self-love

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
ec83719	Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.	defiant freedom inspirational-attitude inspirational-quotes life-and-living inspiring inspirational self-belief self-love society self-worth	C. JoyBell C.
31f4cad	When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.	self-awareness self-love self-confidence self-esteem	Jodi Picoult
dfa01cc	The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.	belief-in-self self-knowledge self-awareness inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life living life inspirational believe-in-yourself self-belief self-love	C. JoyBell C.
e57731b	The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too! When you wake up in the morning, you are with yourself, laying in bed at night you are with yourself, walking down the street in the sunlight you are with yourself.What kind of person do you want to walk down the street with? What kind of person do you want to wake up in the morning with? What kind of person do you want to see at the end of the day before you fall asleep? Because that person is yourself, and it's your responsibility to be that person you want to be with. I know I want to spend my life with a person who knows how to let things go, who's not full of hate, who's able to smile and be carefree. So that's who I have to be.	learning self-awareness inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living inspiring life inspirational inspirational-living self-belief self-love growth	C. JoyBell C.
68bb987	Dare to love yoursel	angel-poems classic-books inspiring-authors inspiring-words poetry joy inspirational-quotes spirituality love inspirational famous-quotes poem-in-your-pocket-day positive-motivation classic-quotes national-poetry-month haikus rainbows rainbow self-motivation personal-growth gold self-love grace creative-vision psychotherapy haiku self-respect self-esteem	Author-Poet Aberjhani
9b1a3e9	How would your life be different if...You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day...You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others	motivational life inspirational opinions self-love self-empowerment choices self-esteem	Steve Maraboli
21c973e	Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.	attitude-toward-life letting-go inspiration inspirational-quotes life-lessons life inspirational believe-in-yourself wasting-time self-love values	Turcois Ominek
d874fc4	HO	perfection inspirational perfectionism body-image self-love eating-disorders	Ellen Hopkins
8136d91	A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.	self-love	Haruki Murakami
b4e44d0	The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.	relationship inspirational self-love	Steve Maraboli
7d2740f	It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.	self-love	James Baldwin
5b24af7	A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified, which is the basis of female identification. If a woman loves her own body, she doesn't grudge what other women do with theirs; if she loves femaleness, she champions its rights. It's true what they say about women: Women insatiable. We greedy. Our appetites do need to be controlled if things are to stay in place. If the world were ours too, if we believed we could get away with it, we ask for more love, more sex, more money, more commitment to children, more food, more care. These sexual, emotional, and physical demands begin to extend to social demands: payment for care of the elderly, parental leave, childcare, etc. The force of female desire would be so great that society would truly have to reckon with what women want, in bed and in the world.	equality feminism beauty body-image sexual-violence cosmetic-surgery diet-industry fashion-industry mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery cosmetics self-love images marketing pornography society culture double-standards magazines sexuality eating-disorders self-esteem aging	Naomi Wolf
8891e87	"One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others. There was a time when I felt lousy about my over-forty body, saw myself as too fat, too this, or too that. Yet I fantasized about finding a lover who would give me the gift of being loved as I am. It is silly, isn't it, that I would dream of someone else offering to me the acceptance and affirmation I was withholding from myself. This was a moment when the maxim "You can never love anybody if you are unable to love yourself" made clear sense. And I add, "Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself."	love inspirational self-acceptance self-love	Bell Hooks
6e305ce	You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.	lies beauty inspirational self-love	Steve Maraboli
796d6a4	We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.	acceptance-of-oneself fear self-awareness trust inspiration love inspirational self-acceptance self-love awareness vulnerability power surrender	Eric Micha'el Leventhal
59810fd	People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness.	kindness inspirational self-love generosity	Sanaya Roman
50c72ab	In your own life it's important to know how spectacular you are.	inspirational self-love self-empowerment self-esteem	Steve Maraboli
b4e0ff3	The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.	love self-love women-s-strength	Bell Hooks
e99c186	She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.	love the-god-of-small-things self-acceptance self-love	Arundhati Roy
ac09932	The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away. I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.	dance confidence babies groove one-hundred-demons lynda-barry dancing grandma self-love growing-up demons cool stupid	Lynda Barry
29af0de	Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment and move on.	violence futility life love labor self-love growth resurrection	Bell Hooks
048f24e	Because we were treated neglectfully and abusively in our young years--when we most needed self-love to be mirrored--it was difficult to hold onto...We take up the challenge of learning to love ourselves, through our highs & our lows, when we are finding acceptance from others and when we are being closed out and rejected.	love-yourself child-abuse-survivors child-neglect emotional-neglect self-love-quotes recovery-from-abuse healing-from-abuse child-abuse healing-insights self-acceptance healing self-love emotional-abuse neglect	Maureen Brady
