Self-Love

Our first and last love is...self-love.
-Christian Nevell Bovee

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
-Thomas Aquinas

Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.
-Voltaire

Don't forget to love yourself.
-Soren Kierkegaard

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself.
Since you must spend so much time with yourself
you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
-Norman Vincent Peale

You always have to live with yourself,
and it is to your best interest
to see that you have good company -
a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright,
generous, magnanimous companion.
-Orison Swett Marden

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.
You really have to love yourself
to get anything done in this world.
-Lucille Ball

If we really love ourselves,
everything in our life works.
-Louise Hay

You are your own best thing.
-Toni Morrison

When you learn to do kindly things to yourself
then you know what it is to love oneself.
-Gary Zukav

Whenever you interpret your experience negatively,
you are not loving yourself.
-Paul Ferrini

Loving myself means that I do not judge myself.
-Paul Ferrini

One of the hardest things about learning to love yourself
is to remember that all you have to do
is to love yourself for how you are feeling at the moment.
-Gay Hendricks

Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it.
Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.
-Thaddeus Golas

Can you now begin to love all of you
from center to the circumference?
-John Randolph Price

To love yourself right now,
just as you are,
is to give yourself heaven.
-Alan Cohen

You need to fall deeply in love with your self.
-Anne Lamott

To love yourself
is the beginning of a life-long romance.
-Oscar Wilde

Fall in love with the particular manifestation
that is you.
-Ann Mortifee

Imagine when you look in the mirror
that the face looking back at you is someone you truly love.
Just imagine.
-Isha Judd

Do you want to meet the love of your life?
Look in the mirror.
-Byron Katie

I celebrate myself,
and sing myself.
-Walt Whitman

I dote on myself
and there is that lot of me
and all is so luscious.
-Walt Whitman

I love myself:
that's my one constancy.
-Theodore Roethke

You want to be loved because you do not love yourself,
but as soon as you being to love yourself,
you stop asking whether someone else loves you.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti

It's not your job to love me.
It's mine.
-Byron Katie

If you don't love yourself,
how can you expect others
to see what's so beautiful?
-Kelly Rowland

The ultimate lesson we all have to learn is unconditional love,
which includes not only others but ourselves as well.
-Elizabeth Kuebler-Ross

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.
-Pierre Corneille

All the affectionate feelings of a man of others
are an extension of his feelings for himself.
-Aristotle

To love one's self in the right way
and to love one's neighbor
are absolutely analogous concepts,
are at bottom one and the same.
-Soren Kierkegaard

In everything I love, I love my Self,
for the only things we think we don't love
are what we haven't yet come to recognize within ourselves.
-Elisabeth Haich

In dealing with people,
you're always dealing with yourself...
And, in the end,
you come full circle,
where 0 degrees equals 360 degrees
and selfishness is an act of pure love.
-Stephen Mitchell

Two consistent motions act the Soul;
And one regards Itself, and one the Whole.
Thus God and nature link'd the gen'ral frame,
And bade Self-Love and Social be the same.
-Alexander Pope

Love of the Self eliminates concerns with anything else;
it is without attachments.
-Nisargadatta