Beverly Sills Quotes

If you can't love yourself, you can't love other people.

When you love someone, you don't try to change them.

Love yourself. Then find something to love beyond yourself.

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

Learning unconditional love helped me have healthier relationships, including my current marriage.

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.

The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.

Our purpose is to grow up and become love

The most important thing that I know about living is love. Nothing surpasses the benefits received by a human being who makes compassion and love the objective of his or her life. For it is only by compassion and love that anyone fulfills successfully their own life’s journey. Nothing equals love.

When you're all alone, love one another.

Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.

Loving others is easy when you love and accept yourself.

Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place.

As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

You know, I was chubby when I was a little girl. And I have all those issues everyone else has. But I try not to. And I've learned over the years that it's such a waste of time. And people like me whether I'm a little bit fatter or not.

Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.