To love yourself is to love the Universe. Embrace self-love, it is your path to happiness and enlightenment. To help you to get inspired to love yourself, read this post and internalize the meaning and wisdom of these love yourself quotes.
Introduction- Love yourself quotes
Have you bought into the belief that loving yourself is selfish? Do you believe that self-love is arrogance? Are you someone that is always giving, taking care of others while placing yourself in the back burner? Do you have a mind chatter that is self-critical? Do you worry about what other people think? Do you care more about what other people think that your own wellbeing? Would you benefit from more self-confidence? Do you feel that love is lacking in your life? Do you have low self-esteem?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, it means you have not learned to love yourself unconditionally. Therefore you can definitely benefit from the teachings of these love yourself quotes by some of the wisest historical figures.
Love yourself quotes by Buddha
A more complete version of this love yourself quote from the teachings of Buddha goes as follows:
“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.” Buddha
The meaning of this love yourself quote is deep and profound. Do you have any thoughts or beliefs about others being in any way, shape or form more deserving or worthy of your love and affection than yourself? Do you give to others more love and affection than to yourself?
If you answered yes to any of these two questions, then printout or bookmark this quote and read it daily as a reminder to love yourself.
Remind yourself every day that you deserve love and affection and give it to yourself.
“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
Buddha
This quote by Buddha might not sound like a love yourself quote but it is. This teaching is about recognizing your power and freedom, which is a natural outcome of self-love. What Buddha is taking about is free will.
You are the only one that can choose your own healing, your happiness and your path to enlightenment. You can learn from others and you can get help from others and you are the one choosing to do so.
Likewise, you can’t save others or change others against their will. Therefore, make loving yourself completely first priority and you will inspire others to do the same.
A great resource to learn how to love yourself is the course titled: When You Love Yourself Completely.
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
Buddha
Do you hold a belief that loving yourself is selfish or arrogant? If you do even a little, then this quote is for you.
This love yourself quote by Buddha is a great reminder that when you love yourself, you are overflowing with love and become more loving toward others. Therefore, next time that you feel some resistance to make time for yourself read this quote. Make yourself a priority.
From the higher truth perspective, truly loving yourself results in loving all beings and all creation. The is because from the highest truth we are all One.
“If you truly loved yourself, you could never hurt another.”
Buddha
These two quotes by Buddha are directly related to Self-love because having self-compassion and self-understanding are keys in your path of loving yourself.
To love yourself, you need to have forgiven yourself for all the perceived mistakes and wrongdoings.
Self-compassion is the understanding of your human conditions, your limitations and fears that led to your past mistakes and/or wrongdoings. Compassion and understanding are essential ingredients of forgiveness, which is a pre-requisite to Self-love.
To love yourself, you need to go beyond forgiveness and clear shame, guilt and regret for all your perceived mistakes and/or wrongdoings.
To empower you to do that with ease yet a deep level is the program called the Antidote. The program includes Your Personalized Antidote Codes – that in my personal experience – makes the clearing of toxic emotions very effective and deep. You can find more information about this program: Antidote
“If your compassion does not include yourself, then it is incomplete.”
Buddha
In this quote, Buddha is taking about discovering your inner world, which is gaining self-awareness. Discovering your inner-self is another key in your journey of embracing more and more Self-love.
Your inner-self will guide you to Joy and Self-love, make it a priority to discover and connect to your inner-self.
“Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it.”
Buddha
Love yourself quotes by Rumi
Are you a perfectionist? Do you criticize yourself? Are you self-judgmental? Do you sometimes get into the beat up mode? Do you sometimes have thoughts of not being good enough? Do you suffer from low self esteem? Do you suffer from performance anxiety because of fears of not being good enough?
If you answered yes to any of the above questions, then print out or bookmark this quote. This love yourself quote by Rumi is so beautiful and heartwarming. It will help you to snap out from low vibrational thoughts of unworthiness, self-condemnation and self-judgment.
This self-love quote by Rumi will remind you of your perfection and magnificence.
“You were born from the rays of God’s Majesty when the stars were in their perfect place.”
Rumi
Are you covering your greatness with some beliefs of unworthiness? Are you deceiving yourself by playing small in life? Are you playing being insignificant or inferior? Do you suffer from low self-esteem ? Do you lack confidence ? Do you suffer from any Shame or embarrassment?
If you answered yes, or may be, or sometimes, then this love yourself quote by Rumi will help you to remember your value and your light shining through your eyes.
If you are not embracing and owning the magnificence and immense worth of who you are, you probably holding onto binding emotional states of Shame and Unworthiness.
