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Is it hard to hug yourself and say nice things to yourself? Do you constantly tell yourself, “I can’t love myself. I am not that person?”Then these self-love quotes are for you, not just for girls and women. Reading them will let you show yourself some love without feeling guilty or odd. Like this one:
“Self-criticism and self-love don’t live in the same house.”
You can love yourself despite your past. The person you were doesn’t have to be the person you want to be.
- First rule of self-love: Never put yourself last when it comes to meeting your needs vs. other people’s needs.
- Second rule of self-love: Making mistakes and having regrets are a part of being human — they don’t disqualify you from loving yourself.
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50 Inspirational Self-Love Quotes For Girls (And The Rest of Us)
Use these as self-love captions on your Polaroid selfies. Put them around your living and working space. They will remind you to judge yourself less and praise your efforts more.
For me, the greatest self-love message comes from Janis Joplin, the first lady of rock ‘n’ roll:
Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.
Janis Joplin
So, girls, women, and everyone else reading this, you are already precious and worth over many million dollars.
Just add more firepower to your indomitable spirit and fall in love with who you can be.
Read this if you haven’t already learned to love yourself.
Here are the 50 heartwarming quotes to inspire you to love yourself more:
Self-love starts with the belief that you are not your mistakes.
Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. — Lucille Ball
Self-love seems so often unrequited. — Anthony Powell
To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness. — Robert Morely
Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others. — Wilfred Peterson
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. — Oscar Wilde
Know who you are. Know what you want. Know what you deserve. And don’t settle for less. — Tony Gaskins
If you can learn to love yourself and all your flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy. — Kristin Chenoweth
Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept. — Anna Taylor
Self-love = to love yourself as much as you’d love your best friend.
In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experience that shaped you. — Andrea Dykstra
No other love, no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love. — Edmond Mbiaka
If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself. — Barbara De Angelis
Self-love is rising above the perfectionist standards you have set for yourself. It is accepting that you are human and make mistakes just like any other person. So start being real, and stop being perfect. — Sandip Roy
I am who I am. Not who you think I am. Not who you want me to be. I am me. — Brigitte Nicole
There are plenty of places in which you will face rejection; the mirror… should not be one of them. — N.R. Shephard
Self-love is respecting and practicing your right to be happy. It’s also giving yourself a smile and a hand each time you fall down. — THB
Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions. — Pema Chodron
Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. — Louise L. Hay
Loving yourself means you have accepted yourself and your past. It means you chose to change for the better and are now in a happy relationship with yourself.
If there’s one thing I’m willing to bet on, it’s myself. — Beyoncé
You don’t have to be pretty. You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend or spouse or partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. — Erin McKean
You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served. — Nina Simone
To accept ourselves as we are, means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections. — Sandra Bierig
Embrace the glorious mess that you are. — Elizabeth Gilbert (author of the 10-million-copies bestseller Eat, Pray, Love)
I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. — Louisa May Alcott
If you have the ability to love, love yourself first. — Charles Bukowski
I am mine. Before I am EVER anyone else’s. — Nayyirah Waheed
Love yourself instead of abusing yourself. — Karolina Kurkova
When a woman becomes her own best friend, life is easier. — Diane Von Furstenberg
Often we are reluctant to promote self-love, mostly because we confuse it with selfishness. Since we are humans, we ought to have a healthy love for ourselves; it is from this fount that love flows out to others. — Mason Olds
Self-love begins when we observe our actions and words with compassion as if we were our own best friend. — Sara M Bosworth
Loving yourself makes it easier to love others. You can’t truly love another until you know how to love yourself. — Anon
I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do. — Brené Brown
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. — Buddha
Never starve yourself of self-love. – Anon
Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself. Love yourself. — Tara Stiles
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself. — Harvey Fierstein
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
Never dull your shine for somebody else. — Tyra Banks
You can’t pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first. — Norm Kelly
Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults. — Les Brown
Be yourself. No one can say you’re doing it wrong. — Charles M. Schulz
You can search the whole world for someone who deserves your love more than you, but you won’t find that person. — Inspired by Buddha
I don’t like myself, I’m crazy about myself. — May West
You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right here. — Venus Williams (the only tennis player to have won a medal at 4 Olympic Games).
Choose every day to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all worthy of love. — Alison Malee
A girl should be two things: who and what she wants. — Coco Chanel
You carry so much love in your heart. Give some to yourself. — r.z.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind. — Bernard M. Baruch
Life … puts you in touch with people you need to meet — to help you, to hurt you, to leave you, to love you, and to gradually strengthen you into the person you were meant to become. — Robert Tew
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. — Jorge Luis Borges
“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” — Rupi Kaur
I have so much love in my heart to give; I have to remember to save some for myself. — Ericka Leigh
Who will you love if not yourself? … You will not love anyone or anything until those eyes in the mirror soften up and embrace the beauty that is already within. — Vironika Tugaleva
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won’t like you at all. — Rita Mae Brown
More Inspiring Quotes About Self Love
You were born with a right to be happy. Self-love is respecting and practicing that right for your happiness and well-being.
Self-love is calling yourself by name and saying, “Hey lovely lady, I love you for who you are, exactly as you are!”
Loving yourself is like being a great friend to yourself. Always remember, you are that one friend who will never leave you — so why not be your own BFF (best friend forever)?
