wasn't that she thought highly of herself. It was that she thought highly of the promise of more.

Sarah MacLean

#27. In the final analysis, with Rene she had been an apprentice to love, she had loved him only to learn how to give herself, enslaved and surfeited, to Sir Stephen.

Pauline Reage

#28. She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all

Rick Yancey

#29. Julie smiled a tight little smile and shook her head at her own foolhardiness.
But I did it because I love him, she told herself. I love him still. God help me. So this is how it feels to have your break ...

Jennifer Wilde

#30. It was in her nature to love and to nurture; she would not leave those feelings within herself to fester and sour, but instead she chose someone who would receive her gifts gladly. She did not hold herself to be so special that only one special person could she find satisfactory.

Sena Jeter Naslund

#31. Hello, Scarlet," said Maha, composing herself enough to smile. "Ze'ev failed to mention he was in love with you." Scarlet could feel her cheeks turning as red as her hair. Thorne

Marissa Meyer

#32. I think, don't you, that a girl with any delicacy of feeling couldn't bring herself to marry a man indirectly responsible for her father's death. No matter how much she was in love with him.

Wallace Stegner

#33. As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies

Arthur Schopenhauer

#34. It does not matter how strong you are. You are to be my wife, and I will not have the woman I love put herself at risk. Ever.

S.T. Bende

#35. He got Alice, the way we did, or maybe even more so than us. He made her more confident, funnier, smarter. He brought out all the things that were there already and let her be fully herself, so she seemed to shine with this inner light.

Liane Moriarty

#36. 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

#37. We are faithful as long as we love, but you
demand faithfulness of a woman without love, and the giving of
herself without enjoyment. Who is cruel there
woman or man?

Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

#38. For the first time in her life she found herself failing at something.

Jane Green

#39. How can she let herself love him, when she's signed a contract to let him go?

Ros Clarke

#40. Twilight, I'm sorry, is about a very unhealthy, toxic relationship. She falls in love with this guy and the second he leaves her, her life is over and she's going to kill herself! What message are we sending to young people? That is not going to help this world evolve,

Shailene Woodley

#41. But Paulie gives all of herself away, and so to create a love like that and a person who would give themselves away was what I thought was going to be difficult. I was little scared of such a challenge.

Piper Perabo

#42. Acting was all about making yourself feel things-love,rage,euphoria,agony. She had to unlearn those things now. She had to teach herself not to feel. Refusing to feel hurt also meant she numbed herself to joy, but the sacrifice was worth it.

Susan Wiggs

#43. All that time tying herself up in knots because she simply couldn't think of
a good reason not to be with him

Chris Manby

#44. So you love her still?" She found herself asking.
"Who?"
"The vampire. Shamiya."
His hand squeezed her calf in gentle reproof."A silly question, cher. You know love cannot survive where there is no light.

Nalini Singh

#45. She loved everything around, turquoise blue sky and calm sea, and the holy mountain, and fragrant woods on it, and monasteries and hermitages, and herbs, and flowers, and monks and pilgrims, and children. And him? She asked herself and almost said "yes" inwardly...

Osyp Nazaruk

#46. Loyalty to others speaks volumes about loyalty to self. To love others, one must truly love him/herself first.

Peprah Boasiako

#47. This made my father laugh. 'Mary made a cake, did she? Well, well. Better that than she should make a cake for herself, I suppose.'
Peter then burst out: 'Why must you always be making a game of Mary? 'Tis not fair; 'tis not sporting.

Jennifer Paynter

#48. I just enjoy watching you eat. It's cute." "Cute? What do you mean 'cute'?" "You make these little moans when you take a bite you love. You appreciate your meals. It's not often a woman can let herself enjoy her food.

Caterina Passarelli

#49. Doing something for Victoria's Secret would be great - I love Doutzen Kroes. She's so special to look at but seems like a very normal person. She's true to herself - that's important to me.

Ymre Stiekema

#50. I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.

