"Our first and last love is - self-love." ~Christian Bovee
"Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers." ~Francois de la Rochefoucalud
"Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror." ~Byron Katie
"It's not your job to like me -- it's mine." ~Byron Katie
"To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now." ~Alan Cohen
"Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting." ~William Shakespeare
"You can explore the Universe looking for somebody who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and you will not find that person anywhere." ~unknown
"If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor." ~Nicholas de Chamfort
"The price of hating other human beings is loving one's self less." ~unknown
"Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it." ~unknown
"I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except you." ~Rita Mae Brown
"He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude." ~Aristotle
"The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others." ~Dag Hammarskjold
If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy. ~Kristin Chenoweth
"If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself." ~Barbara De Angelis
"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ~Lucille Ball
"I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself." ~Mae West
"I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round." ~Muhammad Ali
"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with bastly superior talent." ~Sophia Loren
"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire Universe, deserve your love and affection." ~Buddha
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will spend its whole life believing that is is stupid." ~Albert Einstein
"Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers." ~Veronica A. Shoffstall
"You must love yourself before you can love another. By fully accepting yourself and being who you are, your simple presence has a positive impact."~Denna J. Shelton
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"Thank You" for this wonderful reflection and meditation, Denna! First we learn to love, then we remember with glee, that we 'are' Love!
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