Eugene Delacroix Quotes

If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Most unhappy people need to learn just one lesson: how to see themselves through the lens of genuine compassion, and treat themselves accordingly.

Self-love is the love of a man's own self, and of everything else for his own sake. It makes people idolaters to themselves, and tyrants to all the world besides.

Loving ourselves is the miracle cure we are all looking for.

We have to learn to be kind to ourselves. In the long run avoiding unpleasantness is a very unkind thing to do to yourself.

I think we women need to be kinder to ourselves. That we are just the way we are is enough.

God loves you and everything about you, so why beat up on your precious self?

My number one thing is be kind to yourself. We can't control what other people do, we can only control what we do.

Learning to love yourself is not going to happen overnight - the first step is trying to be kinder and more patient with yourself, and I understand that it takes time.

Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others.

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

Be to yourself as you would to your friend.

You can't love other people until you love yourself.

You have to love yourself before you can love anyone. I think that’s very, very important, no matter how old you are or what you’re doing. You have to be able to love yourself because that’s when things fall into place.

Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.

You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, 'cause if you're not a friend to yourself, you're an enemy to yourself and if someone's a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.

When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we treat ourselves at the time. Nothing is more dangerous than self-hate. Nothing makes it more difficult to heal or to find the grace of peace than self-attack and the agony of self-doubt.

But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.

Bottom line: If you love yourself, it will all work out.

In love, self-love is always at risk.

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

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.

Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves.