Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

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

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

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

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

Unless you love yourself, you can't love anybody. Be selfish.

If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.

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.

Friendship with oneself is all important.

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 can only experience love if you have self love.

A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.

You can love other people only to the degree that you've come to love and accept yourself

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

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

You've got to love yourself first, and until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

To love others you must first love yourself.

But what love got to do with it when you don't love yourself ?

When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.

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

You can't let someone else lower your self-esteem, because that's what it is - self-esteem. You need to first love yourself before you have anybody else love you.

If you can't love yourself, you can't love other people.

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.

If you want to love others, I think you should love yourself first.

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!