Bell Hooks Quotes

You can only experience love if you have self love.

Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.

Fortunately, however, we no longer have to argue that self -love is not only necessary and good but that it also is a prerequisite for loving others.

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.

You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

I surround myself with people who really understand and love me. I think that's the best thing I can do.

The other thing is surrounding yourself with people that care for you. These are simple things, but they're powerful, and they've completely transformed who I am and how I perceive myself.

I hate diets. Restriction makes me feel rebellious. I find that I look my best when I feel my best, whatever that takes. For me, above all else, it means being around the people I want to be with.

People win medals in all shapes and sizes! And I can't help but say that finding a fiance who loves me unconditionally at any size has played a huge role in my body confidence.

The more we learn to love and respect ourselves, the more we will become attracted to people who will love and respect us and who we can safely love and respect.

Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.

If you don't love yourself, it's impossible for you to love others. You can't give away what you don't have.

If you're going to be stuck somewhere forever, you might as well be around good people!

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

I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.

We are all the best versions of ourselves when we have love and acceptance in our lives.

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

If an individual is able to love productively, he loves himself, too; if he can love only others, he cannot love at all.

If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.

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

We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.

As I love and approve of myself and others, my life gets better and better.

See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation - to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.