Is self love the best love? If so how do you love yourself more, as you are?
Do you need a hug on the inside? Here are 26 inspiring self-love quotes to start loving yourself today. #SelfLove #LoveYourself #Quotes
Do you ever just need a hug on the inside? Deep down where no one can see.
Are you struggling to love yourself right now? Perhaps to even accept or admire who you are?
Maybe you feel inadequate, unworthy, and unwanted? It’s hard to admit at times that a lack of love from others, can impact how we feel about ourselves.
Whether you hate being single, in a relationship or free to mingle, self-love is about so much more than your relationship status.
The beginning of all things wonderful in your life is you simply loving yourself where you are at.
You can’t want more for yourself, believe in yourself, or even have confidence that everything that you can achieve your goals or dreams if you do not first love yourself!
Want to live a life you love? Start by loving yourself.
Ready to try new things, leave your comfort zone, and put yourself out there? Embrace all that you are.
Want to manifest love in your life? Begin by falling madly in love with you.
If you haven’t heard it in a while, or even at all, let me tell you (and please hear me when I say) that you are freaking fantastic! You’re wonderful, brilliant, beautiful and everything in between! Never forget that for a minute.
Here are 26 must-read self-love quotes and sayings to inspire your much-needed self-love life.
Fall in Love with Yourself Quotes
Do you love yourself? Here’s the perfect test of your self-love. When you look at yourself in the mirror, what do you see? Do you see the eyes you love, the features you think are adorable, perhaps your hair you love to style, or do you see flaws you can’t stand looking at? Do you look away or do you gaze into your gorgeous eyes? Stop trying to change yourself, and start falling in love with who you are right now. The following self-love quotes encourage you to fall in love with you.
“Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.” ― Byron Katie
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2. “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.” ― Robert Morley
“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” ― Gautama Buddha
4. “It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.” ― Mandy Hale
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5. “Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It is sanity.” – Katrina Mayer
6. “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” ― Charles Bukowski
Your Self-love is Powerful Quotes
Waiting for your epic love story? Popular culture would have you believe that to fall in love is the greatest love. But, that’s all fantasy, the strongest love starts with the love you have for yourself. To love yourself truly, wholly and unconditionally can change your life. It will mend broken places and strengthen every area of your life. This collection of self-love quotes speaks of the power of self-love.
7. “To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.” – Alan Cohen
“The use of love is to heal. When it flows without effort from the depth of the self, love creates health.” – Deepak Chopra
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9. “Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” – Louise L. Hay
10. “Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.” – Maya Angelou
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11. “When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits – anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.” – Kim McMillen
Love Yourself By Doing What You Love Quotes
Do you love your life? To love yourself is to make time for doing what you love. Yes, your life may not be perfect, but it doesn’t have to be for you to show yourself kindness by giving yourself what you need. Some might call it self-care or scheduling alone time, others will call it self-compassion, whatever it is, you owe it to yourself to find that joy. The following self-love quotes inspire us to not just ask yourself daily what you need, but also give it to yourself. Yes, even if you’re busy!
12. “Do you love yourself enough to be what you love yourself enough to want?” — Steve Maraboli
13. “When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.” – Jean Shinoda Bolen
“Self love is asking yourself what you need – everyday – and then making sure you receive it.” – Unknown
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15. “Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it.” – Thaddeus Golas
Quotes About Stop Hating and Hurting Yourself
Do you hate yourself? Are you hurting yourself? We’re not just talking about things like self-harm and intentionally hurting yourself, we’re also talking about subtle ways like negative self-talk. Every time your subconscious mind thinks negatively about yourself, you are hating yourself. Every time you give into your fears and tell yourself you’re a loser and you can’t do it, you’re hurting yourself. This collection of self-love quotes invites us to truly complete how we treat ourselves. Be gentle, you’re the only you, you have.
16. “Self-love seems so often unrequited.” – Anthony Powell
“Your greatest treasure hides behind your self-loathing. Love it out of hiding.” – Pamela Mills
18. “Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” ― Louise L. Hay
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19. “Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.” – Karolina Kurkova
“Your problem is you’re… too busy holding onto your unworthiness.” – Ram Dass
21. “The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.” – C. JoyBell C.
