“You’ve been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try accepting yourself and see what happens.”— Louise Hay, amazon.com
“Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.”— Phil McGraw, goodreads.com
“Stay away from people who make you feel like you aren’t worth their time.”— Unknown, deeplifequotes.com
“This is something people refuse to admit to themselves: at a given point you can no longer do, but can only be and accept. And although that is something I learned a long time ago, I also learned that one can accept for oneself and not for others. This is vital, this is extremely vital. I could writ…”— Etty Hillesum, amazon.com
“I do dislike being a trouble maker and because of this, I have only mumbled my discontent. Yet, now I shout it. Now I am the healthiest, wisest, sickest human you’ll meet.”— Anne Sexton, amazon.com
“Doesn’t it scare you that you’ve wasted more than half of your life hating yourself? It should.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“However much you love somebody, you should always keep a part of yourself to yourself. Never give it all. You can never be yourself otherwise.”— Aidan Chambers, amazon.com
“You cannot convince people to love you. This is an absolute rule. No one will ever give you love because you want him or her to give it. Real love moves freely in both directions. Don’t waste your time on anything else.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Give yourself whole to your best moment, to your greatest memory. It is this you must recognize as king of time, your greatest memory. The condition to which all discipline must bring you back. That which allows you to despise yourself, as well as rightly to approve yourself. Center of strength, of…”— Paul Valery, amazon.com
“Being kind to others starts with being kind to yourself. Give up the need to be right all the time. It’s exhausting.”— Cylon George, spirituallivingforbusypeople.com
“Self-worth isn’t a switch that flips inside you. It’s a daily struggle not to sabotage your own success. Not to cave into the voices inside your head that whisper you’re not good enough, or you’ll fuck things up, or that someone else could do things better than you.”— Julie Johnson, amazon.com
“We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others.”— John Lennon, goodreads.com
“There is nothing shameful about loving yourself. The shame is in NOT loving the unique and brilliant individual that you are.”— Miya Yamanouchi, amazon.com
“Self-care doesn't always mean spoiling yourself with love. Sometimes it's accepting our ugly and seeing what we can do about it.”— Orooj-e-Zafar, facebook.com