Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
Healthy striving is self-focused: 'How can I improve?' Perfectionism is other-focused: 'What will they think?'
A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.
We don’t realise that, somewhere within us all, there does exist a supreme self who is eternally at peace.
Total self-love and acceptance is the only foundation for happiness and the love of others.
I'm safe inside this container called me.
You won’t be happy, whatever you do, unless you’re comfortable with your own conscience.
Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
We cannot be a source of strength unless we nurture our own strength. I believe that not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but that ultimately they are indistinguishable.
The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.
Comparison is an act of violence against the self.
She was perhaps too young to realise that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.