In a world that often emphasizes external validation, cultivating self-love becomes an essential practice for maintaining mental and emotional well-being. The journey to self-love is a personal and transformative one, requiring mindfulness, compassion, and a commitment to self-care.
To embark on this empowering voyage, here are some easy ways to practice loving oneself as well as a collection of 64 beautiful and inspiring quotes about self-love. Celebrate you!
8 Easy Ways to Practice Self-Love
- Mindful Reflection – Take a few moments each day to reflect on your thoughts and emotions. Acknowledge and validate your feelings without judgment.
- Gratitude Journaling – Cultivate a habit of noting down things you are grateful for. This simple act can shift your focus towards positivity and self-appreciation.
- Set Boundaries – Learn to say no when necessary. Establishing healthy boundaries is a form of self-respect and an important aspect of self-love.
- Nourish Your Body – Pay attention to your physical well-being. Eat nutritious foods, stay hydrated, and engage in regular exercise to support a healthy body and mind.
- Self-Compassion – Treat yourself with the same kindness and understanding you would offer to a friend. Embrace your imperfections and forgive yourself for mistakes.
- Mindful Breathing – Practice deep and intentional breathing. This simple technique can help reduce stress and promote a sense of calm and self-awareness.
- Pursue Your Passions – Dedicate time to activities that bring you joy and fulfillment. Engaging in your passions fosters a positive relationship with yourself.
- Disconnect and Recharge – Unplug from technology regularly to give your mind a break. Use this time to connect with yourself and engage in activities that bring peace and relaxation.
64 Quotes About Self-Love
“Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.”
– Lucille Ball
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.”
– Robert Holden
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
– Buddha
“Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself.”
– Unknown
“Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It’s sanity.”
– Katrina Mayer
“The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.”
– Steve Maraboli
“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
“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
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
– Sylvia Plath
“Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.”
– M. Scott Peck
“I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.”
– Maya Angelou
“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, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.”
– William Shakespeare
“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
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
– Mark Twain
“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
“I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”
– Brené Brown
“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
“Find your purpose and fling your life out to it. Find a way or make one. Try with all your might. Self-made or never made.”
– Orison Swett Marden
“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
– Charles Bukowski
“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
“To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”
– Robert Morley
“The more you love yourself, the less nonsense you’ll tolerate.”
– Unknown
“Loving yourself starts with liking yourself, which starts with respecting yourself, which starts with thinking of yourself in positive ways.”
– Jerry Corsten
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
– Rumi
“Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it.”
– Anna Taylor
“You are your best thing.”
– Toni Morrison
“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
“One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”
– Shannon L. Alder
“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
“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
“It is interesting how often we can’t see all the ways in which we are being strong.”
– Lena Dunham
“Self-love is the source of all our other loves.”
– Pierre Corneille
“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
– Morrie Schwartz
“You are enough just as you are.”
– Meghan Markle
“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.
“You are a gift to the world. No one else can play your part.”
– Unknown
“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
– Robert Hand
“The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.”
– E.E Cummings
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
– J.K. Rowling
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“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
“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
“And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”
– Rumi
“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
“If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.”
– Marcus Garvey
“Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”
– Carl Gustav Jung
“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 sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.”
– Karl Lagerfeld.
“Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.”
– Tina Fey
“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.”
– Rupi Kaur
“Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can’t accept who you are.”
– Turcois Ominek
“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
“She remembered who she was and the game changed.”
– Lalah Delia
“My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.”
– Ruth Bader Ginsburg
“I am more than my scars.”
– Andrew Davidson
“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”
– Confucius
“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”
– Anne Lamott
“We can’t be so desperate for love that we forget where we can always find it; within.”
– Alexandra Elle
“Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone, to experience, appreciate and love yourself.”
– Robert Tew
We hope you were inspired by these self-love quotes. Embracing self-love is an empowering act, an affirmation that, in our own unique way, we are enough, worthy of love, and deserving of all the compassion and joy life has to offer.
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