Barbara Deming Quotes

I learn something new about love every day. For example, loving yourself is just as important as loving other people.

Love other human beings as you would love yourself.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

We do not exist for ourselves alone, and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others.

If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.

Love yourself. Then find something to love beyond yourself.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.

If you wished to be loved, love.

People who care about each other enjoy doing things for one another. They don't consider it servitude.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.

There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe.

Love, and do what you like.

I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.

Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.

I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.

As long as you keep yourself in love with people, you can transcend time.

If you give your life as a wholehearted response to love, then love will wholeheartedly respond to you.

I see reflections of what I love about myself in the love and care I receive from my friends, family, and co-workers who, in turn, allow me to love and care about them.

First of all, you need to love yourself, 'cause that's the only way you're going to get by and be O.K. as an individual. But it's important to make other people feel loved because you never know what they're going through.

Sometimes you feel like the people who invest in hate are winning. Then you just want to talk about love and what it really means to love yourself.

I want everybody to love me because I want to love back.