Top 100 Love Self Quotes
#1. I don't say I'm not magnetic to try and sound self-deprecating. I'm just not. Though I actually love people. I would like to meet more people. I know no one.
Kristen Stewart
#2. If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The integrity of self is gone.
Ann Oakley
#3. You want to be loved? Love yourself first and passionately. Forgive yourself readily. Care for every part of you. Only when you love yourself do you have love to give to others.
Toni Sorenson
#4. Friendship gives us the strength to turn from lambs into lions.
Stephen Richards
#6. I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours.
Esther Dalseno
#7. 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
#8. If we truly loved ourselves, we'd never harm another. That is a truly revolutionary, celebratory mode of self-care.
Sharon Salzberg
#9. Find yourself first ... like yourself first ... love yourself FIRST ... & friendship & love will naturally find YOU.
Mandy Hale
#10. When we truly discover how to love our neighbor as our self, Capitalism will not be possible and Marxism will not be necessary.
Shane Claiborne
#11. Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love
Galway Kinnell
#12. I wish that you knew you could never make it without love for your goddamned self, and that you'll never ever find it in anybody else.
Angel Haze
#13. His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had when I saw it first, because I saw everything then. The whole thing in him that I was going to love, and never catch or explain.
Alice Munro
#15. The idea of love seemed an invasion," she wrote. "I had thoughts to think, a craft to learn, a self to discover. Solitude was a gift. A world was waiting to welcome me if I was willing to enter it alone.
Kate Bolick
#17. Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.
Aaron Cohen
#19. Most inherent beauties are hidden, as are precious stones in the rocks
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
#20. But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am or will be. I'd love to be able to touch a bell and summon the real me, because if I really need myself, I mustn't disappear.
Pablo Neruda
#21. In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer ... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either.
John Leo
#22. You will never attain and maintain more than you think you deserve.
Rob Liano
#23. Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery.
Bryant McGill
#24. I love it with all of its villains and pretty liars and self-righteous pompers
N.D. Wilson
#25. The point is that if the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it.
Ernest Becker
#26. And if redemption was self-serving, coming as it did ribbon-tied to what he wanted most in life? For once, Akiva's shame wouldn't rise to the bait. He wanted what he'd always wanted, and he'd better just say it, his own worries and fears be damned.
Laini Taylor
#27. [ ... ] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.
Nick Hornby
#28. Be what you are. Do what you love. Speak what you feel. Don't hide
your humanity. Celebrate it. Embrace it.
That is how you change the world.
Vironika Tugaleva
#29. Evil is boring. Cynicism is pointless. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Hopelessness is self-indulgent. On the other hand: Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Chronic ecstasy is a learnable skill.
Rob Brezsny
#30. My heartfelt wish for you: as you get older, your self will diminish and you will grow in love.
George Saunders
#31. When you were the son of evil, there was little you couldn't do, own, or kill, and yet her mortal self was an elusive trophy he could touch, but not put on his shelf.
This made her rare. This made her precious.
This made him ... love her.
J.R. Ward
#32. The ability to reflect is associated with critical thinking and reasoning ability. And the capacity to be alone is one of the highest levels of development. It's important to know how to self-soothe and be confident of other people's love even when they're not there in front of you.
Laurie Helgoe
#33. Accept me for who iam or leave me the way iam, for a true image of God needs no Photoshop and the core of who i really am has no settings
Morgan Chabane
#34. We are all in Love in the same way that we are all in air. Don't forget to breathe.
David A. Beardsley
#35. Lack of self-worth is the fundamental source of all emotional pain. A feeling of insecurity, unworthiness and lack of valueis the core experience of powerlessness.
Gary Zukav
#36. Normally, when someone we love is turning away from a struggle, we self-protect by also turning away. That's definitely my first response. I think change is more likely to happen if both partners have common language and a shared lens to see problems.
Brene Brown
#37. I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that.
Bell Hooks
#38. I remember his eyes. They are just like mine. Every time I look in the mirror I see him. I try not to look at my self too much.
Ida Lokas
#39. Work is not a curse of God but one of the benefits of living on this earth. Finding the work you love is not a self-serving goal; it is a required component of fulfilling your true calling.
Dan Miller
#40. I am anchored on a resolve you cannot shake. My heart, my conscience shall dispose of my hand
they only. Know this at last.
Charlotte Bronte
#41. Telling the story, acknowledging what has happened and how you feel, is often a necessary part of forgiveness.
Sharon Salzberg
#43. To love is to be balanced, to extend one's self beyond the sense of self.
Frederick Lenz
#44. To drive free, to love free, to court destruction with taunts. One brief house of madness and joy!
Walt Whitman
#46. Do what you love but do what it takes to do what you love.
Todd Stocker
#47. Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.
Byron Katie
#48. And as long as a self is driven by an id to a Thou, it is not a matter of love, either. In love the self is not driven by the id, but rather
Viktor E. Frankl
#51. And self-sacrifice is what the Bible means by 'love.' While sin is possessive, love is expansive. Sin's characteristic is the desire to get; love's characteristic is the desire to give.
