Self-Love
INSPIRATION FOR SELF-LOVE/SELF-ESTEEM
‘True happiness … arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one’s self.’
Joseph Addison
'To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.'
Oscar Wilde
‘The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.’
Oscar Wilde
'The longest journey mankind undertakes, is the journey from the head to the heart.'
Sufi Proverb
'Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.'
Kurt Cobain
'To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.'
Kiekegaard
'I believe in Me,
Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our greatest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
As children do ... We are meant to shine.
As we let our Light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
Our presence automatically liberates others.'
Return to Love. Marianne Williamson.
'We need to realize how strong we are and that the more we love one another the more strength comes out. People are so afraid of their own power because they think they will hurt one another. But the more they hold back love the more they do hurt one another.'
James Twyman
'When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels, turning in the cages of our personality, and get into the forest again, we shall quiver with cold and fright, but things will happen to us so that we don't know ourselves.'
D H Lawrence
'The most self-destructive thought that any person can have is thinking that he or she is not in total control of his or her life.'
Roger Dawson
‘Your power to love is boundless.'
The Prophet. Kahlil Gibran.