Self love quotes are great reminders for you to be validated in your self worth just like affirmations. Practising self love isn’t always easy but it is worth it because it contributes to your happiness and success.
Loving yourself has so many benefits, some of them being less stress, anxiety and depression. When you do start to love yourself you start to practise more self care and this starts to show up in your relationships.
You no longer think it’s acceptable for you to keep chasing people who constantly shut the door on your face. Pain isn’t an emotion that is addicting to you and you’d rather opt for peace.
The love you have for yourself makes it easy to walk away from people who are unsure about you, or people who leave you feeling confused, anxious and up at night. You now understand that you truly deserve happiness, reciprocity from others and are worthy of love.
Theses quotes about self love, healing and self love poems from the likes of Rumi, R.H. sin and Rupi Kaur will help you stay on the right track in your healing journey.
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Self Love & Healing Quotes
1
Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life.
Akshay Dubey
2
Sadly we settle for what we are used to even when what we are used to is pain.
R.H Sin
3
If you walked away from a toxic, negative, abusive, one-sided, dead-end low vibrational relationship or friendship you won.
LaLa Delia
4
I hope you always have the courage to love yourself no matter how many times the world breaks your heart.
Dhiman
5
Sometimes you have to be alone to heal.
Ry Reed
6
My darling, be patient with yourself, healing takes time, healing implies kindness, healing means changes, becoming is not easy. Be patient with yourself, you are gardening your soul. Some flowers are meant to bloom later.
Alexandra Vasiliu
7
If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but ending.
Nayyirah Waheed
8
No one can rescue me. I know because I’ve already tried to get them to do it. It doesn’t work. This is all on me.
Michelle D’Avella
9
Don’t run yourself down, darling. There are plenty of people in the world who will do that for you.
Maya Angelou
10
Make peace with your broken pieces.
r.h. Sin
11
Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.
Brene Brown
12
She was happy. She lived for herself and enjoyed her own company . They called it loneliness, she knew it was freedom.
F.E. Marie
13
You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
Louise Hay
14
May the flowers remind you why the rain was so necessary.
XAN OKU
15
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Marianne Williamson
16
If you do not love yourself, who will?
Lao Tzu
17
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
Kahlil Gibran
18
Nobody can hurt me without my permission.
Mahatma Gandhi
19
I am a woman, phenomenally. Phenomenal woman that is me.
Maya Angelou
20
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
Quotes On Self Love And Happiness
21
Your most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.
Diane Von Furstenberg
22
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball
23
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.
Oscar Wilde
24
If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell are you gonna love somebody else?
RuPaul
25
The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.
Steve Maraboli
26
I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved.
Princess Diana
28
Self-love is the balance between accepting yourself as you are while knowing you deserve better, and then working towards it.
Vex King
29
Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.
Rupi Kaur
30
To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.
Robert Morley
31
There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
Aldous Huxley
32
Your task is not to seek for love but merely find all barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Rumi
33
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us
Ralph Waldo Emerson
34
Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.
Confucius
35
I will celebrate this life of mine, with or without you. The moon does not need the sun to tell her she is already whole.
Lang Leav
36
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh
37
When you accept yourself, the whole world accepts you.
Lao Tzu
38
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.
Mary Oliver
39
Sometimes we have to move on from the people who don’t add much happiness to our life, so that we can meet the people who will.
Vex King
40
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.
Buddha
41
The universe is going to give you the exact same lesson in different versions over again until you master it. This is one of the single most important universal laws you can learn about the nature of reality.
Maryam Hasnaa
Short Self Love Quotes
42
She remembered who she was and changed the game
Lalah Deliah
43
Forgive others not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.
Jonathan Lockwood
44
I will not be another flower, picked for my beauty and left to die. I will be wild, difficult to find, and impossible to forget.
Erin Van Vuren
45
Our first and last love is self love
Christian Nestell Bovee
46
Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone, to experience, appreciate and love yourself.
Robert Tew
47
In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you.
Andrea Dykstra
48
You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else’s life.
Ralph Marston
49
Love yourself so much that when someone treats you wrong, you recognise it.
Rena Rose
50
Surround yourself with people who are vibin’ higher than you. Be around people who are feeling better than you are. Energy is contagious.