22. “The things we hate about ourselves aren’t more real than things we like about ourselves.” – Ellen Goodman
Practice Loving Self-Talk Quotes
How do you talk to yourself? Are you loving and kind, or harsh and hurtful? The thoughts you have about yourself are stronger than what anyone else thinks about you. Want to be successful? Start telling yourself that you are. Using positive affirmations and loving language you can have a healthy self-love life. The following self-love quotes encourage us to talk to ourselves with love, to use loving self-talk.
23. “Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” – Brené Brown
24. “There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.” – Brian Andreas
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” I celebrate myself, and I sing myself.” – Walt Whitman
26. “What are the most powerful words in the universe? The ones you use to talk to yourself.” – Karen Salsamsohn
Printable Self-Love Quotes
Don’t you just love these quotes? They provide the perfect reminder to just love yourself.
I’ve created 10 printable self-love quotes that you’ll just love.
This download comes with high-resolution, graphic quotes that are ready to print and post in your home or office.
Have a Full Self-Love Life
Sometimes we can be so hard ourselves, especially when we are just not where we want to be in life or something is taking a lot longer to come to pass.
Please, take it easy on yourself! No one is perfect, not even you. But our imperfections are what make us who we are.
Taking time for self-love is important!
Be kind to yourself, we are all works in progress. Love your faults and your failures, your “imperfections” are your perfections.
Speak lovingly to yourself, don’t forget to make time to do what you love and fall madly in love with yourself.
You are so worth loving!
What’s your favorite self-love quote?
Last Updated on July 12, 2021
Angel says
What great affirmations of self-love! We are always are worst critics and sometines it takes practice to love ourselves.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Nadalie says
We really can be! We all deserve and really need to just give ourselves love. <3
Thanks for commenting Angel,
Nadalie
jattu says
Aww this is exactly what my friend needed, so I sent it to her. Thank you so much for the free prints and the fantastic post 🙂
Nadalie says
My pleasure, Jattu! I’m sure she’ll LOVE them.
Thanks for sharing,
Nadalie
Melody Owen says
You have some of my favourite quotes and some new ones to me as well. Love it! My fav new quote:
“Loving yourself isn’t vanity. It is sanity.” – Katrina Mayer
Nadalie says
Hi Melody,
RIGHT – it’s such a simple quote, yet incredibly powerful one. Like when I first read it, I was literally just like “wooh, so true!”
Emily says
I love these quotes! Self love is so so important!
Nadalie says
Yay, so glad you LOVE them Emily!
Robin says
“When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits – anything that kept me small. My judgement called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.”
YES. THIS. So many good quotes here, but this is the one that resonates most with me!
Nadalie says
Hi Robin,
Isn’t it such an amazingly powerful quote!
My favourite “side-effect” of self-love is just how powerful it is in changing our lives.
Thanks for commenting,
Nadalie
Ashlee says
Thank you so much for putting this list of amazing quotes together!! I think everyone could use a reminder every once in awhile to love themselves!
Nadalie says
My pleasure Ashlee! We can always do with a bit more self-love right. <3
Brittany says
These are so good. So good to speak positivity to ourselves! Such great affirmations!
Nadalie says
Hi Brittany,
Yes, they really are! I started this post because I was in need of a little bit of positive talk, these have done wonders for me. <3
Pla says
It’s always nice to have positive affirmations around. Thanks for sharing!
Nadalie says
My pleasure, so glad you enjoyed them Pla!
Sue Dunlevie says
I love Bryan Katie and Louise Hay – I’ve seen both of them in person and they are so calm and relaxed all the time – even when speaking to a large crowd.
Thanks for the other ideas!
Sue
Nadalie says
Hi Sue,
Aren’t they just the best! OMG, I cannot believe that you’ve seen them, I’m so jealous.
My pleasure Sue, thanks for stopping by.
– Nadalie
Jaime Buckley says
Hello Sister Awesome =)
Ya know, Nadalie, I’m not against self-love, I’m really not. I was raised and still believe that it’s not about me…and that’s how I live my life, and see too many I know focused on self and not on service.
