Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

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.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.

I've really come to realize you have to love yourself before you can expect someone else to.

I know firsthand how long it takes to learn how to love yourself.

When we don't have a boyfriend or girlfriend, we always say, 'Oh, I'm so lonely. I want a date,' or something like that. But I think the biggest love we're all searching for is the love for one's self.

Friendship with oneself is all important.

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

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

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.

You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.

I love myself.

I think one great tip is that you should always love yourself. If you don't love yourself, take care of yourself, cater to yourself and that little inner voice, you will really not be very worthy of being with someone else, because you won't be the best version of you.

You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.

Don't ever criticize yourself. Don't go around all day long thinking, 'I'm unattractive, I'm slow, I'm not as smart as my brother.' God wasn't having a bad day when he made you... If you don't love yourself in the right way, you can't love your neighbour. You can't be as good as you are supposed to be.

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

Love yourself no matter what!

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

I love who I am.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.