Self-love is very underrated, and not many people understand what it means, enough to embrace it. At the end of the day, we all need to remind ourselves of the value we have within ourselves.
Even when you do not meet your own expectations, it is important that we do not reprimand ourselves too much. You are good enough and that is all that matters.
Here are 50 self love quotes that will inspire and empower you:
- “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
- “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” – Rupi Kaur
- “You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.” – Diane Von Furstenberg
- “Confidence is the ability to feel beautiful, without needing someone to tell you.” – Mandy Hale
- “Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.” – Robert Holden
- “In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.” – Andrea Dykstra
- “You deserve someone who makes you feel like the otherworldly creature you are. Yourself.” – Amanda Lovelace
- “Self confidence is the best outfit.” – Unknown
- “Treat her like you never want to lose her.” – r.h. Sin
- “Heal yourself first. The rest will come later.” – Unknown
- “When life puts you in touchy situations, don’t say, ‘Why me?’ Just say, ‘Try me.’” – Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
- “She never needed to be saved. She only wanted to be loved the correct way. She wasn’t looking for a hero. All she wanted was someone she could trust outside of herself.” – r.h. Sin
- “I think in life you should work on yourself until the day you die.” – Serena Williams
- “Love is the absence of judgment.” – Dhali Lama
- “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” – Rumi
- “If we treated ourselves as well as we treated our best friend, can you imagine?” – Meghan Markle
- “In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.” – Andrea Dystra
- “Just do what works for you, because there will always be somebody who thinks differently.” – Michelle Obama
- “Nobody is perfect. I just don’t believe in perfection. But I do believe in saying, ‘This is who I am and look at me not being perfect!’ I’m proud of that.” – Kate Winslet
- “Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.” – Wayne Dyer.
- “Regardless of how anyone else feels about me, I am going to choose to love myself today.” – Unknown
- “Love yourself first and everything else falls into place. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.” – Lucille Ball
- “I’m not going to apologize for who I am and I’m going to actually love the skin that I’m in. I’m not gonna be striving for some other version of myself.” – Amy Schumer
- “Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you, who you are.” – Beyoncé
- “The quality of your relationship with yourself determines the quality of your relationship with everything else.” – Dr. Robert Holden
- “Learning to love yourself is the greatest love of all.” – Whitney Houston
- “Self-love seems so often unrequited.” – Anthony Powell
- “Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” – Louise L. Hay.
- “Work on you, for you.” – Unknown
- “Trust your gut. Forgive yourself. Be grateful.” – Cheryl Strayed
- “When I accept myself just as I am, I am freed from the burden of needing you accept me.” – Unknown
- “There is no sense in punishing your future for the mistakes of your past. Forgive yourself, grow from it, and then let it go.” – Melanie Koulouris
- “Beauty begins the moment you decided to be yourself.” – Coco Chanel
- “Self love. It doesn’t mean that everyone will treat you the way you deserve to be treated. It means that you won’t let them change the way you see yourself; nor will you stick around for them to destroy you.” – Tony A. Gaskins Jr
- “Never give up on anyone. And that includes not giving up on yourself.” – Dieter F Uchtdorf
- “I am not looking to escape my darkness, I’m learning to love myself here.” – Rune Lazuli
- “Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” – Louise Hay
- “Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.” – Pema Chodron
- “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” – Brene Brown
- “You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.” – Yogi Bhajan
- “Loving yourself isn’t vanity; it’s sanity.” – Katrina Mayer
- “Plant hope in your heart’s wounds.” – Alexandra Vasiliu
- “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” – Carl Gustav Jung
- “Self-love is the greatest middle finger of all time.” – Unknown
- “It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.” – Sally Field
- “My heart is beating, and I’m breathing, and nothing anybody has ever done has changed that.” – Rupi Kaur
- “I am what I am. I can’t help myself and if you don’t like it get with somebody else.” – Jonas Brothers
- “The same light you see in others is shining within you, too.” – MHN
- “Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.” – Unknown
- “You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” – Eckhart Tolle
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