You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
— Buddha
Special Love Yourself quotations
Open your eyes to the beauty around you, open your mind to the wonders of life, open your heart to those who love you, and always be true to yourself.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
If you want to change the world, start with yourself.
If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours.
If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.
I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being.
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.
White people think when you love yourself you hate them.
No, when I love myself they become irrelevant to me.
If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.
Your whole appearance is a lie and it could never be true.
And if you really loved yourself, then you would try and be you.
If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.
Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.
Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.
Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination;
never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you'll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.
The world says love yourself, grab all you can, follow your heart.
Jesus says deny yourself, grab your cross and follow me.
Discover yourself, otherwise you have to depend on other people's opinions who don't know themselves.
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart
Love thy neighbor as thyself because you are your neighbor.
It is illusion that makes you think that your neighbor is someone other than yourself.
Become one with eternity. Become part of your environment. Take off your clothes. Forget yourself. Make love. Self-destruction is the only way to peace.
Judging others makes us blind, whereas love is illuminating.
By judging others we blind ourselves to our own evil and to the grace which others are just as entitled to as we are.
Listen to the inner light; It will guide you. Listen to the inner Peace; It will feed you. Listen to the inner Love; It will transform you, It will divinise you, It will immortalise you.
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.
If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
Be honest with yourself. The world is not honest with you. The world loves hypocrisy. When you are honest with yourself you find the road to inner peace.
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
In those perfect moments you find beauty you never knew existed.
You find yourself and you friends all over again, you find something to fight for, something to love. Something to show the world.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You're doing things you've never done before, and more importantly, you're Doing Something.
It’s at the heart of everything we struggle with in life: longing to be valuable, to be accepted, to be prized, to be worth something to somebody, to have a life that matters, and God’s saying ‘You matter! I didn’t make anyone else like you. You’re not a reprint or a lithograph. You’re a one-of-a-kind, original creation of God.
Frustration, discouragement, and depression mean you are working against yourself.
Protect yourself......from your own thoughts.
It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.
People hate you for 1 of 3 reasons. 1) They hate themselves 2) They want to be you 3) They see you as a threat When you love yourself you are incapable of hating anyone no matter what they've done.
When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.