Self Love Self Care Quotes

“Self love
is the beginning
of all true love.”
― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, The Wealth Reference Guide: An American Classic

“I miss your smile, but I miss mine even more.”
― Kid Cudi

“Self-love is the practice of understanding, embracing, and showing compassion for yourself. Self-love involves nurturing your entire being – that means taking care of yourself on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels. When engaging in self-love, we also work to forgive ourselves, accept our flaws, and embrace our inner demons. Contrary to popular belief, self-love isn’t just a blind adoration of our strengths, it’s also an embrace of our weaknesses and shadows.”
― Aletheia Luna

“Self love can piece back what others tore
apart. - Nason Ray”
― Linda Greyman, Soul Works - The Minds Journal Collection

“Treat yourself like the most awesome superstar. You are worth it.”
― Hiral Nagda

“Love, respect, and value yourself. Your mental, emotional, and physical health are important. Make yourself a priority and know that it’s okay! Don’t feel guilty for taking care of yourself, first. Your worth is invaluable… Believe it, own, it, and protect it! Make a commitment to celebrate yourself, and to live life fearlessly. You matter!”
― Stephanie Lahart

“It's okay to not be okay as it's okay to be okay. Admitting when you are suffering is just as valuable as admitting when you are at a good place.
Everything is valid.”
― Monika Chhetri

“Self-love is an act of holy disruption.

To love yourself in a world that profits directly from your self-loathing is the ultimate subversion of all that seeks to keep you tame.

We've been taught to hate all that we are (our softness, our fierceness, our not-enoughness, our too-muchness, our tender flesh, our hard bones, our voices, our insatiable hunger, our yearning for more, our aging, our youth, our ugly, our beauty, our all) so that we can be packaged into a commodity that sells us back to ourselves.

Our self-hatred is, in many ways, one of the pillars that capitalism and the patriarchy rely on to keep us small and contained, caged and corralled, safe and quietly in place.

To fall headfirst into a lifelong love affair with our purpose, our passion, our capacity, for pleasure, with the sound of our yes and the tenor of our no. With the reflection in the mirror. With the rich inner landscape of our fumbling and messy aliveness - this threatens the status quo.

As Naomi Wolf said, "Our appetites DO need to be controlled if things are to stay in place."

I don't know about you, but I'm at all not interested or invested in keeping things in place, in maintaining the status quo, in propping up a paradigm that's been trembling on its last legs for far too long.

I don't want to have to tamp down my desire, to contain the embers of my fire, to minimize the heat of my burn.

I want to love myself enough to always ask for more, and then I want to love myself harder so that I can expand wide enough to receive it when it comes. And no, I don’t think this is easy. Or simple. Or even always gentle.

But you loving you?
Like really, really loving you?
It subverts the whole damn thing.
It disrupts the narrative.
It flips the script.

It’s a way to reclaim all that has been taken.
To demand your seat at the table.
To call your wholeness home.”
― Jeanette LeBlanc

“Untangling the impacts of autoimmune disease was just the beginning for me,” Gaylord writes. “It demanded an evolution of my mind, heart, soul, and body. My reawakening took over a decade. Yours will not.”
― Valentina Gaylord

“Love, respect, and value yourself. Your mental, emotional, and physical health are important. Make yourself a priority and know that it’s okay! Don’t feel guilty for taking care of yourself first. Your worth is invaluable… Believe it, own it, and protect it! Make a commitment to celebrate yourself and to live life fearlessly. You matter!”
― Stephanie Lahart