John R.W. Stott
#52. It's a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place. It is the ground of your absolute value and everything that is truly worthwhile.
Ilchi Lee
#53. Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.
Emily Saliers
#54. 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.
#55. True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.
Joshua Harris
#56. How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.
Don Henley
#57. Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
Marianne Williamson
#58. A look into the Human Mind..of how we perceive..How can we see beauty in and around us..Not the correction of evil or pursuit of the virtuous..BUT..pleasure that resides in the Sense of Self !! A Self living in a state of 'nothingness' and beauty as it lies there..from that place! Simple and Deft
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#59. When you switch your focus from the "we" to the "me", the goal from "team" to "self", you upset the balance of the whole. Consequentially, that redistribution of effort impedes success.
Carlos Wallace
#60. If it is love that makes the world go round, it is self-induction that makes electromagnetic waves go round the world.
Oliver Heaviside
#61. It is very possible to acknowledge another person's concerns without entering into their vibration.
Alaric Hutchinson
#62. Healing is anything that restores your inner sense that all is well, and that returns you to a healthy state of empowerment.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#63. it took
losing him
to finally
find
myself.
It took
losing him
a second time
to be sure
of myself.
that
was my
first act
of
self-love.
Amanda Lovelace
#64. I will eliminate hatred, envy, jealousy, selfishness, and cynicism, by developing love for all humanity, because I know that a negative attitude toward others can never bring me success. I will cause others to believe in me, because I will believe in them, and in myself.
Napoleon Hill
#65. Love between a man and a woman is founded on the mating instinct and is not free from desire and self-seeking. But to have a friend and to be true under any and all trials is the mark of a man!
Charles Eastman
#66. To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.
Joan Didion
#68. Once your heart overflows with love, another heart will follow. And so it goes.
Yeshua: One Hundred Meaningful Messages for Messengers
Janet G. Nestor
#69. Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.
Melody Beattie
#70. We cannot dim another person's light without first extinguishing our own.
Alaric Hutchinson
#71. Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both
Leo Buscaglia
#72. How to be happy starts with self love, being proud of who you are and making happiness a daily choice.
Robert Moment
#73. All we have to do is to receive what we are given ... We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.
Vernon Howard
#74. If you don't love yourself, it makes you incapable of knowing how to love another person.
Ellen J. Barrier
#75. Self-love is almost always the ruling principle of our friendships. It makes us avoid all our obligations in unprofitable situations, and even causes us to forget our hostility towards our enemies when they become powerful enough to help us achieve fame or fortune.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#76. We achieve self knowledge through the Kundalini. Now the journey starts towards God knowledge. Without self knowledge one cannot know about God as actualised knowledge.
Nirmala Srivastava
#77. People hide the truth to protect those they love!
Craig Mercier
#78. take out your love from lies... or you will get a lot to loose.
Toge Aprilianto
#79. To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.
Thomas Merton
#80. Jealousy comes from self-love rather than from true love.
Iris Murdoch
#81. My mediocrity is no secret;
My battles with it are
Karan Patade
#82. Christ tears away the wall of partition, the self-love, the dividing prejudice of nationality, and teaches a love for all the human family.
Ellen G. White
#83. Love has little to do with romance and everything to do with honor.
Jesikah Sundin
#84. The feeling itself is the language your Higher Self listens to.
Raphael Zernoff
#85. No matter how rich, powerful or handsome he is, he is still just a man.
Rebecca Warner
#87. When you express "purity" which is the truth about yourself, you feel a love for yourself that is expressed by self-respect, self-esteem, and self-confidence!
Tae Yun Kim
#88. no one needs love from you
more than you need love from you.
love yourself first,
and you will always be in love.
AVA.
#89. Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.
Pandora Poikilos
#90. Trade your bitterness with gratefulness. You will find joy of life.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#91. Surrender your self-interest. Love others as much as you love yourself. Then you can be entrusted with all things under heaven.
Laozi
#92. I remain convinced that a therapist's judicious self-disclosure facilitates the course of therapy. Love's
Irvin D. Yalom
#94. The source of love isn't in your self. It isn't in your experience. It's in you.
John De Ruiter
#95. Jesus regularly visualized the success of his efforts ... 'I always do what pleases God.' ... Was this conceit? Or was it enlightened creativity and self-knowledge? ... Jesus was full of self-knowledge and self-love. His 'I am' statements were what he became.
Laurie Beth Jones
#97. I will never cut it as a Quaker - I cannot find it in me to renounce all violence, not with two daughters under my protection - but I do love their silent hour, which in my case invariably evolved into a self-scouring meditation on the idea that the busy life is not the full life.
Michael Perry
#98. You must learn to love, respect and believe in yourself. To accomplish this, begin by restructuring your current self-programming.
Marshall Sylver
#99. Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#100. Love isn't self-centered, even at the supreme scale.
John K. Brown
