Top 100 Quotes About Self Love
#1. Self-love is an incredible equalizer. When self love is running the show, the over giver learns to honor their own yes's and no's. In the same way the over taker learns to honor another person's yes's and no's.
Christina Marie
#2. Makeup is no different than clothes and accessories - it's embellishments for your face. And it also gives you creative freedom. You get to have that moment in front the mirror every morning and give yourself self-love. You're making yourself up beautiful, which is essentially self-love.
Michelle Phan
#3. Self-love is not only necessary and good, it is a prerequisite for loving others.
Rollo May
#4. Once you forgive yourself, the self-rejection in your mind is over. Self-acceptance begins, and the self-love will grow so strong that you will finally accept yourself just the way you are. That's the beginning of the free human. Forgiveness is the key.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#5. All hatred of others is a reflection of self-hatred. All love of others is a reflection of self-love.
Alan Cohen
#6. Love is self deception. I am a living creature. Hate is only self love. I am a double feature.
Henry Rollins
#7. A person who is humble would never be abusive or selfish; so don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.
Bryant McGill
#8. Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.
Madame De Stael
#9. To be forward to praise others implies either great eminence, that can afford to, part with applause; or great quickness of discernment, with confidence in our own judgments; or great sincerity and love of truth, getting the better of our self-love.
William Hazlitt
#10. When you choose self-love, you are reclaiming your awareness of your own power, which raises your vibrational energy and contributes to your healing.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#11. Self love is number one. As you radiate it out to others; it will radiate back to you.
Renae A. Sauter
#12. When we practice viewing others as perfect right now, we increase our capacity to view ourselves with more compassion, kindness, and self-love.
Anella Wetter
#13. Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.
Charles Caleb Colton
#14. I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black; it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
June Jordan
#15. Bliss is inherent in the Self as fragrance is inherent in a flower. As the flower of the Self-love blossoms, bliss comes spontaneously as the fragrance.
Banani Ray
#16. My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.
Muhammad Ali
#17. Sometimes it's a struggle to get over self-love first. Sometimes in this struggle for love, we give up, or lose everything, and we still don't achieve love. Some people don't even recognize real love when it comes without being called or sought.
J. California Cooper
#18. The foundation of joyful independence is being content with yourself; self-love.
Bryant McGill
#19. The more self-love we have, the less we will experience self-abuse. Self-abuse comes from self-rejection, and self-rejection comes from having an image of what it means to be perfect and never measuring up to that ideal.
Miguel Ruiz
#20. It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.
Christian Scriver
#21. Self-love is having appreciation for oneself, respecting oneself, and caring for oneself, and the actions that help us mature also help it grow.
Tisha Marie Payton, MHR
#22. The notion of loving oneself has gotten an undeservedly bad rap, which goes something like this: self-love is narcissistic, selfish, self-indulgent, the supreme delusion of a runaway ego looking out for "number one." In fact, just the opposite is true.
Sharon Salzberg
#23. All of us wish we'd had perfect childhoods, with a mother and father who modeled ideal parental attitudes and taught us to internalize the tenets of self-love. Many of us, however, did not.
Marianne Williamson
#24. Every time you make a commitment to your own self-care, self-love and self-respect and then follow through, you build trust in yourself.
Miranda J. Barrett
#25. 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
#26. How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it?
Benjamin Franklin
#27. You can measure the impeccability of your word by your level of self-love. How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word. When you are impeccable with your word, you feel good; you feel happy and at peace.
Miguel Ruiz
#28. All of our actions can signify self-love or self-sabotage
Sharon Salzberg
#29. Self-love is often equated with self-esteem but when it makes you blind to your own faults and gives you an inflated ego, it is time to introspect.
Balroop Singh
#30. What men have given the name of friendship to is nothing but an alliance, a reciprocal accommodation of interest, an exchange of good offices; in it is nothing but a system of traffic, in which self-love always proposes to itself some advantage.
