Melody Beattie Quotes

The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.

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

Treat yourself with love and respect, and you will attract people who show you love and respect.

The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.

If you don't have a healthy relationship with yourself, how can you with anyone else? Even if it's not healthy, I imagine it's a lot of fun. And healthy or not, I still think there can be a lot of love.

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.

Make a list of the people in your 'choir'... If you're not on your own list, then you're doing something wrong.

Self-love is for everyone and we all need it!

I wish that more people, especially young people, were taught about self-love at a younger age.

No one is perfect, and no one should be made to feel like they have to be perfect. It's nice that we all have unique qualities that make us different as athletes and humans. That's why it's so important to surround yourself with people who truly care about you.

Only be with somebody if they make you feel like the best version of yourself. You can't sacrifice yourself for anybody, you know?

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

Until I learned to love myself, I was never ever lovin' nobody else.

If you respect yourself and you love yourself, that's the only way anybody else is going to.

You can only experience love if you have self love.

I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect, because I like me.. I think I'm kind of cool.

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

I'm just a big believer in 'you must love yourself before you can love anybody else,' and I think for me that breeds the most inspired relationships.

Not to settle. If you're not happy with a person, leave. And wait until you find that one person who makes you feel good about yourself every single day and is not expecting you to change, but to grow.

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.

If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.

To love others you must first love yourself.

You've got to love yourself enough, not only so that others will be able to love you, but that you'll be able to love others.