Marcus Aurelius Quotes

People might love themselves with the most entire and unbounded affection, and yet be extremely miserable.

Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues.

It's really important to talk to yourself and look at yourself in the mirror and love who you are.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

Your self-esteem won't come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in a while, and look for another reflection, like the one in the eyes of the people who love you and admire you.

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.

The fact that God accepts us should be our motivation for accepting ourselves. If we cannot accept ourselves the way we are, with our limitations and assets, weaknesses as well as strengths, shortcomings as well as abilities; then we cannot trust anyone else to accept us the way we are. We will always be putting on a front, building a facade around ourselves, never letting people know what we are really like deep down inside.

You can't hate/love others without loving/hating yourself first.

At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That's wonderful, and I'm happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.

Here's the thing: you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self, but in a guy, you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him.

It's the love you have for yourself that's most important.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

I can live with myself.

Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn't an easy road. I still don't always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me.

Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

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.

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.

Self-love is the source of all our other loves.

There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!

Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.