Nathaniel Branden Quotes

As you get older, it's always a process of self-love, learning how to really do that for yourself instead of trying to find it outside yourself.

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

The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth.

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.

You can only experience love if you have self love.

Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.

If you don't have self love you can never find it outside of yourself.

Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness.

Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.

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

You have to fall in love with yourself first, and if someone wants to join you, more power to them!

Friendship with oneself is all important.

Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

Loving yourself means making choices that allow you to care for the important person that you are.

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

Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.

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

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.

No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.

Until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

Self-love is the starting point for everything.

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.

Win or lose, I'll feel good about myself. That's what is important.

Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.