100+ Inspirational Quotes for Self Love to Empower Your Inner Journey

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

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

- Louise L. Hay

"Look inward—the loving begins with you."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Rumi

"Love yourself, fiercely and unconditionally."

- Atticus

"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 oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Tyra Banks

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

- Yung Pueblo

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

- Roy T. Bennett

"You are enough just as you are."

- Meghan Markle

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Lucille Ball

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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 the practice of appreciating and nurturing yourself in every moment."

- Yung Pueblo

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

- Yung Pueblo

"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

"No other love, no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love."

- Edmond Mbiaka

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

- Brianna Weist

"Treat yourself like someone you love."

- Glennon Doyle

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

- Brené Brown

"Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

- Alexandra Elle

"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

"Until you love yourself, you will never know who you really are and you won’t know what you’re really capable of."

- Louise Hay

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

- Brianna Wiest

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

- Christian D. Larson

"Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won’t accept."

- Anna Taylor

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

- Brené Brown

"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

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

- Nayyirah Waheed

"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

"Love yourself enough to create an environment in your life that is conducive to the nourishment of your personal growth. Allow yourself to let go of the people, thoughts, and situations that poison your well-being. Cultivate a vibrant surrounding and commit yourself to making choices that will help you release the greatest expression of your unique beauty and purpose."

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Beyoncé

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

- Louise L. Hay

"Learn to love yourself enough to be happy in your own company, not needing to use anyone as an escape."

- Samantha Camargo

"The worst outcome in this world is not having self esteem. If you don’t love yourself, who will?"

- Naval Ravikant

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

- Alison Malee

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

- C. JoyBell C.

"Be vulnerable. Let yourself be deeply seen, love with your whole heart, practice gratitude and joy… be able to say ‘I am thankful to feel this vulnerable because it means I am alive,’ and believe ‘I am enough.’ You are worthy of love and belonging."

- Brene Brown

"Love yourself. Be clear on how you want to be treated. Know your worth. Always."

- Maryam Hasnaa

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

- Michelle Obama

"You are good enough. You do deserve good things. You are smart enough. You are worthy of love and respect."

- Lorri Faye

"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

"Confidence isn’t thinking you are better than anyone else; it’s realizing that you have no reason to compare yourself to anyone else."

- Maryam Hasnaa

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

- Yung Pueblo

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

- Les Brown

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

- Charlotte Brontë

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

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

- Alison Malee

"Self love, self respect, self worth… there is a reason they all start with ‘self’. You can’t find them in anyone else."

- Dr. Anne Brown

"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 Bündchen

"Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others."

- Wilfred Peterson

"Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives."

- Louise L. Hay

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

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

- Alexandra Elle

"I must be myself. I cannot break myself any longer for you, or you. If you can love me for what I am, we shall be the happier. If you cannot, I will still seek to deserve that you should."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Dolly Parton

"We accept the love we think we deserve."

- Stephen Chbosky

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

- Lalah Delia

"You change the world by being yourself."

- Yoko Ono

"The universe took its time on you."

- Rupi Kaur

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

- Queen Latifah

"All love begins with the love within."

- Vironika Tugaleva

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."

- Oprah Winfrey

"If you wish to be loved, love."

- Hecaton of Rhodes

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

- Rupi Kaur

"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

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

- Madonna

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

- Deborah Day

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

- Sophia Loren

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

- Kurt Cobain

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

- Michelle Obama

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

- Morgan Harper Nichols

"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

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Don Miguel Ruiz

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

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Suzy Kassem

"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

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

- Toni Morrison

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

- Audrey Hepburn

"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

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

- Steve Maraboli

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

- Bianca Sparacino

"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

"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

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

- Laverne Cox

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

- Piglet

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

- Kim Guerra

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

- Dwayne Johnson

"Embrace the glorious mess that you are."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

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

- Jamie Lee Curtis

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

- Goldie Hawn

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

- Coco Chanel

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

- Lizzo

"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

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

- Chelsie Diane

"It is where everything that is not love and worship for the divine beings that we are – falls away. It is is peeking into the strange universe that each one of us holds and saying, “Yes. I see you, you divine thing. You beautiful, sacred universe.” When you have a group of people who call you into remembering there is no other way to move through space. You begin to believe again (or more strongly) in the power of love and joy and community and how pain is a tool for individual transformation. That everything in your beautiful life is there to help you remember."

- Lindsay Douglas

"Sometimes our best form of self-love is where we do things when no one is watching, no one is noticing, and it’s the holy act that we get to whisper to ourselves each time we come to stand in front of the mirror and relearn how to adore ourselves in a way only true lovers do, in whispers, in consecrated corners, under sheets, behind closed doors, and all the private places where we get to be the most seen.Then when you come out, you’re absolutely glowing, and it’s this sacred secret between you and yourself that your darling is your own damn beautiful lover. Go love her, just like that."

