Welcome to your uplifting journey! In this collection, I’ve curated a some of my favourite self love quotes from thought leaders, poets, and philosophers, in the hope to inspire you to embrace yourself with love and kindness.
When you need a bit of encouragement during challenging times, or simply a dose of positivity to brighten your day, use these quotes to uplift and motivate you. I highly recommend printing them out or setting them as wallpaper on your phone so you can see them throughout the day. Give it a try and run your own experiment, but this trick has always been a lifesaver for me whenever I need a little self love reminder.
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Bible Self Love Quotes
The Bible is an endless source of inspiration. If you need a reminder that you are loved and cherished beyond measure just open its pages and let the verses speak to your heart.
A fulfilling and joyful life starts from within, but in the chaos of life it’s easy to lose sight of our self worth, flaws and imperfections included. Use these self love quotes as gentle reminders to extend love not only to yourself but also to those around you.
- “Love your neighbor as yourself.” – Mark 12:31
- “Love is always patient, love is always kind.” – 1 Corinthians 13:4
- “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” – Matthew 22:39
- “Love one another: just as I have loved you.” – John 13:34
- “The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” – Mark 12:31
- “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.” – Matthew 5:44
- “Let all that you do be done in love.” – 1 Corinthians 16:14
- “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” – John 13:34
- “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God.” – 1 John 4:7
- “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” – 1 Peter 4:8
- “And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.” – Colossians 3:14
- “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.” – Galatians 5:22
- “Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.” – 1 Corinthians 10:24
- “So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” – 1 Corinthians 13:13
- “For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.” – 2 Timothy 1:7
- “There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear.” – 1 John 4:18
- “So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.” – 1 John 4:16
- “Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.” – Philippians 2:4
- “But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves in the love of God.” – Jude 1:20-21
- “And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” – Romans 8:28
Self Love Quotes for Women
Here are some of my favorite self love quotes. I’ve actually printed a few and placed them around my house, so I’m constantly reminded to prioritize my own happiness first and everything else falls into line. They remind me that it’s perfectly okay to put myself first from time to time.
When you find yourself doubting or questioning your own life, turn to these quotes. They’ll gently remind you that you are enough, just as you are.
- “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” – Lalah Delia
- “You are your best thing.” – Toni Morrison
- “Her courage was her crown and she wore it like a queen.” – Atticus Poetry
- “I am mine before I am ever anyone else’s.” – Nayyirah Waheed
- “Fall in love with taking care of yourself. Mind, body, spirit.” – Unknown
- “You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.” – Sophia Bush
- “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.” – Steve Maraboli
- “Self-love is the greatest middle finger of all time.” – Unknown
- “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane von Furstenberg
- “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
- “She needed a hero, so that’s what she became.” – Unknown
- “Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz
- “Self-love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear.” – Beau Taplin
- “Be proud of who you are, and not ashamed of how someone else sees you.” – Unknown
- “I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become.” – Carl Jung
- “Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.” – Robert Holden
- “Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.” – Martha Beck
One Line Self Love Quotes
If you need a little boost, turn to these short, one line self love quotes for a burst of sunshine on a cloudy day. I see them as little love notes to myself reminding me to embrace the beautiful mess that I am.
- “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” – Mark Twain
- “Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.” – Unknown
- “The way you speak to yourself matters the most.” – Unknown
- “It’s not your job to like me; it’s mine.” – Byron Katie
- “Self-love is the source of all our other loves.” – Pierre Corneille
- “Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.” – Christian D. Larson
- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
- “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
Self Love Frida Kahlo Quotes
Whenever you need a reminder to embrace your own journey with love and compassion, turn to reading self love quotes by Frida Kahlo. Her words, same as her art, are raw, honest, and unapologetically authentic. Her words have always inspired me in my journey towards self-acceptance and empowerment.
- “I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.”
- “I paint flowers so they will not die.”
- “I don’t paint dreams or nightmares, I paint my own reality.”
- “Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?”
- “I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”
- “I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”
- “I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.”
- “I drank to drown my sorrows, but the damned things learned how to swim.”
- “I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.”
