I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.
You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.
No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.
We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.
How easy it is to be compassionate when it's yourself you see in trouble.
The root of compassion, is compassion for oneself.
Remember this: No one is looking at your imperfections; they're all too busy worrying about their own.
The main health hazard in the world today is people who don't love themselves.
Until I learned to love myself, I was never ever lovin' nobody else.
Who taught you to hate yourself?
There is so much in the world to hate, why hate yourself?
To love others you must first love yourself.
Loving others is easy when you love and accept yourself.
Good! Hang in there! It's normal! [Low self-esteem] Often it's a sign of intelligence (but don't let that go to your head haha)
Not even self-love can always be counted on for support.
If you cannot love yourself, you don't know even the taste of love or what love means.
I'm always talking about loving yourself and expressing yourself and learning how to love yourself. I'm still the same.
Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.
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.
In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. if someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.
Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.
As I learn to love myself, I recieve the love I desire from others.
I need you to love me, I don't like me, either, if that helps.
Lao Tzu says: "Accept yourself. Non-acceptance is the root of all the trouble." None of us accept ourselves. The more a person doesn't accept himself, the greater a mahatma he looks to others to be. We are our greatest enemy. If we had our way, we would cut ourselves to pieces in order to remove what was unacceptable.
