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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
Self-respect, self-worth, and self-love, all start with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value.
Rob Liano
The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.
Steve Maraboli
Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won't accept.
Anna Taylor
You can't pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first.
Unknown
The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.
Robert Hand
The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.
Diane Von Furstenberg
When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.
Paulo Coelho
Love is not about possession. Love is about appreciation.
Osho
You can't force someone to respect you, but you can refuse to be disrespected.
Unknown
Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.
Eleanor Brown
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
Paulo Coelho
Love is not what you say. Love is what you do.
Unknown
If you don't love yourself, nobody else is going to love you.
Sharon Needles
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
You are enough just as you are.
Meghan Markle
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.
Parker Palmer
You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
Rumi
Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life.
Steve Jobs
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde
The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
Coco Chanel
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
Harvey Fierstein
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs
I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
Rita Mae Brown
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.
William Shakespeare
Love yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.
Robert Tew
You don't have to be a part of toxic relationships. You are allowed to walk away from people who hurt you. You are allowed to be angry and selfish and unforgiving. You don't owe anyone an explanation for taking care of yourself.
Unknown
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts
You can't change someone who doesn't see an issue in their actions.
Unknown
You are not a doormat. You are not a punching bag. You are not a toy. You are a human being deserving of love, respect, and kindness.
Unknown
Self-respect is a question of recognizing that anything worth having has a price.
Joan Didion
Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.
John Herschel
Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.
Les Brown
Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
The most powerful words we can say to ourselves are 'I choose' and 'I am worth it'.
Mandy Hale
You are allowed to say 'no' to anyone who makes you feel uncomfortable.
Sonya Parker
You have to learn to say no without feeling guilty. Setting boundaries is healthy. You need to learn to respect and take care of yourself.
Unknown
You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm.
Unknown
You don't have to be a part of everything. You can just be a part of what's important.
Unknown
Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.
Christopher Germer
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
William Shakespeare
If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
Charles Bukowski
You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.
Ram Dass
Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
Unknown
When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Maya Angelou
If you love yourself, you won't tolerate disrespect.
Unknown
Love is not supposed to hurt. If it does, then it is absolutely not love.
Unknown
Love is not a license for disrespect.
Unknown
Love is not about ignoring red flags. It's about facing them together.
Unknown
Love is not about settling for less than you deserve.
Unknown
Love is not about sacrificing your self-respect.
Unknown
Never settle for less than you deserve, because once you start to settle, you always will.
Unknown
You are worthy of the love you keep trying to give everyone else.
Unknown
You deserve someone who loves you with every single beat of his heart, someone who thinks about you constantly, someone who spends every minute of every day just wondering what you're doing, where you are, who you're with, and if you're OK.
Cecelia Ahern
You are not a backup plan. You are worth more than someone's second choice.
Unknown
You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress, simultaneously.
Sophia Bush
You are deserving of a love that is pure and true, not just a love that settles for you.
Unknown
You are enough just as you are. If someone cannot see that, then they are not meant to be in your life.
Unknown
Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, and be good to yourself, because without you, the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
Leo F. Buscaglia
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
Carl Jung
You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won't discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself.
Geneen Roth
The only way to love yourself is to understand who you really are, to have a clear perception of your own personality.
Mehmet Murat Ildan
You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.
Sophia Bush
The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
You are imperfect, you are wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.
Brené Brown
Self-love, self-respect, self-worth: There’s a reason they all start with ‘self.’ You can’t find them in anyone else.
Unknown
You are not an option, a choice or a soft place to land after a long battle. You were meant to be the one. If you can wrap yourself around the idea that you are something incredible, then you will stop excusing behavior that rapes your very soul. You were never meant to teach someone to love you. You were meant to be loved.
Shannon L. Alder
Love yourself first, because that's who you'll be spending the rest of your life with.
Unknown
Intuition is the whisper of the soul.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
The more you trust your intuition, the more empowered you become, the stronger you become, and the happier you become.
Gisele Bundchen
Your intuition is the most honest friend that you will ever have.
Isabel Allende
Intuition is seeing with the soul.
Dean Koontz
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business - everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.
David Lynch
Intuition is a sense of knowing how to act spontaneously, without needing to know why.
Sylvia Clare
Intuition is a spiritual GPS that will always guide you in the right direction.
Unknown
Intuition is the highest form of intelligence, transcending all individual abilities and skills.
Sylvia Clare
Surround yourself with people who believe in your dreams, encourage your ideas, support your ambitions, and bring out the best in you.
Roy T. Bennett
The people you surround yourself with influence your behaviors, so choose friends who have healthy habits.
Dan Buettner
Surround yourself with positive people who will support you when it rains, not just when it shines.
Unknown
Surround yourself with people who have dreams, desire, and ambition; they'll help you push for and realize your own.
Unknown
Surround yourself with people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey
Surround yourself with people who make you hungry for life, touch your heart, and nourish your soul.
Unknown
Surround yourself with people who make you better.
Unknown
Surround yourself with people who are positive and who support your growth.
Unknown
Surround yourself with people who are going to take you higher.
Joel Osteen
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