316 Inspirational Quotes About Loving Yourself

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

- Oscar Wilde

"Love yourself, fiercely and unconditionally."

- Atticus

"Self-love is the decision to be in a lifelong romance with yourself."

- Yung Pueblo

"It's not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It's necessary."

- Mandy Hale

"Be you, love you. All ways, always."

- Alexandra Elle

"Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line."

- Lucille Ball

"One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others."

- Bell Hooks

"You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be OK on your own before you can be OK with somebody else. You've got to value yourself and know that you're worth everything."

- Jennifer Lopez

"To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now."

- Alan Cohen

"Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults."

- Les Brown

"How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you."

- Rupi Kaur

"I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect."

- Maya Angelou

"Self-love is an ocean, and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. But you must come first."

- Beau Taplin

"It's all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self-love deficit."

- Eartha Kitt

"Forgiving yourself, believing in yourself and choosing to love yourself are the best gifts one could receive."

- Brittany Burgunder

"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love."

- Brené Brown

"Treat yourself like someone you love."

- Glennon Doyle

"I'm all about body positivity and self-love because I believe that we can save the world if we first save ourselves."

- Lizzo

"You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else."

- Jennifer Lopez

"Tell yourself how wonderful you are, how great you are. Tell yourself how much you love yourself."

- Don Miguel Ruiz

"Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself."

- Tyra Banks

"My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws, and to stop this incessant worrying that I can't be loved as I am."

- Anaïs Nin

"Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you."

- Steve Maraboli

"The first step to loving who you are is to accept who you are, including the parts you might not be proud of. Embrace your journey and believe in your potential."

- Jasmine Star

"Let's not be afraid of shining the light on what feels terrifying to be seen because you deserve to be seen; every beautiful, unexplainable, mysterious edge of you deserves to be seen and held by your precious loving hands."

- Lumalia

"Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are."

- Beyoncé

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Look inward—the loving begins with you."

- Oprah Winfrey

"And I said to my body, 'I want to be your friend.' It took a long breath. And replied, 'I have been waiting my whole life for this."

- Nayyirah Waheed

"Self-love is the practice of appreciating and nurturing yourself in every moment."

- Yung Pueblo

"Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others."

- Christopher Germer

"You are deserving of the love that resides within you."

- Brianna Wiest

"You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging."

- Brené Brown

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."

- Roy T. Bennett

"You are not an option, a choice or a soft place to land after a long battle. You were meant to be the one. If you can wrap yourself around the idea that you are something incredible, then you will stop excusing behavior that rapes your very soul. You were never meant to teach someone to love you. You were meant to be loved."

- Shannon L. Alder

"Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there's one person who never ceased to love you - yourself."

- Sanhita Baruah

"You have to learn to love yourself before you can love someone else. Because it's only when we love ourselves that we feel worthy of someone else's love."

- Alyssa B. Sheinmel

"There is you and you. This is a relationship. This is the most important relationship."

- Nayyirah Waheed

"Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you."

- Beyoncé

"Choose, every day, to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all worthy of love."

- Alison Malee

"You are enough just as you are."

- Meghan Markle

"If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that."

- Gisele Bundchen

"May you choose yourself, always!"

- Malebo Sephodi

"I remind myself to be kind to myself, and as slightly ridiculous as it may sound, to treat myself in the same gentle way I'd want to treat a daughter of mine. It really helps."

- Emma Stone

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections."

- Sandra Bierig

"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! Shout loud, 'I am lucky to be what I am!..."

- Dr. Seuss

"All love begins with the love within."

- Vironika Tugaleva

"Gonna love myself. No, I don't need anybody else."

- Hailee Steinfeld

"Be the love you never received."

- Rune Lazuli

"The journey of self-love begins when you let go of who you think you have to be."

- Yung Pueblo

"They lied. The goal was never to be the prettiest woman in the room. that's boring as hell. It was always to be the most alive. to be the most youest you. therefore the most radiant! most magnetic! most incandescent most poetic the most true."

- Chelsie Diane

"You do not have to sacrifice to be loved."

- Dr. Chelsea Page

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

- Yung Pueblo

"Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort."

- Deborah Day

"No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance."

- Robert Holden

"You're safe. You can stop being ashamed of your past. You can stop creating stories that everyone will leave you. Believe in your ability to get through anything. Look how far you've come. You're safe now."

- Dr. Nicole LePera

"You're allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously."

- Brianna Wiest

"The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore."

- C. JoyBell

"You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously."

- Sophia Bush

"By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better."

- Laverne Cox

"I like me. I like my story and all the bumps and bruises. That's what makes me uniquely me."

- Michelle Obama

"In your own life it's important to know how spectacular you are."

