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If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
Oct 1, 2025
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.
Love yourself. Just love yourself. In fact, the love of the self cures every kind of problem you have with yourself. For instance, if someone calls you nappy-headed, it rolls right off your body, if you love nappy hair. Or if someone calls you buck-toothed or too black, that won't be a problem if you love being buck-toothed or black. If you love it, then so what. The development of self-love cures many of the ills that people suffer from.
Don't hide yourself in regret, Just love yourself and you're set I'm on the right track, baby I was born this way
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.
You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.
People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.
About all you can do in life is be who you are.
Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.
Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.
If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness.
An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.
If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.