Emma Goldman

#51. Sex and love went together like bad boys and leather, and with Ryder, she couldn't do one without the other. She could lie to herself and say she just wanted one last night of wild sex, but her heart would surely follow her body.

Cindy Skaggs

#52. She'd poured so much of herself into keeping it buried, sometimes it felt like any energy she might have had for joy or love or light went there instead. You only had so much to give.

Laini Taylor

#53. No, Lucy. Your mother doesn't really love men. They are a symptom of her obsessive quest of finding somebody who will make her whole. She doesn't understand that she has to make herself whole.

Patricia Cornwell

#54. She let out a long, slow breath and admitted to herself that she had fallen completely, irreversibly in love with him.

Ruth Cardello

#55. Irena Sendler never thought of herself as a hero. She only did what she felt she must, and wished she could have done more.

Marcia K. Vaughan

#56. Love runs away from those chasing her, and those who run away, she throws herself on his neck.

William Shakespeare

#57. Every child should have love, every person should have it. She herself would rather have had her mother's love - the love she still continued to believe in, the love that had followed her through the jungle in the form of a bird so she would not be too frightened or lonely.

Margaret Atwood

#58. She thought: I love him. Like telling herself something and hoping she believed it.

Jack Skillingstead

#59. Each person walks a journey unique to himself or herself. Live your own journey and run your own race.

Winsome Campbell-Green

#60. Her first love, her first lover, the only person with whom she had never felt the need to explain herself.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#61. The beauty he saw in her was the beauty she forgot to see in herself and what a beautiful reminder, that love is what will see us all through.

Nikki Rowe

#62. She tore herself away, and went out. And I went away. I cannot describe the emotion with which I went away. I should not wish it ever to come again; but I should think myself unfortunate had I never experienced such an emotion.

Ivan Turgenev

#63. Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.

Theodore Parker

#64. Love transforms and love cures;but,sometimes,love builds deadly traps and can end up destroying a person who had resolved to give him or herself completely.What is this complex feeling which,deep down,is the only reason we continue to live,struggle and improve?

Paulo Coelho

#65. Forsaking the shield of insensibility she had tightly woven over herself during her years as a gelder, she unbarred her heart. She invited him in.

Chris Lange

#66. What knowing the Mother means above all is daring to put love into action. The Mother herself is love-in-action, love acting everywhere and in everything to make creation possible.

Andrew Harvey

#67. What I don't like about Guinevere is the fact that she can't control her passions and urges. She gets herself into quite a love triangle, and quite a web. Personally, I find that very difficult to relate to. But, it wouldn't be interesting, if she did everything right.

Tamsin Egerton

#68. Some one has killed herself for love of you. I wish that I had ever had such an experience.

Oscar Wilde

#69. She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

Emile Zola

#70. This is the real Madame. I can see why she hides herself in accents and gems and exotic perfumes. I can see why she's grown to hate anything to do with love. She isn't evil or corrupt the way that Vaughn is. She's broken. Only broken.

Lauren DeStefano

#71. She had saved herself for this, stored her love within her so that this book, which could not possibly have been written for any purpose but to crawl inside her and dwell there like a holy thing, so that this book would not be ashamed of her profligacy.

Catherynne M Valente

#72. And before she could help herself, her heart was breaking for him. Like it didn't have anything better to break over.

Rainbow Rowell

#73. She does not know how to measure her life. When Sam was alive, she measured it through his love. She had always measured herself through the look in his eyes. She is afraid of admitting that to herself.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#74. Fate was cruel to play this trick on her, although if she were honest she knew she only had herself to blame. She had taken the chance and now she had to pay the price.

Emily Arden

#75. She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that sometimes she is frightened of herself.

Yiyun Li

#76. A woman who truly loves herself better loves others.

Toni Sorenson

#77. FBI Girl is a gorgeous, sumptuous book. Conlon-McIvor takes a subject (herself and her family) that might have sunk in other hands, beats egg white under her words and the whole thing rises like a dream. It's a love story for her people and for a time and place. Read it.