Now I’m not saying you think that way, because I think the example you set proves that…so I’m going to focus on another aspect of loving self here, and that comes from a personal spot in my own life.
I was convinced for most of my upbringing that God hated me.
When you love Jesus, God and everyone around you, it’s an odd and extremely painful place to be for a kid. To think your Savior loves you, but God only tolerates your existence….
Yeah…no clue how I got to that place.
If you knew my parents, it makes it EXTRA confusing, because I had an awesome family and upbringing, but there you have it.
Took meeting my wife, the most glorious woman I have ever met to this day…to learn that God loved me. I mean, how could someone like me…be loved by someone like Kathilynn, unless I was worth more than I believed?
SO, I’m going to say that loving yourself is VERY important…CRITICAL even, when you have a worn down or skewed belief system.
My favorite quote is “Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” – Brené Brown
THAT, Nadalie, is probably a ‘perfect’ quote…IMHO.
I adore you. Know that.
Your articles are inspiring.
They create good when they’re consumed…and I’ll keep shouting to folks that they need to get their backsides over here until I’m out of breath!!
…then I’ll start holding up signs.
Maybe sit along the freeway exits for you.
(Holds up cardboard sign: “Will Work If You Go To Itsallyouboo.com”)
Jaime Buckley
Your Biggest Fan
Nadalie says
Hello Sir Jaime,
Thank you so much for sharing your self-love journey with me. If you hadn’t, I probably would never have in turn shared my own.
My story is similar, but a lot of parts are in reverse.
As odd as it may seem, I did not always love myself and was not always such a HUGE fan girl for self-love. It really wasn’t until I became a Christian and started being around all these people who taught me about the Father’s love. And a lot of scriptures and personal experiences really instilled that I am love and worthy of being loved in me. For example, “You are beautifully and wonderfully made” (Psalm 139:14).
Maybe when I was younger (raised Catholic), I had an image of God in my mind where he was how you describe him. And the portrayal of Jesus was very much “Jesus loves you..”
Before this I did not feel loved or worthy of love. Things I won’t get into here… but words like those above changed me. I’d never been told anything like this in my life. I started to value myself and just embrace myself. Sure it took me like 10 years from then to now, to start this blog and accept that I am made this way, to encourage others, with my writing.
I am not married, and I am not in love. I don’t have someone who cherishes and in turn makes me feel loved. BUT, I’m sure that would be lovely! Clearly your wife’s love has been transformative in your life. =)
I think self-love needs more attention, because a lot of people don’t feel worthy until someone loves them. And that breaks my heart. My value is not tied or dependent on someone else loving me and seeing my awesomeness. To me, that’s an important message to share, because we live in a time where a lot of us are single and there is no shame in it. At least not for me.
And I really do believe that if you don’t love you, you can’t love another, or what you do, or your life and so on.
Anyhoo, I shall end here.
Thank you so much for the love Jaime, as always I cherish your comments.
YOUR biggest fan,
Nadalie
Jaime Buckley says
Ahhhh, Nadalie, you have absolutely shown the way to do this, IMO….the perfect balance.
Want you to know that I am SO grateful to have met you and even more so that we’re friends…you darling, wonderful little sister.
You keep being you and I’ll keep bragging about you wherever I go =).
Let’s team up with love & friendship and change the world.
Sound like a plan?
You show them the self-love and I’ll knock ’em out with “YOU ARE MORE THAN YOU THINK YOU ARE!”
I’m gonna make a T-Shirt about this, too.
– Jaime
Nadalie says
UMM YES, it sounds like the best plan I’ve ever heard. The world will not know what hit them.
& OMG YES, can we please make t-shirts!
Nothing is ever official until t-shirts are made. haha!
*big smile*
Me too! I’m sure you get this alllll the time (because you are awesome), but you are such a delight! I think the connections we forge in this program really make it special.
Thanks, Sir Jaime!
Jaime Buckley says
I’m setting up a shirt shop and trying to get the code right for my blog….using the shirt service Sue recommended…so it’ll be very, very soon!
I’m thinking something like: “Of COURSE I’m cool….I know NADALIE from ItsAllYouBoo.com!”
Pamela says
Thanks for such inspiration. We all need this for the times that we forget.
