Bell Hooks Quotes

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

If you don't love yourself, it's impossible for you to love others. You can't give away what you don't have.

The first problem, of course, is that we haven't learned to love ourselves. That's the first problem. We can only give to another what we have to give. And if we have no love over here, we can't give it over there.

We ourselves need love; it's not only society, the world outside, that needs love. But we can't expect that love to come from outside of us. We should ask the question whether we are capable of loving ourselves as well as others.

To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.

Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself.

You can love yourself spiritually, physically-in almost any way that anybody else can.

The first best-kept secret of total success is that we must feel love inside ourselves before we can give it to others.

If you cannot love yourself, you don't know even the taste of love or what love means.

Love yourself, so that love will not be a stranger when it comes

Be loving towards yourself, then you will be able to love others too.

Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.

I want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It's only when you are happy yourself, can you make everyone else around you happy. I am still a dreamer and still believe in fairy tales, but there is only that much one should give another person. You need to keep something for yourself.

You have to love yourself or you'll never be able to accept compliments from anyone.

Only you can give yourself the love you need and deserve.

When you feel fulfilled, you feel happy - You feel love. When it comes to love, you always come first. If you don't love yourself, you can't truly love anyone else, either. I always tell myself to stay in love.

One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.

I remember the time I said, 'I don't think you love yourself. You need to learn to love yourself.'

A lot of people say if you can't love yourself, then you can't love others. It's always different, but I definitely have loved a lot in my life.

It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.

If people would treat themselves with the same kind of love they give to their friends, that would be such a great gift we could give ourselves.

If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself.

Self love is the instrument of our preservation.