Self-love and narcissism are not the same thing. Narcissism is toxic to the self and others, but self-love brings one happiness and satisfaction in life.
Self-love is a mix of self-esteem, self-acceptance, and self-compassion.
We often criticize ourselves for our slip-ups, forgetting we’re humans. And humans make mistakes. For example, when the result of our attempt falls below expectations, we’re quick to judge ourselves negatively. Instead, we could show ourselves some love by appreciating the efforts of our act.
Self-love means understanding, caring for, and forgiving yourself, just as you would do with the most loved people in your life.
Remember: You never need to feel guilty about loving yourself.
37 Self-Love Quotes To Make You Feel Strong And Prized
With enough self-love, you pursue your goals with verve and grit, while never punishing yourself if you were to fail.
So, girls and women (and others too!), if you need some inspiration to fall deep in love with yourself, these following quotes will take you there!
Here are 37 self-love quotes to empower the indomitable spirit in you:
1. Loving yourself makes it easier to love others. You can’t truly love another until you know how to love yourself.
2. You were born with a right to be happy. Self-love is respecting and practicing that right for your happiness and wellbeing.
3. 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
4. Those who love themselves know to set limits and say no to activities and relationships that drain them physically, emotionally and spiritually.
5. Self love is not selfish love. You can love yourself while also loving others. It’s not a zero-sum game.
6. 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.
7. 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)?
8. To love yourself more, you need to set yourself free from any conditions. True self-love is unconditional.
9. No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love. – Edmond Mbiaka
10. 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.
11. Self love is rising above the perfectionist standards you have set for yourselves. It is accepting you are human and make mistakes just like any other. So start being real, and drop being perfect.
12. When you compare yourself to others, you actually kill your ability to love yourself.
13. Self-love is respecting and practicing your right to be happy. It’ also giving yourself a smile and a hand each time you fall down.
14. To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness. – Robert Morley
15. Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. – Louise L. Hay
16. You can’t find a chance of loving yourself if you’re always criticizing yourself. Self criticism and self love can’t live in the same house.
17. To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections. – Sandra Bierig
18. Self love is getting ready and looking good just for yourself, even when you know there’s no one to see you in person.
19. Self love is calling yourself by name and saying, “Hey dude, I love you for who you are, just as you are!”
20. People who love themselves know exactly who they are, and what they want for themselves.
21. If you have the ability to love, love yourself first. – Charles Bukowski
22. Self love is investing time and resources to educate and grow yourself. Give yourself the gift of knowledge.
23. You know you’re in self-love when see your reflection and it makes you smile. Why don’t you do that more often?
24. When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier. – Diane Von Furstenberg
25. Self-love begins when we observe our actions and words with compassion as if we were our own best friend. — Sara M Bosworth
26. 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
27. You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. – Buddha
28. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. – Oscar Wilde
29. I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do. – Brené Brown
30. Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. – Lucille Ball
31. 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
32. You don’t need to love everything about yourself to have self-love; loving yourself is first about accepting yourself completely.
33. You can’t pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first. – Norm Kelly
34. If you’re searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.
35. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
36. Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like your love yourself. Love yourself.
37. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does – that makes you a winner right here. – Venus Williams, one of the all-time greats of women’s tennis, and the only tennis player to have won a medal at four Olympic Games.
Final Words
Self-love, the psychologists say, is appreciating the goodness and the humanness in yourself. It’s being accepting of your flaws and fragility.
Self-love is the belief written indelibly in your mind that your missteps and mistakes do not make you any less worthy of your joy or love.
It doesn’t mean you’re selfish if you’re practicing self-love. It rather means you have a healthy and joyful relationship with yourself. It rather means you can love yourself as much as your best friend.
In these times of pandemic and quarantine, self-love is no more a luxury – rather, it’s a necessity. In such challenging times, you’re first of all your own person before everyone else’s. If you fall out of favor with yourself, then all those who depend on you will suffer along with you.
At this point, when you connect to the rest of your world through screens, it’s more crucial that you connect to yourself with deep love. Then you can keep growing your resilience muscle.
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, remember 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
Did you know people with a positive mindset have 6 traits carrying the acronym MOGRAH? Find out here: How To Build An A+ Positive Mindset.
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Author Bio: Sandip Roy is psychology writer, happiness researcher, and medical doctor. Founder of Happiness India Project, and chief editor of its blog. He writes popular-science articles on positive psychology and related topics.
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