“I fell in love with you because you loved me when I couldn’t love myself.”— Unknown, thelovejournals.com
“Perhaps we should love ourselves so fiercely, that when others see us they know exactly how it should be done.”— Rudy Francisco, twitter.com
“my mentor asked me "would you be friends with people who spoke to you the way you speak to yourself?" and I was fucked up for 30 minutes.”— javie, twitter.com
“When I ask you about your first love I am always secretly hoping that you will say your own name. Now, wouldn’t that be beautiful – to above else have a heart that was proud of itself.”— Bianca Sparacino, twitter.com
“Let someone love you just the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect…”— Marc Hack, goodreads.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
“so here it is. i loved him, yes. but loving him made me kind of hate myself. and that wasn’t good.”— Warsan Shire, kushandwizdom.tumblr.com
“We don’t love each other; we love the idea we have of each other. Very few humans understand this or can bear to contemplate it. They have blind faith in their own powers of creation. All love, ultimately, is self-love.”— Robert Galbraith, amazon.com
“I would say to any girl out there to strive above and beyond your dreams and reach for the stars, because if you underestimate yourself, you’re never going to achieve what you could accomplish with self confidence.”— Alexandra Rizk Keane, thoughtcatalog.com
“I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you're not right for yourself, it's impossible to be right for anyone.”— Rachel Machacek, amazon.com
“But I love you, I love you for that too, not only for your virtues, but also for your malice.”— Knut Hamsun, amazon.com
“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”— Gloria Steinem, elle.com
“It’s just sort of a thankful feeling – that I’m alive and that people are glad I am . There’s nothing to say – you know everything about me, and that’s mostly what I think about – I seem always curiously interested in myself, and it’s so much fun to stand off and look at me”— Zelda Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“But just remember, life without me would be even more unbearable.”— Anne Rice, Lestat, Tom Cruise, amazon.com