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.
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
The best way to forget ones self is to look at the world with attention and love.
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and bring joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
Our first and last love is... self-love.
Don't worry about growing older or pleasing others. Please yourself.
Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
Monkeys are superior to men in this: when a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
Do not wish to be anything except what you are.
He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.
If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves.
There is a voice inside which speaks and says: This is the real me!
Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the notice of others.
Self-love depressed becomes self-loathing.
Be that self which one truly is.
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
— Lao-Tzu
Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company -- a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.
People who do not love themselves can adore others, because adoration is making someone else big and ourselves small. They can desire others, because desire comes out of a sense of inner incompleteness, which demands to be filled. But they can not love others, because love is an affirmation of the living growing being in all of us. If you don't have it, you can't give it.
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.
I am a big believer in the mirror test. All that matters is if you can look in the mirror and honestly tell the person you see there, that you've done your best.
It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Learn what you are and be such.
— Pindar
Self-love seems so often unrequited.
Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.
Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.
When you feel good about yourself, others will feel good about you, too.
Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.
If only I had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.
Know the self to be sitting in the chariot, the body to be the chariot, the intellect the charioteer, and the mind the reins.
Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.
— Voltaire
It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.
— Voltaire
There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.
I dote on myself, there is that lot of me and all so luscious.
Practice being at home with yourself, as you step out to be with others.
The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.