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Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.
Sep 14, 2025
This is our true wealth: the riches we take with us, the joy we carry inside, the support we learn to give ourselves, and the self-loving that flows as a natural by-product of that support.
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.
Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.
Created man cannot become a son of God and god by grace through deification, unless he is first through his own free choice begotten in the Spirit by means of the self-loving and independent power dwelling naturally in him.
My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.
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.
The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true.
I celebrate myself, and sing myself.
People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.
You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.
Do you know how powerful you are?
It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to.
I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?
Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.
My primary relationship is with myself- all others are mirrors of it. As I learn to love myself, I automatically receive the love and appreciation that I desire from others. If I am commited to myself and to living my truth, I will attract others with equal commitment. My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.
So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
The most dangerous thing in American society is a self-respecting and self-loving black person, because they're on the road to freedom and that means they're gonna run up against the powers that be.
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.
Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one.
When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.
Loving yourself...does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion
It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
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.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.