Nadalie says
Yay! Thanks Pamela. <3
Sheri says
Love the quotes and the graphics. I blog about positive affirmations and self development/improvement so this is great to see.
Nadalie says
Hi Sheri,
I’m oh so glad that you LOVE them. Woot, can’t wait to see you use them.
Thanks,
Nadalie
Tracy Lynn says
What a great reminder of how important happiness is. Once we learn to love who we are, our inner peace will have a profound effect on others. If we talk to ourselves with love then we can’t help but talk to those around us the same way.
Come from a place of love and you will put forth for others to enjoy. A smile is worth a thousand words, I smile because I am happy both in and out. 🙂
Nadalie says
Hello dearest Tracy,
It’s crazy how often some people forget about their happiness. Nothing is greater for our health and happiness than like you put it, our inner peace! I believe it. I’ve experienced it, it’s changed me.
Aww, I love that. Here’s to smiling on the inside and out!
Hugs,
Nadalie
Patty says
Love all of this, especially 7 and 13. I think people feel guilty for thinking about themselves but there is a difference between what your teaching here and being selfish. Thanks for making it clear!
Nadalie says
Hi Patty,
I LOVE 7, sooo good, it just warms your heart. Love it. We really shouldn’t feel guilty, we deserve it. <3
Talk soon,
Nadalie
Rebecca says
Hi Nadalie,
I love the simplicity of these quotes. The message is so clear by sometimes so easily forgotten. Thank you, I’m going to use some of these!
Nadalie says
Hello Rebecca,
Thanks girl, so very happy that you love them. They are all so powerful, you read them once, they will echo through your mind for your entire life. #speakingfromexperience.
– Nadalie
Allison Stephens says
I love this! I am all about loving yourself from the inside out. The freebie is also amaaaazing! Thanks for the inspiration.
Nadalie says
Hi Allison,
WOOT! No greater feeling than having someone say they love your post.
Share the self-love! <3
– Nadalie
Caroline Thompson says
“Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.” – Brené Brown
I love Brené Brown!! I need to print some of these quotes out and stick them on my mirror haha.
Nadalie says
Hi Caroline,
Isn’t that one just sooo good. I love that quote – to me it’s like chocolate cake.
That’s a great idea! I like using window markers to write on my mirrors. A nice throwback to college days.
– Nadalie
Meenal says
Love it
Nadalie says
<3 thanks Meenal!
Dylan Cutler says
These are beautiful. I particularly love Brene Brown (pretty much everything she writes).
Nadalie says
I am convinced that Brene has some of the BEST quotes ever. Each is soooo deep, yet simple at the same time. She just makes profound sense. It’s so beautiful.
Thanks for commenting Dylan!
Brittany Ritcher says
Nadalie! I feel so warm and fuzzy inside after reading these! My favorite is a tie between #5 (not vanity…sanity! love it!) and of course, my girl Brene Brown at #23. I want to be her “when I grow up” 🙂 Surprising to me to see so many self-love quotes from the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Walt Whitman! Thanks for the Saturday boost! xox
Nadalie says
AWW, yay Brittany!
Isn’t that the best feeling. Two of the best quotes right there. Brene Brown, nothing put magic from her words.
hehe – ya know I had to add a few surprising ones in here.
Happy self-love,
Nadalie
Patti says
Love these quotes! I agree it is important to love yourself. If you can’t love yourself then how can you expect others to love you?
Nadalie says
Isn’t that the truth! I really do believe that the best thing anyone can do for themselves is to just love themselves. <3
Nicki says
I found this post at exactly the right time. I needed to read these today. Thanks for collecting them all together <3
Nadalie says
Hi Nicki.
So happy that you found my post at the right time.
You are so welcome,
Nadalie
Nancy says
This is awesome Nadalie! Just found your blog and am loving it!
Nadalie says
WOOT! Happy to be loved, I mean for the blog love. <3
Thanks Nancy.
Janett at Lifestyle Inspire says
These were such amazing quotes! I will definitely be saving them 🙂 Thank you so much for sharing these with us. It’s always nice to be reminded to have self-love… Your blog is stunning by the way!