- Lumalia

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

- Sophia Bush

"I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side."

- Dr. Maya Angelou

"As I began to love myself I found that [anguish] and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know this is ‘authenticity.’"

- Charlie Chaplin

"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option."

- Mark Twain

"Comparison is an act of violence against the self."

- Iyanla Vanzant

"Other people’s opinion of you, whether it’s good or bad, should not be grounds in which you base your self worth. Your value is inherent within you. What matters the most is whether you know you are worthy."

- Ash Alves

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It is only when you have mastered the art of [loving yourself] that you can truly love others. It is only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the heart of others."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Coco Chanel

"In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you."

- Andrea Dykstra

"You have to choose yourself, even when others refuse to."

- R. H. Sin

"If you’re searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror."

- Roman Price

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

- Beyonce

"Compassion for yourself is fundamental, since if you don’t care how you feel and want to do something about it, it’s hard to make an effort to become happier and more resilient. Compassion is both soft and muscular. For example, studies show that when people feel compassion, motor planning areas in the brain begin preparing for action."

- Rick Hanson

"The Golden Rule is a two-way street: we should do unto ourselves as we do unto others."

- Rick Hanson

"You get the benefits of both giving and receiving compassion when you offer it to yourself."

- Rick Hanson

"Well-being comes from meeting our needs, not denying them."

- Rick Hanson

"You should love others in the same measure as you love yourself—as if your neighbor were your very self."

- Lawrence G. Lovasick

"Compassion for self and others may very well be the answer to healing our hurt, hate-filled world."

- Laura Jack

"Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves."

- Pema Chodron

"Unless we love and treat ourselves well, we are ill-equipped to do the same for others."

- Angela C. Santomero

"We can truly love one another once we love who we are."

- Angela C. Santomero

"To accept oneself completely is to know the truest kind of self-love."

- Anonymous

"When you love yourself, there’s no such thing as low self esteem. Establish true self esteem to experience the best kind of love with yourself."

- Anonymous

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

- Buddha

"Your soul will never be fully nourished by anyone’s love but your own."

- Dominee

"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."

- Jean Shinoda Bolen

"The most powerful relationship you will ever have, is the relationship with yourself."

- Steve Maraboli

"The only person I need to compare myself to is my yesterday self."

- Allison Sue

"Self care is how you take your power back."

- Lalah Delia

"Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye."

- Helen Keller

"Don’t move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move."

- Osho

"When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy."

- Kim McMillen

"Life is too short to spend another day at war with yourself."

- Rita Ghatourey

"I will never apologize for being me, but I will apologize for the times that I am not."

- Michael Carini

"Know your worth. You must find the courage to leave the table if respect is no longer being served."

- Tene Edwards

"All relationships are a reflection of your relationship with yourself."

- Deepak Chopra

"I don’t fit into any stereotypes and I like myself that way."

- C. Joybell

"I am, indeed, a king because I know how to rule myself."

- Pietro Aretino

"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

"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

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

- Beyoncé

"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

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

- Marcus Garvey

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

- Rumi

"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."

- André Gide

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

- Christian Nestell Bovee

"Fall in love with yourself, and the world will see how beautiful you truly are."

- Atticus

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

- Brené Brown

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

- Pema Chödrön

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Phillip Shepherd

"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

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

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

- Earl Nightingale

"Loving-kindness is a wellspring of peace and happiness that you can offer to others. But in order to do that, you must first have love and kindness for yourself."

- James R. Doty, M.D

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

- Hafiz of Shiraz

"She believed she could, so she did."

- R. S. Grey

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

- Dr. Chelsea Page

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

- Elizabeth Gilbert

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

- Brian Tracy

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

- Kathryn Budig

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

- Gautama Buddha

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

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Eckhart Tolle

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

- Anne Frank

"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

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

- Gabrielle Bernstein

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

- Deepak Chopra

"Change is inevitable, but growth is optional."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Alan Watts

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- N.R. Narayana Murthy

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

- Kristin Kreuk

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Count your blessings, not your troubles."

- Roy T. Bennett

"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

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

- Anthony Robbins

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

- Paulo Coelho

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

- Pablo Picasso

"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

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

- Gautama Buddha

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

- Mark Twain

"Creativity takes courage."

- Henri Matisse

"Creativity is intelligence having fun."

- Albert Einstein

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

- Jon Kabat-Zinn

"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

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

- Elizabeth Edwards

"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

"It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else’s job to take care of me but me."

- Beyoncé

"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

"Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others."

- Brené Brown

"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

"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

"Loving yourself isn’t vanity; it’s sanity."

