“Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.”— Audre Lorde, newyorker.com
“Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself.”— Tara Stiles, theodysseyonline.com
“We teach kids the golden rule because we anticipate needing to remind them to be selfless, but we don’t think about what to do when the hard part of loving your neighbor as yourself is that you have to love yourself, too.”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“Commit to loving yourself completely. It’s the most radical thing you will do in your lifetime.”— Andrea Gibson, issuu.com
“She looks in the mirror and wonders if today will finally be the day she loves herself.”— Ms. Bloom, twitter.com
“On nights when you feel like your mouth Is filled with scar tissue when your fists are heavier than your clay heart, remember the broken that does not need replacement remember the lungs that pound air in a body too tired to kiss the sun tell yourself you are still working on it say healing, say tak…”— Tammy Danan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Hold that white flag close to your heart And pluck the orange from the sun – it is setting Let it set on your palms Let your shaking bones beat like djembe drums Let your surrender fall to the ground So it can hold this tiny blue earth together. There is an ocean inside of you and Its waves come in…”— Tammy Danan, thoughtcatalog.com
“I see smoke each time I look in the mirror Perhaps this is God’s way of keeping me safe He knows I’m tired of seeing dead birds in rusting cages. Last night, I called the wind and asked How she taught the dove to fly ‘the sky is a map if you know how to look’ She said. And I looked at my skin, marke…”— Tammy Danan, thoughtcatalog.com
“Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”— Louise Hay, amazon.com
“My first love was some insignificant boy when it should have been myself.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“I was so young before New York that I believed loving myself each day would be easier there. But lying in bed, I can hear the wind, and the trees shaking because they have no choice, and I want to go someplace where the trees grow apples shiny and persistent as stars.”— Carlie Hoffman, narrativemagazine.com
“The earth has never stopped moving, growing, evolving for anyone and neither should you.”— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com
“And first, before him and before her and before them there was you. Never forget that.”— Nikita Gill, yoursoulisariver.com
“Once it was proposed to me that it was all right to be like I am, I finally quit apologizing for it.”— Carrie Fisher, rollingstone.com
“Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand but ultimately they are indistinguishable.”— M. Scott Peck,, amazon.com
“You are your own asset, and it's probably time you started giving yourself more credit.”— Maya Kachroo-Levine, thoughtcatalog.com
“I wanted to be a beautiful woman dating a beautiful woman who wanted to fuck me. A bad-ass boss who thought I looked cute in a snapback hat but also cute without it. Someone who loved me and the diversity within me.”— Hannah Hart, amazon.com