Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Love for yourself is the key to loving other. Love begins with you

Nurtured, nourished people, who love themselves and care for themselves, are the delight of the Universe.

As I have said many times - no 1 loves me as much as I love myself! And if you can't really love yourself, you can't love anything you do!

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 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.

Until I learned to love myself, I was never ever lovin' nobody else.

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.

You set the standards for how you will be treated. People will treat you the exact way you treat yourself. So be good to you. Take time for yourself. Rest. Play. Shower yourself with affection, support, and gifts.

Nobody is gonna love you like you.

You always have to remember to take care of yourself first and foremost, because when you stop taking care of yourself you get out of balance and you really forget how to take care of others.

There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.

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

The main health hazard in the world today is people who don't love themselves.

I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.

I do for myself exactly what I would do for you - make a lovely cup of tea, or a hot bath, or go buy myself a fabulous pair of socks. I believe that you take the action, and THEN the insight follows - I do loving things for me, stroke my own shoulder, put myself down for a short nap, and the insight follows: that I am a wild precious woman, a human merely being, as e e cummings put it, deserving of respect, tenderness, protection, delight, and solidarity. And that is what Home looks like for me now.

You gotta love yourself, because when you're hurting - you never know who's gonna be around to do the lovin' for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.

The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal.

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.

I try to be good to myself. Look, we're human and people have differences.

Loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves.

Don't abuse yourself or withhold self-love or self-care.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

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.

Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.

If we don't love ourselves, tell me, how can we love somebody else?