- Katrina Mayer

"The relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have."

- Jane Travis

"You’re not your mistakes; they are what you did, not who you are."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

"Self-love isn’t selfish; it’s self-preservation."

- Audre Lorde

"Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we’ll ever do."

- Brené Brown

"If you have the ability to love, love yourself first."

- Charles Bukowski

"True self-care is not bath salts and chocolate cake, it’s making the choice to build a life you don’t need to escape from."

- Brianna Wiest

"You are not your mistakes. They are what you did. Not who you are."

- Lisa Lieberman-Wang

"Accepting yourself only as long as you look a certain way isn’t self love, it’s self destruction."

- Laci Green

"The self-love needed for self-care [is] missing. Academicians use terms like self-esteem, self-worth, self-support, self-care, but rarely self-love. That is left to the spiritual community. People don’t realize that taking care of their own needs; eating, drinking, brushing their teeth, showering, wearing clean clothes, going to work are all acts of self-love."

- Angela C. Santomero

"Self-love is necessary for a functional and successful life"

- Angela C. Santomero

"Self-kindness is self-empathy. And even when I talk to myself like someone I love and it feels weird, it works."

- Brene Brown

"In the entire universe, you play such a huge role. The self esteem and love you have for yourself is the only gift you need to give. It isn’t a selfish act to love yourself hard. Only you can love yourself to the fullest because you understand why every aspect of your life has happened. A self love deficit isn’t what will bring you joy. The wrong mental attitude can be devastating in the world. If you have true self esteem and high self love you can share that love with the world around you. To love oneself is to love the world and a person learns that only when they show themselves the kindness they deserve."

- Anonymous

"You carry so much love in your heart. Give some to yourself."

- R.Z.

"Love yourself so much that when someone treats you wrong, you recognize it."

- Rena Rose

"I love the person I’ve become because I fought to become her."

- Kaci Diane

"Either they like you or they don’t. Never try to convince somebody of your worth. If a person doesn’t appreciate you, they don’t deserve you. Respect yourself and be with people who truly value ‘you.’"

- Brigitte Nicole

"The entire universe deserve your love. You also deserve to experience it back."

- Anonymous

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

- Lalah Delia

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

- Hafez

"If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good."

- Dr. Maya Angelou

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

- Toni Morrison

"Unconditional self love is all the really matters in life. It’s where real life begins."

- Anonymous

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

- David G. Allen

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

- Joyce Meyer

"When your world moves too fast and you lose yourself in the chaos, introduce yourself to each color of the sunset. Reacquaint yourself with the earth beneath your feet. Thank the air that surrounds you with every breath you take. Find yourself in the appreciation of life."

- Christy Ann Martine

"Be the love you never received."

- Rune Lazuli

"Seek to be whole, not perfect."

- Oprah

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

- Carl Gustav Jung

"First, you must realize you’re homesick for all the lives you’re not living. Then, you must commit to the road and the rising loneliness. To the sincere thrill of coming apart. Divorce yourself from routine and control. Instead, find a desert and fall in. Take the trail that promises a view. Get lost. Break your toes. Bruise your knees. Keep going. Watch a purple meadow quiver. Get still. Pet trail dogs. Buy the hat. Run out of gas. Befriend strangers. Knight yourself every morning for your newborn courage. Give grief her own lullaby. Drink whiskey beside a hundred-year-old cactus. Honor everything. Pray to something unnameable. Fall for someone impractical. Reacquaint yourself with desire and all her slender hands. Bear beauty for as long as you are able, and if you spot a sunning warbler glowing like a prism, remind yourself – joy is not a trick."

- J. Sullivan

"Breathe darling, this is just a chapter. It’s not your whole story."

- S.C. Laurie

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

- William Shakespeare

"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

"Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it."

- M. Scott Peck

"Think thoughts that make you feel good, make choices that make you feel good, and take actions that make you feel good."

- Cheryl Richardson

"To love is to be vulnerable."

- Brene Brown

"The only way out is through."

- Robert Frost

"The wound is the place where the light enters you."

- Rumi

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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

- Denice Frohman

"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it."

- Tori Amos

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

- Akshay Dubey

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

- Henry James

"Flowers grow back even after the harshest winters, you will too."

- Jennae Cecilia

"All the filth in your mind that tells you that you aren’t worthy or good enough is the reason why you’re not experiencing self love in a healthy sense."

- Anonymous

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

- Andie MacDowell

"If you are heartbroken, still leave your heart open, so pain can find an exit."

- Alexandra Vasiliu

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

- Ain Eineziz

"May you choose yourself, always!"

