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If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.
Oct 2, 2025
A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.
Even the humblest mammal's strong sexual, parental, and social instincts give rise to 'do unto others as yourself' and 'love thy neighbor as thyself'.
When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.
If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.
Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.
Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.
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.
People often say that 'beauty is in the eye of the beholder,' and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.
I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.
You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are.
Do you know how powerful you are?
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.
Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person.
Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.
We realized we weren't really using Odeo, we weren't investing our own time creating podcasts. We were building a tool that was a great idea for some other people. That's a dangerous way to go because if you don't actually use it yourself and love it, then you aren't going to be as fully invested in it from the start. That's what leads you to doing side projects.
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, so is ugliness.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, get it out with Optrex.
You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
The beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
Love advice is like life advice, so there are so many elements of that. I think humor, patience, admiration are really important love elements. Love and respect. You have to respect the person that you're going to love, and you have to be confident in yourself and love yourself.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
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.
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.
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
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.
Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.
You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim.
About all you can do in life is be who you are.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
People will never forget how you made them feel.
Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.
We need to love ourselves first in All our glory and imperfections
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love.
There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.