- Steve Maraboli

"As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow."

- Charlie Chaplin

"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself."

- Charlotte Brontë

"When you say 'yes' to others make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself."

- Paul Klee

"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."

- Kurt Cobain

"Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness."

- Deborah Day

"You are kind. You are strong. You are important."

- Kathryn Stockett

"The universe took its time on you."

- Rupi Kaur

"Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious; you get to choose how you use it."

- Brianna Wiest

"Everything you ever wanted is learning how to draw it out of yourself because you are that powerful."

- Lumalia

"the universe took its time on you crafted you precisely so you could offer the world something distinct from everyone else so when you doubt how you were created you doubt an energy greater than us both"

- Rupi Kaur

"Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are."

- Stephanie LaHart

"Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others."

- Parker Palmer

"Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire."

- Rumi

"Once you've accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you."

- George R.R. Martin

"The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else."

- E. E. Cummings

"If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life."

- Anne Hathaway

"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting."

- William Shakespeare

"Our first and last love is self-love."

- Christian Nestell Bovee

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

- Stephen Chbosky

"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Be a master at loving yourself and people will follow."

- Kim Guerra

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?"

- Goldie Hawn

"Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You are not a drop in the ocean, you are the ocean in a drop."

- Rumi

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"Stop making yourself smaller to fit into some narrative to be more pleasing to the world."

- Chelsie Diane

"Happiness is an inside job. Don't assign anyone else that much power over your life."

- Mandy Hale

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice. It takes love."

- Maza Dohta

"And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?"

- Rumi

"When you connect with your body and embrace its messages, you will discover the power of self-love."

- Phillip Shepherd

"Sometimes self-love shows up as the willingness to release people who have no interest in learning how to love you. You deserve to be handled with care."

- Michell C. Clark

"I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being."

- Hafiz of Shiraz

"Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy."

- Robert Tew

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."

- Walt Whitman

"It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes."

- Sally Field

"The same light you see in others is shining within you, too."

- Morgan Harper Nichols

"When admiring other people's gardens, don't forget to tend to your own flowers."

- Sanober Khan

"When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself."

- Paulo Coelho

"Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?"

- Ian

"I'm not here to grant you the extraordinary love you never had for yourself. I'm here, on my own accord, to love you. So that when you stare into my mirror eyes, you may see how extraordinary you are."

- Kamand Kojouri

"I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do."

- Brené Brown

"Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable."

- M. Scott Peck

"When you take care of yourself, you're a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better."

- Solange Knowles

"I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better."

- Frida Kahlo

"My body, she is my dessert that I trust in enough to leave the playground. And now she's been given the voice that was told to hush. With it, she's learning to listen to the songs of the birds but more importantly the sound of her own powerful hum."

- Lumalia

"What if we are actually doing enough?"

- Katie O'Farrell

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Don't forget that you're human. It's okay to have a meltdown, just don't unpack and live there. Cry it out and then refocus on where you are headed."

- Brianna Wiest

"Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Stay true to yourself. An original is worth more than a copy."

- Suzy Kassem

"At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person."

- Taraji P. Henson

"You have to believe that your ideas, and your hope, and your being, deserve to take up space."

- Bianca Sparacino

"I am sure of myself as a person. I am sure of my talent. I'm sure of my love for life and that sort of thing. I am very content, I like the kind of person that I am."

- Dolly Parton

"The things that make me different are the things that make me."

- Piglet

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

"The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people."

- Jamie Lee Curtis

"Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself."

- Coco Chanel

"I am stepping right into where I am with no shame, and it feels good."

- Andie MacDowell

"I'm safe inside this container called me."

- Haruki Murakami

"One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself."

- Dwayne Johnson

"You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you."

- Brian Tracy

"Be kind to yourself, and then let your kindness fill the world."

- Pema Chödrön

"even in the loneliest moments i have been there for myself."

- Sanober Khan

"Let today be the day you love yourself enough to no longer just dream of a better life; let it be the day you act upon it."

- Steve Maraboli

"For me, self-love is like, 'Am I sleeping enough? Eating well?' Not: 'Am I eating well to be able to fit into my skinny jeans?' But: 'Am I eating well to be healthy and strong?' And to acknowledge the good, because there is always a lot of good."

- Kerry Washington

"Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself - what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat."

- Warsan Shire

"You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible."

- Deepak Chopra

"To hold something new, we have to let go of something else. I keep wondering what it is that keeps us hanging on to the very things we find sentimental but also poison us with every repeated immersion."

- Lumalia

"As we embody our true self and worth, we change our vibration and call in everything we need to continue our journey."