To love yourself more, you need to set yourself free from any conditions. True self-love is unconditional.
Self-love is healthy and positive; it is not being narcissistic.
Love Yourself Quotes
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
If you’re searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.
You know you’re in self-love when you see your reflection, and it makes you smile. Why don’t you do that more often?
To love yourself fully, you have to forgive yourself first. Once you make peace with your past, you’ll find a more lovable self in the present.
When you compare yourself to others, you strangle and suffocate your ability to love yourself.
You can’t love yourself if you’re always criticizing yourself. Self-criticism and self-love don’t live in the same house.
Those who love themselves know how to set boundaries in their relationships and say No to people who drain them physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Self-love means not settling for less than you deserve. Compassion, kindness, happiness — you deserve a lot more of these for yourself than for others.
People who love themselves always know exactly what they want for themselves. — Anon
Self-love is getting ready and looking good just for yourself, even when you know there’s no one to see you in person.
Self-love is investing time and resources to educate and grow yourself. Give yourself the gift of knowledge.
You don’t need to love everything about yourself to have self-love; loving yourself is first about accepting yourself completely.
Self-Love Is NOT Narcissism
Self-love and narcissism are different. Self-love is accepting and caring for yourself without hurting others or being insensitive to other people’s feelings and pains.
- Narcissism is toxic self-obsession, and it tries to satisfy the narcissist at the cost of others’ peace.
- Self-love makes you happy and satisfied, while also opening the door to giving others your love.
- Narcissists have an overinflated sense of self-importance and a “superiority complex.”
- Narcissists have a strong need and demand for special treatment, admiration, and attention.
- They blame others for their failures, boast about their nonexistent success, and gaslight others.
- Narcissists lack empathy, making them insensitive, selfish, and uncaring of other people’s pains.
- Self-love is breaking up with the narcissists in your life.
- Something disturbing happens when a narcissistic relationship ends.
Self-love is not self-obsession.
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Self-love is also not being obsessed with yourself. To make this clear, here are three quotes:
- “I’m sorry, if you were right, I’d agree with you.” – Robin Williams
- “I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.” – Muhammad Ali
- “I am not a narcissist, but I am the most important person you know.” – Donald Trump
Self-love is not selfish-love. It is not a zero-sum game. You can love yourself while also loving others.
[In a zero-sum transaction, one person’s gain is another person’s loss.]
Why do women feel guilty about loving themselves?
Women should celebrate their failures, praise their efforts, and have pure love for themselves.
When women don’t meet their own expectations, they often blame themselves. This is because, for centuries, men have had more power in society.
When they need self-love and self-celebration, women often replace self-esteem with self-doubt, making it difficult to embrace themselves for who they are.
Women should give themselves a loving hug when things go wrong. Those who love themselves can pursue goals with passion and persistence.
Self-love means forgiving yourself and treating yourself with the love and empathy that you would show to your most loved people.
Being lonely alone is better than being lonely in a relationship.
- Did you ever get obsessive thoughts about someone? It may be “limerence.”
- Find out the differences between love and limerence.
FAQs
What is self-love?
Self-love or “love of self” is appreciating the goodness and humanness in yourself and being gentle in embracing your flaws and fragility. It is accepting yourself fully, treating yourself with kindness and respect, and nurturing your growth and well-being. Psychologists say self-love is a mix of self-esteem, self-acceptance, and self-compassion.
How to increase self-love?
Self-love is not always evident or present at an optimal level. To increase it, you must remind yourself of your best qualities, like how helpful, honest, capable, hardworking, and unique you are in life. Mindfulness meditation can help you love yourself more in the present moment, for what you are today, and stop judging yourself less for your past flaws.
What are the best quotes for self-love?
Here are 7 inspiring self-love quotes:
1. To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness. — Robert Morely
2. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. — Lucille Ball
3. I love the person I’ve become because I fought to become her. — Kaci Diane
4. I am who I am. Not who you think I am. Not who you want me to be. I am me. — Brigitte Nicole
5. You are not your mistakes. They are what you did. Not who you are. — Lisa Lieberman-Wang
6. No other love, no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love. — Edmond Mbiaka
7. I’m constantly amazed by how easily we love ourselves above all others, yet we put more stock in the opinions of others than in our own estimation of self. … How much credence we give to the opinions our peers have of us, and how little to our very own! — Marcus AureliusWhat are some self-obsessed quotes for girls?
Here are five self obsessed quotes for girls:
1. “I am beautiful, inside and out.” – Unknown
2. “I am not perfect, but I am perfectly me.” – Unknown
3. “I am strong, independent, and I know what I want.” – Unknown
4. “I am not afraid to be who I am, even if it means being different.” – Unknown
5. “I am not afraid to stand up for what I believe in, even if it means standing alone.” – Unknown
These quotes are all about self-love and self-acceptance. They are a reminder that it is okay to be different and be proud of who you are. If you are struggling with self-esteem, these quotes can help you remember that you are worthy of love and happiness.
Final Words
Self love is not a luxury, but a necessity.
Let’s repeat this: Self-love is not zero-sum; you can love yourself and still love others.
With a healthy amount of self-love, you can treat yourself with the same amount of care and respect as you do with your loved ones.
Self-love will help you wake up happier in the mornings and make your relationships more fulfilling.
Finally, understand that the reason to love ourselves is this:
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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