Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

Radical self-care is what we've been longing for, desperate for, our entire lives-friendship with our own hearts.

Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

You always have to remember to take care of yourself first and foremost, because when you stop taking care of yourself you get out of balance and you really forget how to take care of others.

I find that if I've taken care of myself first, I can then be there fully for everyone else.

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.

What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.

I ain't done nothing wrong, but love thy self. And harm other niggaz that wanna stop my health.

You're able to love others, to give to others, and do for others by giving and doing for yourself first.

Putting yourself first is not selfish. Quite the opposite. You must put your happiness and health first before you can be of help to anyone else.

Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

Make yourself a priority. Fill yourself up so that you can give more to others.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.

Putting your well-being first - like putting your oxygen mask on before you help the person next to you - that really benefits all your relationships.

The most satisfied and enlightened people realize that successful and dynamic living starts from within. Before you can care for others, you must care for yourself.

Selfish isn't a dirty word. It means we take care of ourselves and are able to give back.

Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.

You can't be a resource for others unless you nourish yourself.

Give to yourself as much as you give of yourself! This means you have to put yourself first.

I'm going to take care of myself because that's what I need to take care of.

I've had enough of worrying about everybody else. Now I'm taking care of me.

As you get older, it's always a process of self-love, learning how to really do that for yourself instead of trying to find it outside yourself.

If you don't have self love you can never find it outside of yourself.