Thank you so much,
Janett 🙂
Nadalie says
Hello Janett,
Aren’t they just fabulous? I said to myself when I was writing this post, that every single one had to give me an amazing feeling when I read it. I’m so glad that that comes across.
Thanks love <3
Elise Cohen Ho says
This is wonderful. I am definitely sharing. From time to time, everyone needs a bit of a reminder to love themselves.
Nadalie says
We sure do!
Thanks for sharing Elise!
Shauna Walker says
Awe I love these quotes! So powerful!
Nadalie says
WOOT! Happy you love them!
Norine says
I love these! I just wrote a similar post, and it just shows how many different quotes there are, that we only overlapped one. I love the idea of the downloadable printables.
Nadalie says
Hi Norine,
There are sooo many. I think I cut down my list of 200+ that I found into these 26. I tried to choose some less popular, yet still powerful ones.
Glad you love them, happy sharing!
– Nadalie
Kasia says
These are some lovely quotes. I’ve pinned the article to my Pinterest for others to get some inspiration. Thanks for sharing these.
Nadalie says
Thanks for sharing Kasia! <3
shannon says
I am definitely my own worst critic and have set my own positive affirmations for the year. These are some great additions. Thanks for sharing.
Nadalie says
Hi Shannon,
That’s a fantastic idea to create a collection of positive affirmations. I might use that for a blog post. Hope you don’t mind. <3
– Nadalie
Aurora says
These are great! Self-love is so important and yet it can be so hard to do.
Nadalie says
Isn’t that the truth. It’s one of the hardest habits to adopt. I say habit because you have to keep doing it. Wake up every day and choose to love yourself.
Thanks for your comment Aurora!
Lanae Bond says
Love the quotes you provided! A lot of people need to know that there is nothing wrong with loving yourself!
Nadalie says
There certainly isn’t! There’s nothing more natural, yet somehow society makes it seem not so important.
Thanks for stopping by!
kerona says
i am loving your blog i thought of sharing inspiring quotes for others to download but i thought no one would download or be interested so i just didn’t do it and seeing you do it has inspired me to give it a try one day
Nadalie says
Thanks Kerona for the blog love!
Just do it. You never know if anyone will be interested if you don’t try. I just figured it’d be a good way to share the self-love.
Miranda Nahmias says
All of these are beautiful quotes. I especially love the graphics you made for some of them!
Nadalie Bardo says
Thanks so much Miranda! Omg I love making them, I have to stop myself from making them for every single quote lol
Gina says
Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror that one of my favorite quote thanks for inspiring me
Nadalie Bardo says
Isn’t t just fantastic! One of my favourites too. Gives me chills.
self development says
The world is changing all the time. Even if you do nothing you will change by default as the world turns. There is no escape from this.
It's All You Boo says
Hey Self Development,
Agreed, the world is changing all the time and change is inevitable. Thanks for reading these inspiring love yourself quotes.
shivangi sharma says
self love is the best form of love.
no one can beat it
It's All You Boo says
Hey Shivangi,
Agreed, self-love is definitely the best form of love. Thanks for reading these inspirng love yourself quotes.
Kasia says
Awe, I love all those quotes. It’s really important how you talk to yourself and repeating something like this is really healthy. Thanks for sharing.
It's All You Boo says
Hi Kasia,
I’m happy you love these inspiring love yourself quotes. Thank you!
laura says
these are awesome quotes self care is so healthly. give love to yourself is refreshing.
It's All You Boo says
We have to love ourselves first should be our mindset! Thanks Laura!
Mimi says
I love the Katrina Mayer ‘s one, I definitely agree with her
It's All You Boo says
We should always love ourselves first and foremost! Thanks Mimi!
Lisa says
Everyone could use some self love. Very nice! I love these self-love quotes!
It's All You Boo says
I’m so glad you love these love yourself quotes, Lisa! We should always love ourselves first!
Sol says
These quotes are all touching and inspiring, we all need to love ourselves too!
It's All You Boo says
Hi Sol,
True! We should always accept and admire who we are. Thank You!
Heather says
So many great quotes! I especially love the one about looking for the love of your life in the mirror!
It's All You Boo says
We should always be someone worth loving by loving ourselves first. Happy you love these quotes!