It's not selfish to root for yourself. It's necessary.
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Quotes tagged ‘Self-Love’
Don't settle when you can't find better. Even if it feels like the easiest and safest option. Because one day you'll find it.
You are your own asset, and it's probably time you started giving yourself more credit.
No matter what others tell you or make you feel, you are worthy of love and you WILL be loved, again and again and again.
FACT: I am not as bad as other people made me out to be... And nobody else is capable of loving me as honestly as I can myself.
In a society that profits from your self doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act
If they don’t need you, it’s okay, you do not live for other people.
Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.
We must never allow other people’s limited perceptions to define us.
Love is one of the most wonderful emotions that we’re capable of. To be loved means to be cherished for being exactly the person that you are.
The moment we start loving ourselves, we experience shifts—positive shifts. Life begins to move forward with more ease and things begin to magically fall into place. Relationships improve. Health improves. And life begins to feel good—really good—ridiculously good.
In my work as a psychotherapist, I've found that we tend to be ashamed of our most unique, passionate and iconoclastic parts. These aspects of ourselves threaten our safety, but as I explain in my book Deeper Dating, they are the direct path to love and, not incidentally, to personal greatness. When…
Shame loses power when it is spoken.
Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy of love and belonging.
Just because someone isn’t willing or able to love us, it doesn’t mean that we are unlovable.
Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it’s a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.
We live in a world where most people still subscribe to the belief that shame is a good tool for keeping people in line. Not only is this wrong, but it’s dangerous. Shame is highly correlated with addiction, violence, aggression, depression, eating disorders, and bullying.
We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.
My mom always taught me that the first person you should love in this world is yourself — that you should believe in the legitimacy of your own feelings, shouldn't let external doubt become self-doubt, and should dress for yourself instead of others.
Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.