- “I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.”
- “I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.”
- “I paint flowers so they will not die.”
- “I am my own muse, I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.”
- “Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light.”
- “I hope the exit is joyful and I hope never to return.”
- “I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do.”
- “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
- “I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”
- “You deserve the best, the very best, because you are one of the few people in this lousy world who are honest to themselves, and that is the only thing that really counts.”
Self Love Quotes Buddha
Finding serenity in the midst of life’s chaos is not always easy, particularly when it comes to releasing self-criticism. However, these simple yet profound Buddha self love quotes remind us that true happiness begins with self-love and acceptance.
- “You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
- “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.”
- “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”
- “You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”
- “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.”
- “The mind is everything. What you think, you become.”
- “The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.”
- “Happiness does not depend on what you have or who you are. It solely relies on what you think.”
- “In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you.”
Self Love Quotes Rumi
When you need to reconnect with the essence of self-love, turn to these Rumi’s quotes. The simplicity of his words always have a way to speak directly to the heart. Here are a few quotes on practicing self love, awareness, acceptance, and embracing our flaws and imperfections as part of our unique beauty.
- “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
- “Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”
- “The wound is the place where the light enters you.”
- “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
- “The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along.”
- “Don’t be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him.”
- “You were a ruby in a world full of glass.”
- “Don’t be a beggar of love, be a donor of love. Beautiful people are not always good, but good people are always beautiful.”
- “The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.”
- “The moon stays bright when it doesn’t avoid the night.”
- “You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”
- “Don’t be a magician, be magic.”
- “Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
- “The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear.”
- “Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
- “What you seek is seeking you.”
- “You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.”
Self Love Quotes in Spanish
Lastly, check out these words celebrating self love and acceptance in Spanish. From timeless wisdom by famous authors to modern musings, these quotes talk about compassion, self confidence, and inner peace.
- “Ámate a ti mismo primero y todo lo demás caerá en su lugar.” – Lucille Ball
- “Aprender a quererse a uno mismo es el comienzo de un romance para toda la vida.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Ámate a ti mismo y todo caerá en su lugar.” – Buddha
- “Eres valioso y mereces todo el amor y la felicidad del mundo.”
- “Eres suficiente tal como eres. ¡Ámate y abraza tu singularidad!”
- “La única relación duradera que tendrás en toda tu vida es contigo mismo. ¡Haz que sea increíble!”
- “Cuida tu cuerpo. Es el único lugar que tienes para vivir.” – Jim Rohn
- “La manera en que te hablas a ti mismo afecta directamente tu estado de ánimo, tu actitud y tus acciones. ¡Háblate con amor!”
- “Tú vales más de lo que piensas. ¡Ámate y sé amable contigo mismo!”
- “Eres único y eso es tu superpoder. ¡Ámate y brilla!”
- “El amor propio es la mejor inversión que puedes hacer.”
- “No te compares con los demás. Eres único y eso es lo que te hace especial.”
- “El amor propio no es egoísta; es necesario para tu supervivencia y bienestar.”
- “No hay nadie más calificado para ser tú que tú mismo. ¡Ámate y sé auténtico!”
- “Aprender a amarte a ti mismo es el mayor amor de todos.”
- “Ámate lo suficiente como para crear una vida que te haga feliz.”
More Love Quotes, Messages & Wishes
If you’re looking for more inspiration when crafting your cards, make sure to explore this collection of card messages and thoughtful sentiments for some fresh ideas.
There’s something for everyone and I’m sure you’ll find great inspiration.
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- Poems for Mothers Day Cards
- I Love You Quotes and Images
- Bible Quotes on Mothers Love
- Love Letters to Him
- Bible Verses on Love
- Father’s Day Messages
- Father’s Day Quotes for Every Dad
- Grief Quotes
- Thanksgiving Prayers and Blessing
Free Valentine’s Heart Coloring Pages
Looking for adorable cards to pair with these self-love quotes? Check out the delightful collection of free coloring sheets on the Valentine’s heart coloring pages article.
Print them, add some colors, and then write down one of the quotes. They’ll make the perfect heartfelt gift!
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