Quotations about

Self-love

When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.

—Diane von Fürstenberg

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

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

—Lucille Ball

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

—Pierre Corneille

You need to learn to accept your flaws and forgive yourself.

—Susan Mallery in Two of a Kind

Funny how we think of romance as always involving two, when the romance of solitude can be ever so much more delicious and intense.

—Tom Robbins

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

—Louise L. Hay

Our first and last love is self-love.

—Christian Nestell Bovee

The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.

—Rita Mae Brown

If you don't love yourself, you'll always be chasing after people who don't love you either.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

—Fred Allen

Self-love, self-respect, self-approval, and self-worth do not equal self-ish.

—Mandy Hale in The Single Woman

You must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

A great deal of the chaos in the world occurs because people don't appreciate themselves.

—Chögyam Trungpa in Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior

Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.

—Thomas Aquinas