Melody Beattie Quotes

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

The most important relationship in your life is the relationship you have with yourself. Because no matter what happens, you will always be with yourself.

A man who is not a good friend to himself cannot be so to any one else.

My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.

Every day is a reminder to accept myself as I am.

They say you'll be blooming when you're in love; I agree, but what is important to bloom is taking care of yourself, too.

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.

Love yourself first and everything falls into line.

Friendship with oneself is all important.

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

First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one you have, like it or not, until the day you die-is with yourself.

I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.

The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.

The relationship that counts most in my life is the one I have with myself. I have a great, great, great relationship with myself, and it gets better and better as I get older. The other day, I was talking to Barry in the car and I said, 'I'm so glad I'm me!'

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

I can live with myself.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.

I have so much self-acceptance.

I think the best relationship you'll ever have is the one with yourself. That might even be the most important one.

Work hard on yourself; don't be hard on yourself.

The most important relationship we have in our lives is the relationship we have with ourselves, and we're not taught about it.

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.

Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.