A Powerful resource to release Shame and Unworthiness and embrace the magnificence of your authentic-self is a course titled: Healing Shame and Unworthiness. Check out the description of the content of this Deep and Empowering course from my teacher Julius: Healing Shame and Unworthiness
“You are a ruby encased in granite. How long will you deceive us with this outer show? O friend, we can see the truth in your eyes!”
Rumi
Self-love includes the recognition and acknowledgement of your inherent potential and greatness. This recognition of your greatness is not from a place of superiority to others. It is from a place of knowing that you do not need to compare yourself with others: You are a unique ruby shinning your light.
To recognize, accept and own your innate greatness and potential is to embrace self-worth (self-esteem). If you are not embracing your greatness, you might like to check out: How to build self-esteem?
“You were born with potential. You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness.”
Rumi
To love yourself requires to nurture your inner self, to spend time being instead of doing. Techniques to do that are meditation, mindfulness and contemplation of nature.
This love yourself Rumi quote is more applicable than ever. Most people in today society are so enchanted by the external world. We spend so much time paying attention to the news, to what others doing, to celebrities etc.
We spend so much time with social media and neglect to pay attention to the treasures of our inner self.
“Why are you so enchanted by this world when a mine of gold lies within you?”
Rumi
This love quote by Rumi can be applied both to romantic love and to self-love. Applied to self-love, this quote indicates to silence our mind chatter of self-rejection and other self-directed toxic emotions such as guilt and shame.
To love yourself is being in complete self-acceptance. It requires silencing our thoughts of self-rejection.
To silence the mind chatter of self-rejection, you can’t do it from a place of resistance. You can’t do it from a place of trying to force yourself to stop mind chatter. You need to transmute the toxic emotion of self-rejection, guilt and shame to the high frequency emotion of self-love. To do that use an emotional healing process. The process I use is called Clearing Toxic Emotions. It works with your personalized Antidote codes that makes the process very powerful and effective.
“I choose to love you in silence… For in silence I find no rejection.”
Rumi
The more you love yourself, the more loving you become towards others. In addition, the more you love yourself, the more loving others become toward you. This is the reason that Law of Attraction for love states that when you love yourself, you attract love, including romantic love.
“I love myself…I love you. I love you…I love myself.”
Rumi
Love yourself quotes by Lao Tzu
Are you concerned about what others might say or think about you? Are you frequently trying to please others to get approval or crumbs of love from them?
Do you buy expensive material items to show others your significance? Do you work your butt off to climb a corporate ladder to gain admiration from others while taxing your health? Are you concerned that others might reject you if you do not look, be or do a certain way? Are you triggered with performance anxiety because of fears of others disapproval?
If you answered yes or may be to any of these questions, then come back frequently to this love yourself quote by Lao Tzu. Use this quote to remind yourself of self-acceptance, self-contentment and self-belief, which are branches of self-love.
When you really love yourself you do not need any external validation to feel and know your worth and value.
When you truly love yourself you do not seek external accomplishments to convince others of your greatness. With self-love you just know your greatness and see greatness in others as well.
In addition, per virtue of the Law of Attraction, when you embody self-acceptance, self-belief and self-love, the whole world accept you, believe in you and love yourself.
“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”
Lao-Tzu
Do you force yourself to do activities that you do not enjoy just to fit in with your friends or peers? Do you follow a fashion or a trend because others do even when you do not really like it? Are you afraid to show your authentic self for fear of rejection?
If you answered yes or may be to any of these questions, you value more other people opinions and values more than your own.
To love yourself is to pay attention to your authentic values and your feelings in a process of self-awareness. What warms your heart? What brings you joy? Stop focusing so much on the external world and turn your focus to your inner-self.
“Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!”
Lao-Tzu
Love yourself quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
This RW Emerson’s quote is to inspire you to love yourself by remind you of your true essence of light and love.
You have chosen the human experience and you have bought into some limitations, fears and judgments that created shadows. Your true essence of light is always present and it will shine through more and more as you move away from your shadows.
As you turn on the volume on Self-love, you are increasing the brightness of your own sunshine.
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one’s own sunshine.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This love yourself quote by Ralph W. Emerson talks about following your inner-self. When you love yourself enough to make time to connect with your inner voice and guidance, you will discover the richness of your inner-self.
When you follow your inner guidance, you will find joy. To do that you need to drop the habit of comparing yourself with others.
It is not self-loving to set goals in life and achieve them from a place of competition. It is self-loving to set goals and achieve from a place of authentic values and desires.
