loving oneself Quotes

Aging gracefully means being flexible, being open, allowing change, enjoying change and loving yourself.

Today I am loving and kind to myself and others.

We cannot love ourselves unless we love others, and we cannot love others unless we love ourselves. But a selfish love of ourselves makes us incapable of loving others.

If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others.

You're not going to be perfect, but the most important thing is not trying to please anybody. It's loving yourself inside out.

Life is a journey and it's about growing and changing and coming to terms with who and what you are and loving who and what you are.

I love my body as it is. People in the industry have been telling me to lose weight for years but I like the way I look. I give credit to my mom for helping me feel good about my appearance - for making sure I never felt embarrassed about my body, because she was never worried about looking too big.

Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generatng that kind of energy toward yourself - if you are not capable of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of protecting yourself - it is very difficult to take care of another person. In the Buddhist teaching, it's clear that to love oneself is the foundation of the love of other people. Love is a practice. Love is truly a practice.

Beauty is about what's inside us, loving who we are and nurturing that. Outward beauty can really blossom from there.

Even towards yourself you have to be tremendously loving, because you too are god's form. One has to love oneself, one has to love all. Love is prayer. And the more you love, the more you will feel your consciousness expanding, becoming bigger - because whomsoever we love becomes part of our being, we include him. Mm? A bird on the wing, and we look at the bird with great love - suddenly we are not two: the bird is inside us and we are inside the bird.

I don't want to force my vibe on anyone, but you've got to learn to love yourself, as opposed to being in love with yourself.

Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself. You must love yourself first, of course, and you must protect yourself so that nobody overrides you, overrules you, or steps on you. Just say, 'Just a minute. I'm worth everything, dear.'

I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.

Love between two people can last a long time if the people love themselves some, and are ready to give love to another person.

I am worth loving. I do not have to earn love. I am lovable because I exist. Others reflect the love I have for myself.

By loving yourself, you're going to be a happy person. A lot of people don't like themselves for whatever reason.

It’s all about loving what you got and rocking it.

So she had to satisfy herself with the idea of love - loving the loving of things whose existence she didn't care at all about. Love itself became the object of her love. She loved herself in love, she loved loving love, as love loves loving, and was able, in that way, to reconcile herself with a world that fell so short of what she would have hoped for. It was not the world that was the great and saving lie, but her willingness to make it beautiful and fair, to live a once-removed life, in a world once-removed from the one in which everyone else seemed to exist.

God's love for us is not the reason for which we should love him. God's love for us is the reason for us to love ourselves.

You have to love yourself before you can love anyone. I think that’s very, very important, no matter how old you are or what you’re doing. You have to be able to love yourself because that’s when things fall into place.

And if you stop and think about it you won't believe it's true: That all the love you've been giving has all been meant for you.

Whatever else you do, listen to your Deepest Self. Love Her and be true to Her, speak Her truth, always.

If you can believe the God who is perfect loves you then you can believe that you are worth loving.

I've really come to realize you have to love yourself before you can expect someone else to.

The demand that we love our neighbor as ourselves contains as an axiom the demand that we shall love ourselves, shall accept ourselves as we were created.