Self-Love quotes

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Don't change so people will like you. Be yourself and the right people will love the real you. Author Unknown
Stop comparing your behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel. Steven Furtick
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do. Benjamin Spock
Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. Neil Gaiman
Stop apologizing for who you are. There are people out there who will love you for it. Author Unknown
Forgive yourself for the blindness that put you in the path of those who betrayed you. Clarissa Pinkola Estés
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself… Jean Shinoda Bolen
The way you speak to yourself matters. Your inner dialogue is shaping your reality. Author Unknown
You are not too much. You have never been too much. You will never be too much. Author Unknown
Worry about loving yourself, instead of loving the idea of other people loving you. Harry Styles
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting. William Shakespeare
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that… E. E. Cummings
Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited of what could go right. Tony Robbins
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop. Rumi
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Carl Jung
If you want to soar in life, you must first learn to F.L.Y. (First Love Yourself). Mark Sterling
Self-respect, self-worth and self-love, all start with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value. Rob Liano
Be the loving witness to yourself. Yung Pueblo
Healing comes in waves and maybe today the wave hits the rocks and that's okay, that's okay, darling. Ijeoma Umebinyuo
You are the only you that has ever existed. Your worth is not up for debate. Author Unknown
Sometimes you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. H.G. Wells
Self-love isn't selfish. Self-care isn't optional. Author Unknown
Permission to rest is permission to live. Tricia Hersey
You did not wake up today to be mediocre. Author Unknown
The same boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you're made of, not your… Author Unknown
You don't owe anyone your time, your energy, or your attention. Spend them on people who appreciate it. Author Unknown
The relationship with yourself sets the foundation for every other relationship in your life. Author Unknown
Your softness is not a weakness. It is a kind of strength that the world badly needs. Author Unknown
Inhale confidence. Exhale doubt. Author Unknown
I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not… Tracee Ellis Ross
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending. C.S. Lewis
Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions. Do your thing and don't care if they like it. Tina Fey
I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will. Charlotte Brontë
Loving yourself is the greatest revolution. Author Unknown
You will never speak to anyone more than you speak to yourself in your head. Be kind to yourself. Author Unknown
If we don't recognize our gifts, we cannot give them away. Marianne Williamson
Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other… Marianne Williamson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. Marianne Williamson
As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. Marianne Williamson
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. Bill Cosby
I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find, and… Erin Van Vuren
Self-trust is the first secret of success. Ralph Waldo Emerson
I bend so I do not break. Author Unknown
Your body is not an apology. It is a thank you note to whoever made you. Author Unknown
I am learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things not meant for me. A. Mello
I exist as I am, that is enough. Walt Whitman
There is nothing more truly artistic than to love people. Vincent van Gogh
I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. Rita Mae Brown
Sometimes walking away is the strongest thing you can do. Robert Tew
Self-image sets the boundaries of individual accomplishment. Maxwell Maltz
Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible. Maxwell Maltz
Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on. Maxwell Maltz
You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you. Maxwell Maltz
It is more important to find out the truth about ourselves than to find out the truth about any other subject. Maxwell Maltz
You are not your mistakes. They are what you did, not who you are. Maxwell Maltz
If you are going to live with yourself, and be yourself, you might as well learn to like yourself. Maxwell Maltz
Take time daily for relaxing, refreshing, growing and stretching the inner self. Maxwell Maltz
Self-image is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self-image and you change the… Maxwell Maltz
Do not take yourself too seriously. Take your work seriously, but yourself not at all. Maxwell Maltz
Authenticity is being yourself in the presence of others. Werner Erhard
Get clear that you are not your circumstances. You are who you are inside, regardless of what happens… Werner Erhard
Stop trying to fix yourself. Start being yourself. Werner Erhard
The wild is not somewhere out there. The wild is inside you, waiting to be remembered. Stephen Harrod Buhner
Above all, don't lie to yourself. Fyodor Dostoevsky
You are your best thing. Toni Morrison
And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good. John Steinbeck
No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself. Virginia Woolf
I am not an angel, and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Charlotte Brontë
I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now. Louisa May Alcott
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. Alice Walker
I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. Sylvia Plath
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Kurt Vonnegut
Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we'll ever do. Brené Brown
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be. Jane Austen
It is necessary for me to be alone a good deal of the time. Daniel Defoe
You are the only one who has the power to decide who you want to be. Mario Vargas Llosa
Inside us there is something that has no name; that something is what we are. Jose Saramago
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Ralph Ellison
If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do. Ken Kesey
If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. Rick Riordan
Once you've accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you. George R.R. Martin
We do not need magic to change the world; we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. J.K. Rowling
You are loved just as you are. Hermann Hesse
Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was another. Toni Morrison
Authenticity is the daily practice of letting go of who we think we're supposed to be. Brené Brown
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Rumi
Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. Rumi
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself. Rumi
Accept the pain, but don't accept that you deserved it. Brandon Sanderson
Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. George R.R. Martin
Maybe I like the way I shrink. Diana Wynne Jones
But you must remember, even at the lowest, that you are not nothing. N.K. Jemisin
She wasn't a lost thing. She wasn't broken. She was a wonder. Leigh Bardugo
Everyone should be able to go to their own particular fountain of life. Michael Ende
Wild birds die in cages. Katherine Arden
It is no bad thing to learn to take care of yourself. Kristin Cashore
We are what we believe we are. C.S. Lewis
Your life is yours alone. Rise up and live it. Terry Goodkind
You're a story, not a footnote. Laini Taylor
Whatever you are physically, male or female, strong or weak, you can control who you are emotionally. Cassandra Clare
Without imperfection, you or I would not exist. Cassandra Clare
Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done. Marie Lu
Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself. Lois McMaster Bujold
If you trust in yourself, you'll know how to take care of yourself. Terry Pratchett
Nice doesn't mean weak. Holly Black
Names are not always our own. Sarah J. Maas
The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance. Frank Herbert
Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia. C.S. Lewis
She would not be the instrument of anyone's will but her own. Kristin Cashore
There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. J.R.R. Tolkien
I cannot always protect you. So I want you to be able to protect yourself. Brandon Sanderson
If I am to be measured, let me be measured by what I have done and not by what others believe of me. Robin Hobb
If you don't turn your life into a story, you just become a part of someone else's story. Terry Pratchett
We have to find our own way through this life. Robin Hobb
Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. Neil Gaiman
We are all the heroes of our own stories. Holly Black
The truth is, I was a arrogant young man in some ways. But I had reason to be. Patrick Rothfuss
When everyone knows you're a monster, you needn't waste time doing every monstrous thing. Leigh Bardugo
Names are not important. It's what lies inside of you that matters. Sarah J. Maas
No one can hurt you worse than you can hurt yourself. Joe Abercrombie

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