Vex King
51
One of the best guides on how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others.
Bell Hooks
52
Low self esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.
Maxwell Maltz
53
You need your own love to save your heart.
Rithvik Singh
54
It’s easy to love
the nice things about ourselves
but true self-love is
embracing the difficult parts
that live in all of us.
– Rupi Kaur
55
Remember who you were
before they told you who to be.
Ducle Ruby
56
You are not a drop in the ocean
You are the entire ocean in a drop.
Rumi
57
If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
Charles Bukowski
58
Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give, and nobody will care for you.
Karl Lagerfeld
59
Stop looking outside for scraps of pleasure or fulfilment, for validation, security or love – you have a treasure within that is greater than anything the world can offer.
Eckhart Tolle
60
We can’t be so desperate for love that we forget where we can always find it; within.
Alex Elle
61
Be the love you never received.
Rune Lazuli
62
Above all else embrace your flaws.
JH Hard
63
When you discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
64
In your own life it’s important to know how spectacular you are.
Steve Maraboli
65
Self-acceptance is the beginning of self-love.
Dhiman
Self Inspirational Quotes
66
Even though you are heartbroken
keep you heart open
so pain can find an exit.
Alexandra Vasiliu
67
People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.
Dan Pearce
68
Yesterday I was clever,
so I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise so I am changing
myself.
Rumi
69
If you always play the victim when something goes wrong, life will always treat you like one. Don’t let your circumstances define your future.
Vex King
70
In the infinity of life where I am, all is perfect, whole and complete, I no longer choose to believe in old limitations and lack. I now choose to begin to see myself as the Universe sees me – perfect, whole and complete.
Louise Hay
71
The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.
Mark Twain
72
do not look for healing
at the feet of those
who broke you.
Rupi Kaur
73
One day your love for yourself will outweigh the love that keeps you holding onto someone who chooses to hurt you; one day the love for yourself will be your strength-that love will be more than enough reason for you to walk away for good.
R.H Sin
74
It’s a beautiful thing when you love yourself. When you are finally able to make peace with your storms instead of running away from them.
F.E. Marie
75
When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.
Jodi Picoult
76
Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.
Maya Angelou
77
I think you are so brave for walking away from the things and the places and the people that are not for you anymore (Even when it’s hard. Even when it hurts.)
F.E Marie
78
You may cut me with your eyes. You may kill me with your hatefulness. But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Maya Angelou
79
We accept the love we think we deserve.
Stephen Chbosky
80
To find a happy ending with someone else, first you have to find it alone.
Soman Chainani
Deep Self Healing Quotes
81
If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s fantasies for me and eaten alive.
Audre Lorde
82
Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Eleanor Roosevelt
83
Be a master at loving yourself and people will follow.
Kim Guerra
84
You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
Diane von Furstenberg
85
You say you don’t like something and yet you keep focusing on it, talking about it, getting emotional and giving it your creative energy. How is that working out for you?
Maryam Hasnaa
86
We can only love others as much as we love ourselves.
Brené Brown
87
Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.
Audre Lorde
88
Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
M. Scott Peck
89
You don’t need them to love you for you to love you.
Alex Elle
90
I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone, it’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone.
Robin Williams
91
When you choose yourself first you show the world what you truly deserve.
Dhiman
92
When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.
Diane Von Furstenberg
93
fall
in love
with your solitude
Rupi Kaur
94
Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.
Shannon L. Alder
95
Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself – what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.
Warsan Shire
96
Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.
Tina Fey
97
In order to heal properly you must walk away from what broke you.
R.H. Sin
98
Always choose yourself first. Women are very socialised to choose other people. If you put yourself first, it’s this incredible path you can forge for yourself.
Rebecca Traister
99
Sometimes you have to walk away from people, not because you don’t care, but because they don’t.
Melchor Lim
100
Healing is not so much about fixing yourself. It’s coming to the realisation that there was never anything wrong with you.
Favour Ebede
It is imperative to use these self love quotes as a constant reminder for self love and acceptance, as these are essential components of healing. Recognising our own potential and infinite worth is necessary in order to truly heal and progress. What was your favourite self love quote on this list? If you have any quotes on self love that I didn’t include, feel free to do so in the comment section!
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