3,596 Quotes About Self-love

Loving yourself first fills your own heart with love. If there is no love in your heart, then how can you give love?

We need to love ourselves as much, if not more than we love anyone else!

Aku menggeleng, seolah dengan begitu memori-memori itu bisa hilang. Udara terasa pengap di sekelilingku, membuat dadaku sesak. Aku rindu embusan angin musim gugur. Saat melihat ke luar jendela, aku tahu bahwa angin dapat membawa pergi dari dunia yang tak ingin kutempati lagi ini.

When you give a gift, give it freely when you receive a gift receive it graciously, no strings attached and no expectations of something in return. It is not a gift if there is attachment or expectation.

I cannot continue to live as half of myself simply because it’s hard for others to handle all of me.

The most painful thing about the woman whose mother did not want her was not her mothers lack of love, but that in seeing herself the way her mother saw her, she cut herself off from her own love. We believe that because being wanted and being seen and being loved once depended on someone else, they still do.

You can’t expect to move forward if your emergency break is on.

And how if I were the kind of person who deserved her, everything would be more clear.

Our body-minds tumble, shift, ease their way through space and time, never static. Gender transition in its many forms is simply another kind of motion. I lived in a body-mind assigned female at birth and made peace with it as a girl, a tomboy, a dyke, a queer woman, a butch. But uncovering my desire to transition—to live as a genderqueer, a female-to-male transgender person, a white guy—challenged everything I thought I knew about self-acceptance and love.