15 Quotes That Will Inspire People to Learn to Love Themselves
It’s natural to love people but to love ourselves is hard. At least, that is what most of us think. Only when we accept ourselves as we are and learn to cherish our essence will we be capable of finding peace of mind.
We can love people even more when we learn how to love ourselves. However, we should know that loving ourselves does not mean pursuing our careers or going after our goals.
There is a reason why when you are on a plane there are instructions to place your mask first in case of emergency. When you take care of yourself, you can take care of others.
If you want to succeed in life, you must believe that you deserve to be. You have to learn how to love and appreciate yourself, and in this article, we offer you ten quotes that will serve as an inspiration to you.
“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”
– Lucille Ball
“Friendship with one’s self is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.”
– Maya Angelou
“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.”
– Rumi
“When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“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 will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“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
“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
– Howard Washington Thurman
“As we let our light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.”
– Marianne Williamson
“You, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”
– Buddha
“A man cannot be comfortable without his approval.”
– Mark Twain
“A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.”
– Andrew Mathews
“You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
– Louise L. Hay
“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”
– Lao-Tzu