How do you play in life? Do you play by the “rules” doing what society or others dictate? or Do you embrace your uniqueness and authentic self?
Embracing your uniqueness and authentic self brings you fulfilment in life. However it is challenging because of the society standards and rules.
A resource to empower you to dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself, is the course titled: Winning The Game of Life. It includes topics such as: How to move powerfully into authenticity? How to play in your authentic position and move into fulfilment? The rewards of being in the game of life and out of it …. etc. Check out the content of this expansive and transformative course at: Winning the Game of Life
Be yourself; no base imitator of another, but your best self. Listen to the inward voice and bravely obey that. Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The more you love yourself and cultivate your connection with your inner-self, the more you will recognize your power and sovereign.
In this physical dimension appears that we are at the whim of external circumstances and other people. We tend to forget that we have the power and choice of our feelings and thoughts.
We often time forget that we generate our vibrational frequency that brings us people and circumstances that match our frequency. In other words, our external world mirrors back to us, our internal world. That is the workings of the Universal law of Attraction in the manifestation of our Holographic external world.
This love yourself quote by R.W. Emerson helps you to awaken to the awareness of your power to shape and Redesign your Reality.
A very powerful program to help you to align your vibrations to match the Reality that you desire to create is the Redesign Your Reality toolkit.
”Nothing external to you has any power over you. The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love yourself quotes by Krishna
This love yourself quote by Krishna is to remind you that you have the power of choice of loving yourself and be your own friend.
On the other hand, you might be criticizing and condemning yourself. You might be doing it through your mind chatter and might not even be aware of it because you are so used to.
Pay attention to your mind chatter and when you catch yourself with self-judging thoughts, question them and turn them around into self-loving thoughts. To criticize yourself is a form of self-hate. Are you being your own enemy sometimes?
It is time to become your own best friend by loving yourself. It is in your power to do that as Krishna quote states.
In order to stop being your own enemy, you need to clear all self-directed toxic emotions. You need to clear guilt, shame, regret and self-hate. The easiest and most effective tool that I know to do that is the Personalized Antidote Codes used with the Antidote process. You might like to check out the description of this life changing program: Antidote
“We have the power to be our own friend or the folly to become our own enemy”
Krishna
To truly love yourself, you need to let go of all regrets for things done or not done and words said or not said.
When you love yourself, you have forgiven yourself of all past mistakes. In addition, the more you love yourself, the more trusting and optimistic you become of your future. Then you live in the present and appreciate every moment of now.
You need not have any regrets from the past. Do not worry for the future. Live in the present. Krishna
Krishna
Love yourself quotes by Marcus Aurelius
This quote by Marcus Aurelius teaches you that you have the power to be happy by choosing your thoughts.
To love yourself choose to think about yourself with kindness, appreciation and understanding. Make a conscious choice of focusing on your positive qualities.
“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”
Marcus Aurelius
This Marcus Aurelius quote is about focusing on appreciating life every morning when you wake up. In addition, I would recommend conjuring appreciation and gratitude thoughts about yourself as a Self-love ritual.
In your gratitude journal, every day notice, acknowledge and celebrate yourself.
Being in gratitude and appreciation of yourself, nature and life is a great way to raise your vibrational frequency. You will be happier, stress less and accomplish more.
An unique and deep teaching in gratitude is titled: Live more, Stress less in Gratitude. This course includes: Full depth understanding of the energy force of gratitude, Tools to harness the great power of gratitude, How to make a decision without letting fear in? and much, much more …. Check out the description of the content of this deep and practical course: Live more, Stress less in Gratitude
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
Marcus Aurelius
In the evenings each time you have the opportunity to watch the starts imaging yourself being a start and dancing in the skies. Follow Marcus Aurelius love yourself quote and dwell on the beauty of life, the starts and yourself.
“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
Marcus Aurelius
This love yourself quote by Marcus Aurelius is implying that when you set more value on what others think or say about you than your own perspective of who you are, then you do not really love yourself.
When you love yourself completely, you stand strong in self-confidence in the knowing of your true magnificence essence, and then others opinions do not sawed you.
Instead you recognize that when others criticize or judge you, they are doing it as a projection of their own self-judgment. You do not take it personally and stay in a place of understanding of others.
A teaching on how to love yourself is titled: When You Love Yourself Completely. It includes: A very effective process to start loving yourself, How to raise your children to give them the best start in life etc. For a description of the content of this great class, go to: When You Love Yourself Completely
“I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”
Marcus Aurelius
Are you staying in an emotional or physical abusive relationship with the hope that the other person will change? Do you tear yourself apart trying to change the other person?
