Love and appreciate yourself – you’re all you have.
Know Yourself
- Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. ~ Carl Jung
- You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are. ~ Yogi Bhajan
- 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
- What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Everything worth having costs something, and the price of true love is self-knowledge.
- Becoming acquainted with yourself is a price well worth paying for the love that will really address your needs. ~ Daphne Rose Kingma
- My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another. ~ Shakti Gawain
- People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is light from within. ~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Be True to Yourself
- Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.
- Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own. ~ Carl Jung
- The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else. ~ E. E. Cummings
- Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself. ~ Anais Nin
- 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
Respect Yourself
- The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself ~ Steve Maraboli
- The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore. ~ C. JoyBell
- Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. ~ William James
- It ain’t what they call you, it’s what you answer to. ~ W.C. Fields
Value Yourself
- Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. ~ Malcolm S. Forbes
- Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence. ~ Gary Zukav
- The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. ~ William James
Accept Yourself
- To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
- Our entire life … consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are. ~ Jean Anouih
- I’ve finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be? ~ Golden Hawn
- Your problem is you’re … too busy holding onto your unworthiness. ~ Ram Dass
- To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections. ~ Sandra Bierig
- Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life. ~ Ellen Sue Stern
Love Yourself
- You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.
- You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection. ~ Buddha
- You can’t build joy on a feeling of self-loathing. ~ Ram Dass
- It’s not your job to like me…it’s MINE! ~ Byron Katie
- 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, thirteenth century Sufi poet
- Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives. ~ Louise L. Hay
- A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror. ~ Ken Keyes
- Loving yourself…does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honoured guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion. ~ Margo Anand
- If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself. ~ Barbara De Angelis
- Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting. ~ William Shakespeare
- 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
- I celebrate myself, and sing myself. ~ Walt Whitman
- Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home. ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
- I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now. ~ Louise Hay
- Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it ~ Thaddeus Golas
Expand Yourself
- There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. ~ Hindu Proverb
- It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~ George Eliott
- Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. ~ Veronica A. Shoffstall
- Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness. ~ Jean Vanier
- 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
- It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. ~ Edmund Hillary (first man to climb Mt. Everest).