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33 Quotes That Prove Loving Yourself Isn't Selfish

If you want to change the way others treat you, you must first change the way you treat yourself. 
Kirsten Corley
August 27, 2016
“The minute you learn to love yourself, you would not want to be anybody else.”
— Rihanna, From Her Speech At The 2016 BET Awards
Tagged: Self love, Inspirational, Confidence, Girl Power, Body Positive, Finding Yourself, Self Discovery
“If you're going to wear a dress like that you need to wear it with confidence. You need to fill it out mentally as well as physically.”
— Jojo Moyes, Me Before You
Tagged: Love, Confidence, Self-Love, beauty
“Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are.”
— Stephanie Lahart, Overcoming Life's Obstacles: Enlighten-Encourage-Empower
Tagged: Hard Work, Dreams, Self-Love
“An amazing thing happens when you stop seeking approval and validation: You find it. People are naturally drawn like magnets to those who know who they are and cannot be shaken.”
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman
Tagged: Approval, Validation, Self-Love, Self-Acceptance, Independence
“You have to drown out those little voices in your head telling you that you can’t do anything spectacular, because you’ll fail, or because you’re simply not good enough, and what on earth makes you think that you have what it takes? Pay no attention to this. Hear those voices and make it your mission to knock them flat out with your brilliance.”
— Shani Jayawardena, You Deserve To Love Yourself Unapologetically
Tagged: Loving Yourself, strength, Confidence, Self-Love
“Hopefully as you get older, you start to learn how to live with your demon. It’s hard at first. Some people give their demon so much room that there is no space in their head or bed for love. They feed their demon and it gets really strong and then it makes them stay in abusive relationships or starve their beautiful bodies. But sometimes, you get a little older and get a little bored of the demon. Through good therapy and friends and self-love you can practice treating the demon like a hacky, annoying cousin. Maybe a day even comes when you are getting dressed for a fancy event and it whispers, ‘You aren’t pretty,’ and you go, ‘I know, I know, now let me find my earrings.’ Sometimes you say, ‘Demon, I promise you I will let you remind me of my ugliness, but right now I am having hot sex so I will check in later.”
— Amy Poehler, Yes Please
Tagged: Self-Love, Happiness, Age, Youth, beauty, Self-Acceptance, Womanhood
“When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.”
— Lao Tzu, A quote by Lao Tzu
Tagged: mindfulness, Understanding, Outlooks, Positivity, Self love
“When you don’t value yourself, you will accept and even welcome people who don’t value you into your life.”
— Sabrina Alexis, Everything You Need To Know If You Want Love That Lasts
Tagged: Value Yourself, Self-Love, Your Value, Dating
“I am, for some reason, actually happy with who I am and the muscle, the bones, and the flub that exist beneath these clothes. I don’t need to lose 20 lbs. to be attractive. I don’t need to starve myself of the good things of life to be healthy. And, I don’t need to chase someone else’s ideal of what I should be looking like.”
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Complete First Year
Tagged: Weight, Self-Love, beauty
“Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable”
— M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth
Tagged: People, Love, Self-Love, Extroversion
“I hope that you do not let the world condemn you for being too loud, too expressive, too soft; that you do not let it convince you to be perfect instead of real. I truly hope that you celebrate the fact that you are not for everyone, that you are not impressing the kinds of people who were built on the foundations of a sad world. If there is anything you do, please, let yourself rejoice in the fact that you do not fit in, that you think differently, because there is a chaos that laughs inside of you and it is going to change lives. It is going to make even the cynics believe again. It is going to grow love from thorn and glass.”
— Bianca Sparacino, You Are Not For Everyone
Tagged: Soft, unique, Self love, Positivity, Optimism, Hope
“You can't love yourself at the expense of someone else”
— Miranda Lambert, Love Is Looking For You
Tagged: Love, Self-Love
“I know how you feel when you're alone lying on your bed, looking at your phone as if it's meant to bring you peace from all the demons tugging at your head. You ask yourself 'who in the world will love me? And you should always remember how no one will not ever, unless you love yourself.”
— R.M Drake, Black Butterfly
Tagged: Don't Give Up, Keep Trying, Life And Death, Love, You Matter
“The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.”
— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free: Anniversary Edition
Tagged: Don't Go Back, Self-Love
“When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits - anything that kept me small.

My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.”
— Kim McMillen, When I Loved Myself Enough
Tagged: Don't Go Back, love myself, Self-Love
“If you want to change the way others treat you, you should first change the way you treat yourself.”
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi
Tagged: Self-Respect, Self-Love, Love Yourself
“I don’t have perfect teeth. I’m not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn’t want to change anything.”
— Emma Watson, Emma Watson Official Website
Tagged: Self Worth, Self love, Perfect, Change
“You wake up with a list of all the people you'd rather be. But you're already on everyone else's list.”
— Iain S. Thomas, I Wrote This For You
Tagged: Love, Self-Love, beauty
“You are enough. You’ve ALWAYS been more than enough, but to the wrong people you’ll always be inadequate.”
— Sade Andria Zabala, Open Letter To The Ones Who Are “Never Good Enough”
Tagged: Good Enough, Enough, Self love, Self Worth, Unrequited Love, Love Yourself, Never Good Enough, Not Good Enough, Perspective
“It's really comfortable when you start loving yourself enough. You stop settling for less. You stop forcing yourself to do something you don't want to. You stop being with someone who makes you feel bad. You stop comparing yourself to anyone or anything around. You become a whole kingdom yourself.”
— Shahd El Hadidy, Roadtrip
Tagged: Self-Love, Self Esteem
“it was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole.”
— Rupi Kaur, milk and honey
Tagged: Home, Looking For Love, Self love
“And the way you feel about your body, the way that, ultimately, you treat your body,”
— Khloé Kardashian, Strong Looks Better Naked
Tagged: Health, Fitness, Self love
“Perhaps loving something is the only starting place there is for making your life your own.”
— Alice Koller, An Unknown Woman
Tagged: Loving, Life, Self love
“Those who do not feel love inside simply cannot give any love. That is why self-love is so central for a fulfilling life and for all kinds of relationships.”
— Alexander Janzer, True Self-Love: Heal the old wounds and the self-love will come on its own!
Tagged: Self love, Life, How To Live A Fulfilling Life
“In order to change my reality, or my future, I need to change the way I think.”
— Aleksandra Zaric, 365 Daily Affirmations
Tagged: Self love, Change The Way You Think, Thoughts Become Our Lives
“Practicing self-love means learning how to trust ourselves, to treat ourselves with respect, and to be kind and affectionate toward ourselves.”
— Brené Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
Tagged: Self-Love, Self-Esteem
“Just try on the mind of someone who loves themselves.”
— 21 Day Challenges, Self-Love: The 21-Day Self-Love Challenge - Learn how to love yourself unconditionally, cultivate self-worth, self-compassion and self-confidence
Tagged: Self love
“Self love is not narcissism.”
— Daphne Rose Kingma, Loving Yourself: Four Steps to a Happier You
Tagged: Self love, Loving On, Loving Yourself
“When we don't know how to love ourselves...we don't know how to treat others.”
— Daphne Rose Kingma, Loving Yourself: Four Steps to a Happier You
Tagged: Self love, Love, Relationship With Self
“Through self criticism you look at yourself and find yourself unacceptable not worthy of your own love.”
— Daphne Rose Kingma, Loving Yourself: Four Steps to a Happier You
Tagged: Self love, Loving Yourself, Love