To love yourself you need to recognize that the only person that you can change is yourself. You can inspire others to change but never stay in an abusive relationship.
Tearing yourself apart while trying to change others is not congruent with loving yourself. Keep yourself at a distance of the poison of toxic relationships.
“Do what you will. Even if you tear yourself apart, most people will continue doing the same things.”
Marcus Aurelius
Love yourself quotes by Oscar Wilde
This love yourself quote by Oscar Wilde is prompting you to love yourself in all who you are and in your uniqueness.
Other love relationships might or might not last a lifetime. The only love relationship that without any doubt is lifelong is the relationship with yourself.
Therefore fall in love and stay in love with yourself. Sustain a lifelong romance with yourself. In order to do that you must have an intimate relationship with yourself- with your soul.
A deep teaching about healing the relationship with self is titled: Reaching Greater Depths of Intimacy. It includes: How to regain connection with your soul? What causes disconnection from joy and bliss? Meditation to experience yourself as the light that you are ….etc Check out the description of the content of this profound course: Reaching Greater Depts of Intimacy
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
Oscar Wilde
To implement this teaching by Oscar Wilde is to love yourself. The reason is that when you see your mistakes as experiences that have helped you to learn and grow, then you release self-judgment.
To love yourself is to stop beating up yourself for perceived mistakes and appreciating yourself for being a player in this life expanding the universe through your experiences.
If you are holding any guilt, shame or regret for things done or not done, you need to clear those toxic emotions – to be able to love yourself.
A great resource to free yourself from guilt, shame and regret and move beyond forgiveness of self and others is the Antidote program. It includes a powerful Personalized Antidote Codes that together with a 7 step process transforms your toxic emotions to vibrations of pure love. Check out this powerful program at: Antidote
The Antidote program helps you to move beyond forgiveness and transform “mistakes” into valuable experience that become assets in your life.
“Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde
The wonderful life is within you. To discover the wonderful life, you need to love yourself and spend time within.
Sit in stillness with yourself. Feel the sensations of your body. Feel the emotions of your heart. Allow with curiosity your emotions and feelings to flow through your body. Don’t be afraid of your emotions and welcome them.
Take several breaks during your busy day and spend 5-10 minutes in stillness. Relax yourself by taking a few deep breaths and then just pay attention to the sensations of your body.
Heighten your awareness of the sensations of your body while touching a rose, smelling a rose, doing yoga, smelling essential oils, getting a massage, getting an Epson salts bath, contemplating nature etc. Seek out new sensations and above all pay attention to the emotions and sensations. “Let nothing be lost upon you”
Because of painful experiences and society teachings, many of us have disconnected ourselves from our emotions. In other words we have numb ourselves and therefore we are missing out of feeling the wonders that life offers.
May be you were told as a child that it is not ok to cry or to laugh. May be you were told as a child that your feelings and emotions are not valid. May be you do not feel safe to feel and express your emotions. May be you have been suppressing your emotions for so long that you do not even recognize that you are doing it.
If you like to reactive your emotions and feel the wonderful life that is in you, a great course for that is called: Feeling Your Emotions Safely. It includes: Meditation to feel your emotions safely and enjoy the process. How to know that you are suppressing emotions and much more. Check out the description of this advance and practical course: Feeling Your Emotions Safely
“Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde
Doing what you love is an act of loving yourself. It will lighten up within you the enthusiasm for life.
In this quote, Henry David Thoreau is teaching you about the importance of nurturing your enthusiasm to keep you young.
Therefore to love yourself make time to do activities that you love and lighten up your enthusiasm.
Ideally you love your job. If not, at least, set aside time to engage in activities that you love.
Do you love dancing? Do you love singing? Do you love painting? Do you love yoga? Do you love hiking? Do you love swimming in a lake? If you are not sure what you love, try out different classes and activities.
Introducing variety and newness into your life by trying out new activities is a great way to light up enthusiasm. Don’t be shy and do not hold back on trying out new activities. You can start dancing today even if you are 80 years old and never done it before.
“None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. Do what you love”
Henry David Thoreau
This is a love yourself quote by H.D. Thoreau because doing a daily physical activity support your wellness and health. When you love yourself you honour yourself and your body with a healthy lifestyle of physical activity and healthy eating.
If you are able to walk daily in nature is even better. Being in nature is uplifting because of its inherent high vibrational frequency. If you pay attention, you can feel the love of the trees, of a lake, of an ocean etc. Being in nature and walking in nature is a practice of self-love.
