Thomas Merton Quotes

To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.

You're able to love others, to give to others, and do for others by giving and doing for yourself first.

True self-love and social are the same.

It's only when we give to ourselves as passionately as we give of ourselves that we create the life we want and deserve.

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

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.

At the end of the day, you won't be happy until you love yourself.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company.

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

Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.

To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

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.

If I give more to myself, I can ask more from myself. Self-regard isn't selfish.

You can't make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good about yourself.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.

The first problem, of course, is that we haven't learned to love ourselves. That's the first problem. We can only give to another what we have to give. And if we have no love over here, we can't give it over there.

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.

Loving Others Starts with Loving Myself

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

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

Make yourself a priority. Fill yourself up so that you can give more to others.