Francois Alexandre Frederic, Duc De La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
#31. Beauty, by way of fashion, has to do with confidence, with flattering silhouettes, with patterns, with proper fit for body type, and with an abundance of self-love!
Mary Lambert
#32. As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them.
George Eliot
#33. You must be prepared to sacrifice your self-love to the cause, you must be ready to treat the cause as if it is life itself.
Auliq Ice
#34. Find your self love. Find that precious thing inside you that
makes you want to live. And when you've found it, hold on to it with one
hand, and use the other to claw your way back home.
-Ripple
Valjeanne Jeffers
#35. Insecurity is lack of self love. When your fountain of self love is alive, you will be one with people.
Vishwas Chavan
#36. I don't think anyone's ever accused me of too much self-love.
Meghan Daum
#38. In a society that says, "Put yourself last," self-love and self-acceptance are almost revolutionary. If
Brene Brown
#39. The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show us, as we imagine, in the best light.
Lorenzo Scupoli
#40. There is a self-love solution for every challenge.
Abiola Abrams
#41. Third, this unitary definition of love includes self-love with love for the other. Since I am human and you are human, to love humans means to love myself as well as you.
M. Scott Peck
#42. When you wish to obtain some concession from a man's self-love, you must avoid even the appearance of wishing to wound it." "I
Alexandre Dumas
#43. The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
George Henry Lewes
#44. Your life changes, when you focus on self-love, self-esteem, and self-confidence. Only your opinions of self love matter. Respect yourself.
Auliq Ice
#45. I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.
Moby
#46. [J]uvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty.' But duty is an adult virtue
indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge and duty and embraces it more than the self-love he was born with.
Robert A. Heinlein
#47. How often are the beauties of nature unheeded by man, who, musing on past ills, brooding over the possible calamities of the future, building castles in the air, or wrapped up in his own self-love and self-importance, forgets to look abroad, or looks with a vacant stare.
Almira Hart Lincoln Phelps
#48. Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.
Joanna Baillie
#49. Man hates something in himself. He has been able to defeat every natural obstacle but himself he cannot win over unless he kills every individual. And this self-hate which goes so closely in hand with self-love is what I wrote about. - in a letter to George Albee
John Steinbeck
#50. Would you hurt a man keenest, strike at his self-love; would you hurt a woman worst, aim at her affections.
Lew Wallace
#51. We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.
Paul Valery
#52. He was well versed in the art of self-love.
Tina Ordone
#53. To forgive others, in order to forgive ourselves, because in their roles as our mirrors, they have been nothing other than a tool to our lack of self-love, a lack of self-recognition, and a lack of self-respect.
Human Angels
#54. Self-love is a key, to having someone else love you.
Auliq Ice
#55. Self-love is the source of that ignorant conceit of knowledge which is always doing and never succeeding.
Plato
#56. It's no accident that most of the great black spokespersons and leaders understood the centrality of self-affirmation, self-respect and self-love.
Cornel West
#57. Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#58. Contrary to the common misconception that loving yourself equates to being self-absorbed and lacking empathy or consideration for others, the true meaning of self-love is about caring, respecting and knowing yourself, taking responsibility for your life, and ultimately, your happiness.
Miya Yamanouchi
#59. The great problem of legislation is, so to organize the civil government of a community ... that in the operation of human institutions upon social action, self-love and social may be made the same.
John Quincy Adams
#60. By choosing healthy over skinny you are choosing self-love over self-judgment. You are beautiful!
Steve Maraboli
#61. Pride in a man is confused with dignity; in a woman, with self-love.
Jose Bergamin
#62. Whether we learn how to love ourselves and others will depend on the presence of a loving environment. Self-love cannot flourish in isolation.
Bell Hooks
#63. Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance
Romany Malco
#65. Eloquence is an art of saying things in such a way (1) that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure; (2) that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.