If you live close to the ocean or a lake, then walk along the shore of a beach.
You might like to schedule your walk early morning as suggested by H.D. Thoreau to start the day on a high note and carry it throughout the day. That is a great option; however, a walk is beneficial and self-loving no matter what time of the day you do it.
“An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day”
Henry David Thoreau
Being grateful for what you are is an essential practice of loving yourself. Most likely, simply because that is our societal conditioning, you were taught as a child to pay attention to perceived deficiencies about yourself.
We are told that when we focus on our “weaknesses”, we are motivated to become better. This is a huge misunderstanding, because by the law of attraction, we become what we focus on. By focusing on “deficiencies”, we upload limiting beliefs of unworthiness plus limiting believes of not being capable.
Make it a daily practice to journal about what are you thankful for about yourself. Carry your journal with yourself and throughout the day when you notice yourself being or doing anything positive jot it down. Nothing is too small to be grateful for. Notice how you are being less reactive than before. Notice how you are eating healthier than before. Notice that you are being kinder with yourself and others etc.
H.D. Thoreau quote is also teaching you about gratitude for what you have. This is also a love yourself practice because by being grateful for what you already have, you are raising your frequency and you are inviting more abundance into your life.
Love yourself by making every day a thanksgiving day of gratitude and celebration for what you are and what you have.
“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
Henry David Thoreau
Love yourself quotes by Confucius
This quote by Confucius is encouraging you to see beauty in all creation. Start by seeing beauty in yourself. See the beauty in the magnificent creation that you are.
As you love yourself and recognize the beauty in yourself, you will inspire others to do the same.
In addition, make it a daily practice to contemplate the beauty in everything in nature. See the beauty in the trees, in the clouds, in the sunrise, in the sunsets, in the flowers, in the snow, in the rain, in pets, in children etc. This practice will help you feel happier.
“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it.”
Confucius
To love yourself throughout the ups and downs of live, each time you fall focus on the glory of rising up again. If you follow this Confucius quote you will avoid beating up yourself for falling down and instead you will be loving yourself in the process of rising.
Love yourself and celebrate yourself for the courage of navigating the roller coasters of life. You are a magnificent courageous being.
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall”
Confucius
To be all what you are at the core of your being is self-loving. You might be asking: How do I know who am I at the centre of my being?
To know yourself at your core, you need to engage in practices that increase self-awareness. You need to love yourself enough to set aside time to spend with your inner-self in stillness. To increase your self-awareness is not only rewarding and beneficial to all aspects of your life, it is self-loving.
“I want you to be everything that’s you, deep at the center of your being.”
Confucius
Unfortunately, in today society, very few people follow the recommendation from this love yourself quote by Confucius.
The reason is that society believes that jobs to earn abundance of money are limited to certain traditional professions and jobs.
This is the result of limiting beliefs. Whatever you believe becomes your truth.
There are people that have unshackled themselves from the societal limiting beliefs and they are manifesting money doing what they love.
There are people making a comfortable living doing a variety of artistic, creative, entrepreneurial activities that they love.
May be the tourist guide in the corner of the image loves his job.
“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life”
Confucius
One of the keys to loving yourself is to practice the art of forgiveness to release all toxic emotions that you are holding onto. Toxic emotions are like poison to your body plus they keep you feeling unhappy.
You probably heard the phrase “Forgiveness is for you”. It means that when you have forgiven those who have wronged you or hurt you, it is for your own benefit. Forgiving others and yourself is self-loving.
“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it”
Confucius
Closing paragraphs
To love yourself is not selfish because by loving yourself, you raise your frequency and you become more loving toward others. You become less judgmental toward yourself and therefore toward others.
The more you love yourself, the more self-confident you become and the less external validation you need. When you truly love yourself, you release the need of comparing yourself with others. You recognize and celebrate your uniqueness.
When you raise your self-love, all areas of your life improve: health, relationship, finances and spirituality. Learn to love yourself as Source does: Unconditionally, which is true love
It is time to fall in love with yourself. It is an essential key to happiness. It is also an essential key to enlightenment, simply because to love ALL creation, beings and universe, you need to start by loving yourself unconditionally.
Read these love yourself quotes out loud multiple times and pay attention to your emotions and feelings. Which one resonates with you? Which one moves you? Which teachings could you implement?
Choose a few of the love yourself quotes that most resonate with you, that move you or help to uplift your mood. Use this quotes with some frequency as a reminder to love yourself.
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