Alexandra Fuller

#78. She had come to him the fool, thinking herself the experienced one. After all, she had nothing to give that another hadn't had, nothing so far as she knew. But he'd taken what hadn't been there; what was his; what was promised.

Shewanda Pugh

#79. She was constitutionally unable to endure any man being in love with any woman not herself ...

Margaret Mitchell

#80. Amina would not know herself until years later, when she understood what it was to long for someone, to ache for their smell and taste on you, to imagine the weight of their hips pinning yours so precisely that you crane up to meet your own invisible desire

Mira Jacob

#81. Am I jealous? he thought, astonished. Jealous of the chance object to which she has attached herself? Jealous of something that does not concern me? One can be jealous of a love that has turned away, but not of that to which it has turned.

Erich Maria Remarque

#82. No woman kills herself for love, and rarely for shame. It is the cruelty of hope that does a woman in; for no matter how many men a woman has given herself to, she never holds her life cheap until she foolishly believed it to be valued.

Sheri Holman

#83. And that is why we must answer her hatred with love. I can't say whether it will change her in her heart - it probably won't. But if it makes her feel even just a little bit better about herself, she will be less envious.

Alexander McCall Smith

#84. Her throat tightened as she reminded herself that she might have been making love, but he had been having sex. She

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#85. She said, 'You know that I love you.' And, despite herself, Coraline nodded. It was true: the other mother loved her. But she loved Coraline as a miser loves money, or a dragon loves its gold.

Neil Gaiman

#86. If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.

Melina Marchetta

#87. It's only physical, she reminded herself. Just lust. Some kind of twisted, mutual escape valve. And those physical things, with no love or respect or loyalty to bind and preserve them, had a short shelf life. They were limited-time offers. Three months, tops.

Jess Riley

#88. I can't give you the moon," the tinker said. "She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself.

Patrick Rothfuss

#89. It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping him or herself. Serve and you shall be served. If you love and serve people, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape the remuneration.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#90. [Cat] found a complete set of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, with little tabs of paper sticking out. The were scrawled over with the witch's comments to herself, "Fun!" "Try this, but with exploding feathers!" and "Gotta love him
deeply sick.

Gregory Maguire

#91. Laurie herself was more focused on the years when her kids were little, when she felt so necessary and purposeful, a battery all charged up with love. Every day she used it up and every night it got miraculously replenished. Nothing had ever been as good as that.

Tom Perrotta

#92. She always,
She always wanted to express herself but no one cared,
So she stopped,
She was crushed,
Stiff & lifeless,
Like everything else.

Truth Devour

#93. There was something wrong with her. She did not know what it was but there was something wrong with her. A hunger, a restlessness. An incomplete knowledge of herself. The sense of something farther away, beyond her reach.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#94. When she remembers to look at herself in a spiritual light, she sees the deep capacity for love this pain has brought her. The realization fills her with wonder. Now she can rise in the morning and greet the new day with eagerness and grace.

Harold Kemp

#95. Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#96. She needed this. For the comfort, for the love, for all the glorious things she did not deserve and yet could not stop herself from wanting.

Madeline Martin

#97. The Love of Europa: She called herself Europa. She was wild in her wandering, a drop of free water. She believed only in her life and in her dreams. She called herself Europa, and her god was Beauty.

Roman Payne

#98. She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes, he took her for granted, of course he did , but he took her for granted - not like an old coat in the corner of a dark cupboard, as she'd put it to herself , but like the very air that he breathed .

Ahdaf Soueif

#99. A man in love is cautious with the decisions he makes, words he says and actions he takes, so he never purposefully causes her pain. He believes in her when she struggles believing in herself. He is her foundation, where she feels safe to be her true self.

Elizabeth Bourgeret

#100. Why do they lie?" she asked herself aloud. "They say time makes losing someone you loved easier to deal with, but it only makes it worse.

Rebecca McNutt