Quotes about Self-love

We are all so blinded and upset by self-love that everyone imagines he has a just right to exalt himself and to undervalue all others in comparison to self.

You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.

If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty. "Who cares?"

It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything.

You may think there is a lot wrong with you, but there is also a lot right with you.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Do not compare yourself to what others seem to be.

When you have learned compassion for yourself, compassion for others is automatic.

Direct. IV. Be a good husband to your wife, and a good father to your children, and a good master to your servants, and let love have dominion in all your government, that your inferiors may easily find, that it is their interest to obey you. For interest and self-love are the natural rulers of the world.

Have you ever experienced the embarrassed and red-faced look of shame and self-recognition on the face of anyone who has been loved gratuitously after they have clearly done wrong? This is the way that God seduces us all into the economy of grace—by loving us in spite of ourselves in the very places where we cannot or will not or dare not love ourselves.

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.