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35 Quotes That Prove The Greatest Love Story Starts With Yourself

Not only do self love and love of others go hand and hand but they are indistinguishable.
Kirsten Corley
October 12, 2016
“Wake up, decide to be confident, and then do it.”
— Kendra Syrdal, How To Be Confident
Tagged: Confidence, Self-Love, Self-Image, Self-Worth, Love Yourself, Put Yourself First
“Self-esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.”
— Nathaniel Branden, The Six Pillars Of Self Esteem
Tagged: Self-Esteem, Self-Respect, Self-Love, Confidence, Reputation, Self-Concept
“I’m still learning to love the parts of me that no one claps for.”
— Rudy Francisco, via twitter.com
Tagged: Acceptance, Self love, Growing Pains, Spilled Ink, Inspirational, Insecurities, Deep Thoughts
“The number one way to attract love is to make yourself into a vessel that can receive it.”
— Sabrina Alexis, Everything You Need To Know If You Want Love That Lasts
Tagged: Love, lasting love, inspiration, Relationships, Dating, Advice, romance, marriage & adult relationships, Marriage, Fitness, diet
“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
“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
“You can't love yourself at the expense of someone else”
— Miranda Lambert, Love Is Looking For You
Tagged: Love, Self-Love
“You are searching for treasure but the real treasure is yourself.”
— Rumi, Jalaluddin Rumi Quotes & Poems on Life, Love & Death
Tagged: Rumi, Spirtuality
“I fell in love but not with someone or something. I fell in love with life. For the first time, everything inspired me.”
— R.M Drake, Beautiful & Damned
Tagged: R.M Drake, Life And Love, Relationships, Self Worth, Love, inspiration
“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
“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
“Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it’s a process. It’s often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.”
— Emma Watson, Happy Birthday Emma Watson! Here Are 25 Of Her Most Powerful Quotes Every Woman Should Live By
Tagged: Finding Yourself, Self Worth, Relationships, Love
“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
“Part of trusting yourself is listening to yourself.”
— Lakeysha-Marie Green, How to Love Yourself: A guide to building your self-esteem when you don’t know where to start
Tagged: Listen To Yourself, Inner Love, Listen
“Our capacity to love another is directly proportional to our capacity to love ourselves.”
— Meggan Watterson, Lodro Rinzler, How to Love Yourself: Spiritual Advice for Modern Relationships
Tagged: Love Yourself, How To Love, Love
“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
“Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.’”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Tagged: Self Worth, Your Love For Yourself
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.”
— Lucille Ball, 53 Inspiring Self-Esteem and Self-Love Quotes
Tagged: Selfie Captions, Love Yourself, Selfie Captions
“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance”
— Oscar Wilde, 53 Inspiring Self-Esteem and Self-Love Quotes
Tagged: Selfie Captions, Love Yourself, Life-Long Romance, Selfie Captions
“I found I had to love myself, the way I wanted you to love me”
— Katy Perry, Katy Perry - Love Me (Lyric Video)
Tagged: Selfie Captions, love myself, Love, Self-Love, Selfie Captions
“Most women are starving to receive something from a man that they need to give to themselves.”
— Sherry Argov, Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman's Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationship
Tagged: Dating Advice, Relationship, Guy Advice, Why Men Love Bitches
“The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.”
— Victor Hugo, 50 Love Quotes That Express Exactly What 'I Love You' Really Means
Tagged: Relationship Goals, love quotes, In love
“People with high self-esteem know they are loved and lovable. They don’t need a guy to remind them every day.”
— Sabrina Alexis, Everything You Need To Know If You Want Love That Lasts
Tagged: Dating Advice, Relationship, Self love, confident
“The fact is, if you don’t feel good about yourself, nothing he does will ever be enough. If you don’t truly believe you’re worthy of love, you will never believe someone can love you.”
— Sabrina Alexis, Everything You Need To Know If You Want Love That Lasts
Tagged: Relationship Advice, Guy Advice, Self Worth
“Self-criticism and negative thoughts about yourself will attract people who reflect this back to you, showing critical behavior and can abuse you physically.”
— Hina Ahmad Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment Quotes
Tagged: Law OF Attraction, Relationships, Love, Life
“Realize that loving yourself is more important than having a line of boys ask you out on a date.”
— Sade Andria Zabala, WAR SONGS
Tagged: Self love, Dating, Relationship
“We're desperate to love. And because we're so desperate, we find ourselves falling for people who we realize aren’t worthy of our love.”
— Paul Hudson, How To Know When You Aren't Just Eager To Love, You're Ready To Love
Tagged: Dating, Relationships, Love
“Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are.”
— Beyoncé Knowles, 15 Most Inspiring Feminist Beyonce Quotes
Tagged: Love Yourself, Ladies, Single, Independence
“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.”
— Robert Holden, Think Happy: Instant Peptalks to Boost Positivity
Tagged: Self-Love, INFP, Relationships, Health
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
— Lucille Ball, Love, Lucy
Tagged: Single, Womanhood, Independence, Love Yourself