Blaise Pascal
#66. The lawgiver ought to be gentle, lenient and humane. The lawgiver ought to be a skilled architect who raises his building on the foundation of self-love, and the interest of all ought to be the product of the interests of each.
Cesare Beccaria
#67. Our self-love and pride manifest themselves especially in impatience
John Of Kronstadt
#68. Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.
Honore De Balzac
#69. Self-love is even deceived by self-love, because by looking out for our own interests and disregarding those of other people, we lose the advantage that comes with the exchange of favors.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#70. It's hard to decide matters of the heart, especially when Self-love is rooted in our decisions. You'll need to balance your needs with the people you love in order to avoid hurting others.
Auliq Ice
#71. Self-love makes us deceive ourselves in almost all matters, to censure others, and to blame them for the same faults that we do not correct in ourselves; we do this either because we are unaware of the evil that exists within us, or because we always see our own evil disguised as a good.
Madeleine De Souvre, Marquise De ...
#72. You can't hate yourself happy, You can't criticize yourself thin, You can't shame yourself wealthy. Real change begins with self-love and self care.
Jessica Ortner
#73. We ought not to extract pernicious honey from poison blossoms of misrepresentation and mendacious half-truth, to pamper the course appetite of bigotry and self-love.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#74. It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. We address ourselves not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages
Adam Smith
#76. Self-love is when you are genuinely happy not with the image you see in the mirror, but the person you see.
Kaiylah Muhammad
#77. Because there is no man who can be true and just judge of himself, so much will self-love deceive him.
Dante Alighieri
#78. 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
#79. Real spirituality is about getting the bullshit out of your life and getting real. Real humility knows how to slam a door closed and say no more. You can't be humble without self-love.
Bryant McGill
#80. When we work with love we renew the spirit; that renewal is an act of self-love, it nurtures our growth.
Bell Hooks
#81. An uplifting, fat-tastic voyage to self-love, Read My Hips made me realize that I no longer need to be weighed down by constantly judging my body. I devoured this book-it's deliciously inspiring!
Hillary Carlip
#82. Both sadness and anger are the two sides of same coin. Sadness is supressed anger, while anger is expressed sadness. Both sadness and anger are state of unhappiness, which are often because lack of self-love.
Vishwas Chavan
#83. Some of the pain released, and love filled the cleared space, uniting, magnetizing more self-love to it.
Colleen Chen
#84. The self-life manifests itself in self-indulgences, such as self-love, self-will, self-seeking, self-pride ... It takes self-denial to turn off the television and spend [time] in prayer ... and read the Scriptures ... the only object in life is that Christ may be honored.
Billy Graham
#85. A vice utterly at variance with the happiness of him who harbors it, and, as such, condemned by self-love.
James Mackintosh
#86. Living the life I wanted was my ultimate responsibility. Learning to forgive was my ultimate act of self-love.
Andrea T. Goeglein
#87. Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.
Mason Cooley
#88. We are forever looking outside ourselves, seeking approval and striving to impress others. But living to please others is a poor substitute for self-love, for no matter how family and friends may adore us, they can never satisfy our visceral need to love and honor ourselves.
Susan L. Taylor
#89. A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far, it soon becomes poisonous.
Geoff Mulgan
#91. Self-love is better than any gilding to make that seem gorgeous wherein ourselves be parties.
Philip Sidney
#92. No one cares for reality, everyone stakes his essence on illusion. Slaves and dupes of their self-love, men live not in order to live but to make other believe they have lived!
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#93. An Oxford degree or owning a successful business or a perfect looking body does NOT guarantee inner-happiness, peace of mind, self-love, and a loving relationship.
Maddy Malhotra
#94. We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#95. Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.
Thomas Traherne
#96. I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?
Shailene Woodley
#97. There is a thin line between self-love and self-hate. When you are at the self-hate side, make sure to cross the line and stay away from it forever.
Merriam Rammila
#98. 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
#99. A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#100. Pride is over-estimation of oneself by reason of self-love.
Baruch Spinoza