- Spirit Daughter

"I've decided I'm no longer in my queen era I'm in my lover era. Queens are served, feared, made slave to her kingdom and subjects. I don't want subjects nor to be served.I want to be madly in love, passionate, crazed with affection, overflowing with lavishness, deep deep in adoration all mutually reciprocated in a cycle of overflow."

- Lumalia

"It's hard to feel desire when you don't feel desirable"

- Christine Feehan

"Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self."

- Queen Latifah

"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art."

- Madonna

"You will belong here. . .You will make anywhere beautiful."

- Jasmine Warga

"Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another."

- Toni Morrison

"But I sort of refuse to be an outsider, even though I know that I very much look like one to a lot of people, and I refuse to view myself in such terms."

- Mindy Kaling

"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people, and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference."

- Jane Fonda

"When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be."

- Elliot Page

"You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here."

- Max Ehrmann

"Believe you can, and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"My strength is something I own, not something I seek."

- Kimmery Moss

"Sometimes I pretend to be normal. But it gets boring. So I go back to being me."

- Ain Eineziz

"We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light."

- Mary Dunbar

"You change the world by being yourself."

- Yoko Ono

"Keep watering yourself. You're growing."

- E.Russell

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

- Dolly Parton

"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."

- Andre Gide

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life."

- Marcus Garvey

"Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it."

- Tina Fey

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."

- Sylvia Plath

"Seduce yourself first."

- Kamand Kojouri

"Love only yourself a little bit longer, until you can't stand not to love someone else."

- Kiera Cass

"Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a crash and burn, there is always another episode awaiting us and then another. There are always more opportunities to get it right, to fashion our lives in the ways we deserve to have them."

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

"You do not just wake up and become the butterfly – growth is a process."

- Rupi Kaur

"The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a door, if you have an old, old story, that is a door. If you love the sky and the water so much you almost cannot bear it, that is a door. If you yearn for a deeper life, a full life, a sane life, that is a door."

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

"When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others."

- Anne Frank

"If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down."

- Toni Morrison

"Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions."

- Kathryn Budig

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. Love yourself enough to follow your passions."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."

- Mark Twain

"She believed she could, so she did."

- R. S. Grey

"Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn't know before you learned it."

- Maya Angelou

"She remembered who she was and the game changed."

- Lalah Delia

"Healing doesn't mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life."

- Akshay Dubey

"Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life."

- Steve Jobs

"Your only job is to be your truest self."

- Chelsie Diane

"Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical."

- Sophia Loren

"Change can be scary, but you know what's scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing."

- Mandy Hale

"Inner peace is not about denying emotions but accepting them and allowing them to pass through you without resistance."

- Gabrielle Bernstein

"The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why."

- Mark Twain

"Faith is seeing the light with your heart when all you with your eyes is darkness. Faith is fully trust in the unknown that lives within you. In short, faith is believing who you truly are."

- Luis Ojeda

"At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it."

- Aaron Lauritsen

"There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out."

- Aaron Lauritsen

"Do your thing and don't care if they like it."

- Tina Fey

"Just do what works for you, because there will always be somebody who thinks differently."

- Michelle Obama

"The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go."

- Dodinsky

"Be grateful for your life, every detail of it, and your face will come to shine like a sun, and everyone who sees it will be made glad and peaceful."

- Rumi

"It's not sitting in the room solo working on ourselves. It's not who you say you are. You learn who you are unconditionally. Not when life gives you what you want but when life gives you the opposite and that's how you build confidence."

- Shoshanna Raven

"Inner peace is not found by staying on the surface of life but by diving deep within."

- Eckhart Tolle

"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without."

- Gautama Buddha

"Your wound is probably not your fault, but your healing is your responsibility."

- Denice Frohman

"Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don't let them change who you are."

- Aaron Lauritsen

"Nothing can disturb your peace of mind unless you allow it to."

- Roy T. Bennett

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be."

- Wayne W. Dyer

"The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it's in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I'm caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability."

- Ram Dass

"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions."

- Dalai Lama

"Don't be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are alive."

- Hafez

"One of the greatest lessons in compassion I had learned was that holding onto resentment and anger doesn't serve anyone, especially yourself."

- James R. Doty, M.D

"Can I hold both hands open at the same time and find peace in the eye of the storm? Allowing new longing to continuously emerge in the one hand, edging me forward with clear intent ; while at the same time transferring those achieved longings to the hand of gratitude, deeply marveling at the richness which lays accumulated there. Can I find joy in the impermanent dance of the open hands?"

- Sophie Callewaert

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change their future by merely changing their attitude."

- Oprah Winfrey

"I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did."

- Henry James

"Wildflower; pick up your pretty little head, It will get easier, your dreams are not dead."

- Nikki Rowe

"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Oprah Winfrey

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."