- Malebo Sephodi

"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

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

- Thomas Edison

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Taraji P. Henson

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

- Hailee Steinfeld

"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

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

- Michelle Obama

"Nothing else falls into line when you’re cold to your own person. Everything else falls into line when you open your heart to yourself and stay true to your own person."

- Anonymous

"I am thankful for all of those who said no to me. It’s because of them I’m doing it myself."

- Albert Einstein

"Be loud about the things that are important to you."

- Karen Walrond

"Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you."

- Anne Lamott

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself."

- Walt Whitman

"Start healing your heart and you will look beautiful."

- Alexandra Vasiliu

"[Love yourself more], you’ll never regret it."

- Ann Marie Molina

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

- Tina Fey

"You ain’t gotta like me. I like me."

- Kanye West

"Keep watering yourself. You’re growing."

- E.Russell

"Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are."

- Malcolm S. Forbes

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

- Jasmine Warga

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

- Sally Field

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

- Haruki Murakami

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

- Michael Altshuler

"Beauty comes from a life well lived"

- Jennifer Garner

"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 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

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

- Confucius

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

- M. Scott Peck

"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."

- Abraham Lincoln

"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

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

- Lena Dunham

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

- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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

- Sylvia Plath

"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

"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 lavishiness, deep deep in adoration all mutually reciprocated in a cycle of overflow."

- Lumalia

"If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person."

- Fred Rodgers

"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

"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

"This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it."

- Voltaire

"Sometimes you will need people to support you and they won’t be available, not because they don’t care but because they’re the main character of their own life, not just the supporting character in yours."

- kesiawrites

"Plant hope in your heart’s wounds."

- Alexandra Vasiliu

"All lights turned off can be turned on."

- Noah Kahan

"Give yourself the love you’re willing to give to others."

- Mahin Ismail

"Every exit is an entrance to someplace else."

- Patti LaBelle

"Don’t look for the person you want to spend the rest of your life with, become the person you want to spend the rest of your life with."

- Neil Strauss

"Love. Laugh. And live it up!"

- Christie Brinkley

"Be kind to the person you are now."

- iambrilliyant

"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

"Whatever purifies you is the right path."

- Rumi

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

"Talk to yourself like someone you love."

"Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do."

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

"Gratitude turns what we have into enough."

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

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

"A strong woman is one who feels deeply and loves fiercely. Her tears flow just as abundantly as her laughter."

"A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for everyone else."

"You are enough, just as you are."

"Just be yourself. Let people see the real, imperfect, flawed, quirky, weird, beautiful, and magical person that you are."

"Know your worth. Don’t ask for it. State it once and never accept anything less."

- Unknown

"We are all born so beautiful the greatest tragedy is being convinced we are not."

- Unknown

"Shout out to all the people who haven’t felt okay recently, but are getting up every day and refusing to quit. Stay strong."

- Unknown

"Don’t go back to less just because you’re too impatient to wait for better."

- Unknown

"Don’t let the bad days make you think you have a bad life."

- Unknown

"There are no prerequisites to worthiness. You are born worthy."

"Flowers need time to bloom. So do you."

- Unknown

"Self confidence is a super power. Once you start to believe in yourself, magic starts happening."

- Unknown

"I know what I bring to the table… so trust me when I say I’m not afraid to eat alone."

- Unknown

"Don’t compare your life to others, there’s no comparison between the sun and the moon, they both shine when it’s their time."

- Unknown

"I am unapologetically myself."

- Unknown

"I honor the progress I have made, no matter how small."

"I release negative thoughts and welcome positivity into my life."

"I am proud of my journey and excited for what’s to come."

"I am becoming the best version of myself, one day at a time."

"Don’t let your mind bully your body."

"You cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself."

"Be your own reason to smile."

"The way you speak to yourself matters."

"Your vibe attracts your tribe, so love yourself first."

"When you love yourself, you glow from within."

"Healing comes in waves, and maybe today the wave hits hard. But you’ll keep swimming."

"Healing begins with the moment you accept what is."

"You don’t have to have it all figured out to start healing."

"Every day is a chance to begin again."

"Healing doesn’t mean forgetting; it means choosing peace over pain."

"Trust the process of healing. It takes time, but it’s worth it."

"Your pain is valid, but it doesn’t define you."

"Self-love is the greatest middle finger of all time."

"You owe yourself the love that you so freely give to others."

"To do: stop being so hard on myself."

- Unknown

"Fall in love with taking care of yourself: mind, body, and soul."

"It’s okay to be a glowstick; sometimes we need to break before we shine."

"Healing is not linear. It’s okay to have good days and bad days."

"Take a deep breath and remember: you’ve survived 100% of your worst days so far."

"Your scars are a testament to your strength."

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

"Be gentle with yourself; you’re doing the best you can."

"Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life."

"I am worthy of love, kindness, and compassion."