- Michael Altshuler

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Self-confidence is contagious."

- Stephen Richards

"The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it."

- J.M. Barrie

"Don't worry if people think you're crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they're destined to be."

- Jennifer Elisabeth

"The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do."

- Swati Sharma

"I am my best work—a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines."

- Audre Lorde

"Your art is not about how many people like your work your art is about if your heart likes your work if your soul likes your work it's about how honest you are with yourself and you must never trade honesty for relatability"

- Rupi Kaur

"Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it."

- Gautama Buddha

"When you are grateful, fear disappears, and abundance appears."

- Anthony Robbins

"Count your blessings, not your troubles."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong."

- N.R. Narayana Murthy

"Healing comes when we choose to walk away from darkness and move towards a brighter light."

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

"Stop asking how the world wants us to be and start asking how we want the world to be."

- Glennon Doyle

"The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive."

- John Green

"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you."

- Deepak Chopra

"Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change."

- Jim Rohn

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"Your life is the ceremony. Your heart is the altar. Each present moment can be the ritual."

- Sheleana Aiyana

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement."

- Woodrow Wilson

"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent."

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

"Plant hope in your heart's wounds."

- Alexandra Vasiliu

"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still."

- Chinese Proverb

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves."

- Thomas Edison

"Life is tough, my darling, but so are you."

- Stephanie Bennett Henry

"Stop wanting things and put all your energy into becoming the kind of person that would already have them."

- Jesh De Rox

"The most important thing is to enjoy your life—to be happy—it's all that matters."

- Audrey Hepburn

"Women are like teabags. You never know how strong they are until they are in hot water."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"The only thing standing between you and your goal is the story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it."

- Jordan Belfort

"From this point forward, you don't even know how to quit in life."

- Aaron Lauritsen

"It is interesting how often we can't see all the ways in which we are being strong."

- Lena Dunham

"At 54, I am still in progress, and I hope that I always will be."

- Michelle Obama

"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!"

- Audrey Hepburn

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Every exit is an entrance to someplace else."

- Patti LaBelle

"All lights turned off can be turned on."

- Noah Kahan

"Make no comparisons. Keep your head down and do your own thing."

- Torrie Asai

"Stop taking flying lessons from people that have never left the ground."

- Chelsie Diane

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

"Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond."

- Aaron Lauritsen

"Life is about change. Sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, but most of the time, it's both."

- Kristin Kreuk

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

- Alan Watts

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"Kindness begins with the understanding that we all struggle."

- Charles Glassman

"Change is inevitable, but growth is optional."

- John C. Maxwell

"The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away."

- Pablo Picasso

"Creativity takes courage."

- Henri Matisse

"Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience."

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"Whatever purifies you is the right path."

- Rumi

"The struggles we endure today will be the 'good old days' we laugh about tomorrow."

- Aaron Lauritsen

"The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead."

- Bette Davis

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart."

- Confucius

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow."

- Aaron Lauritsen

"Those who mistrust their own abilities are being too wicked to themselves, discouraging themselves from doing what they should have been excelling in. If you are good at discouraging yourself, you can't be a good leader because leadership is built on inspiring others to face challenges."

- Israelmore Ayivor

"In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"If you have yet to be called an incorrigible, defiant woman, don't worry, there is still time."

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway."

- Earl Nightingale

"The only Zen you can find on the mountaintop is the Zen you bring up there."

- Robert M. Pirsig

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Great discoveries require faith to look into places we haven't been."

- Jesh De Rox

"Everything we touch also touches us. everything we are touched by is also touched by us."

- Katie O'Farrell

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

"Make love to trees. Make love to food. Make love to air. Make love to life."

- Chel, Evoking Joy

"Beauty comes from a life well lived"

- Jennifer Garner

"If you wish to be loved, love."

- Hecaton of Rhodes

"Love. Laugh. And live it up!"

- Christie Brinkley

"I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you."

- Roy Croft

"True friends don't come with conditions."

- Aaron Lauritsen

"If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting."

- Aaron Lauritsen

"You are my today and all of my tomorrows."

- Leo Christopher

"Patience is the art of hoping."

- Luc de Clapiers

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."

- Mark Twain

"A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Readers of fantasy fiction actually imagine having the abilities of the villains more often then the protagonist. Bravo writers!"

- C. Toni Graham

"Patience is not the ability to wait but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting."

- Joyce Meyer

"Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than you have in mind."

- David G. Allen

"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

"To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness."

"Talk to yourself like someone you love."

"Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."

"One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself."

"Keep taking time for yourself until you're you again."

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"Tear off the mask, your face is glorious."

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

"Every setback is a setup for a comeback."