eb82e10	As more people have found the courage to break through shame and speak about woundedness in their lives, we are now subjected to a mean-spirited cultural response, where all talk of woundedness is mocked. The belittling of anyone's attempt to name a context within which they were wounded, were made a victim, is a form of shaming. It is psychological terrorism. Shaming breaks our hearts. All individuals who are genuinely seeking well-being within a healing context realize that it is important to that process not to make being a victim a stance of pride or a location from which to simply blame others. We need to speak our shame and our pain courageously in order to recover. Addressing woundedness is not about blaming others; however, it does allow individuals who have been, and are, hurt to insist on accountability and responsibility both from themselves and from those who were the agents of their suffering as well as those who bore witness. Constructive confrontation aids our healing.	pain responsibility honesty love healing-shame hurting-heart wounds-to-the-heart discussion wounds confrontation woundedness wounded self-love hurting	bell hooks
8336e29	If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.	inspire happiness motivate medications holistic-health passages-ventura substance-abuse passages-malibu self-care self-love balance therapy	Chris Prentiss
0d2ece0	Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering a critical faculty--or indeed any faculty whatever, unless it is one of induced enthusiasm for a plausible consensus President. (We shall see whether it counts as progress for the same parrots to learn a new word.) And my own cohort, the left, shared in the general dispiriting move towards apolitical, atonal postmodernism. Regarding something magnificent, like the long-overdue and still endangered South African revolution (a jagged fit in the supposedly smooth pattern of axiomatic progress), one could see that Ariadne's thread had a robust reddish tinge, and that potential citizens had not all deconstructed themselves into Xhosa, Zulu, Cape Coloured or 'Eurocentric'; had in other words resisted the sectarian lesson that the masters of apartheid tried to teach them. Elsewhere, though, it seemed all at once as if competitive solipsism was the signifier of the 'radical'; a stress on the salience not even of the individual, but of the trait, and from that atomization into the lump of the category. Surely one thing to be learned from the lapsed totalitarian system was the unwholesome relationship between the cult of the masses and the adoration of the supreme personality. Yet introspective voyaging seemed to coexist with dull group-think wherever one peered about among the formerly 'committed'. Traditionally then, or tediously as some will think, I saw no reason to discard the Orwellian standard in considering modern literature. While a sort of etiolation, tricked out as playfulness, had its way among the non-judgemental, much good work was still done by those who weighed words as if they meant what they said. Some authors, indeed, stood by their works as if they had composed them in solitude and out of conviction. Of these, an encouraging number spoke for the ironic against the literal mind; for the generously interpreted interest of all against the renewal of what Orwell termed the 'smelly little orthodoxies'--tribe and Faith, monotheist and polytheist, being most conspicuous among these new/old disfigurements. In the course of making a film about the decaffeinated hedonism of modern Los Angeles, I visited the house where Thomas Mann, in another time of torment, wrote . My German friends were filling the streets of Munich and Berlin to combat the recrudescence of the same old shit as I read: The path to this concept of enlightenment is not to be found in the pursuit of self-pity, or of self-love. Of course to be merely a political animal is to miss Mann's point; while, as ever, to be an apolitical animal is to leave fellow-citizens at the mercy of Ideolo'. For the sake of argument, then, one must never let a euphemism or a false consolation pass uncontested. The truth seldom lies, but when it does lie it lies somewhere in between.	enlightenment progress irony lies socialism literature humanism politics faith religion science truth apoliticism berlin bought-priesthood cape-coloureds eurocentricism george-hw-bush german-people groupthink left-wing-politics margaret-thatcher munich personality-politics polytheism potus radical-politics tribalism xhosa-people zulu-people ronald-reagan sectarianism monotheism solipsism argument critical-thinking self-pity self-love south-africa totalitarianism journalism right-wing-politics george-orwell soviet-union united-states conviction orthodoxy los-angeles film individualism atheism hedonism thomas-mann populism russia communism postmodernism cold-war germany literary-criticism euphemism	Christopher Hitchens
90af93e	I smiled, sipped deliciously at my drink, and made a new rule for myself: if life hands you a compliment, take it.	self-awareness self-love self-esteem	James Patterson
096ea1b	I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that.	literature feminism communion self-love	bell hooks
a2bd562	Before and after the funeral I never ceased to cry and be miserable, but it makes me ashamed when I think back on that sadness of mine, seeing that always in it was an element of self-love - now a desire to show that I prayed more than any one else, now concern about the impression I was producing on others, now an aimless curiosity which caused me to observe Mimi's cap or the faces of those around me. I despised myself for not experiencing sorrow to the exclusion of everything else, and I tried to conceal all other feelings: this made my grief insincere and unnatural. Moreover, I felt a kind of enjoyment in knowing that I was unhappy and I tried to stimulate my sense of unhappiness, and this interest in myself did more than anything else to stifle real sorrow in me.	unhappiness grief youth sorrow death tolstoy self-love funeral childhood	Leo Tolstoy
20c5737	I don't see myself very clearly. Then look at the people who love you...Look into their eyes and see what they're seeing; that's all you need to know yourself.	self-love self-esteem	Armistead Maupin
dd8f664	And she told you something about yourself you really ought to know: that you're beautiful, and worth loving.	self-love	Tamora Pierce
962cbc4	Above all, avoid lying, especially lying to yourself. Keep watching out for your lies, watch for them every hour, every minute. Also avoid disgust, both for others and yourself: whatever strikes you as disgusting within yourself is cleansed by the mere fact that you notice it. Avoid fear, too, although fear is really only a consequence of lies. Never be afraid of your petty selfishness when you try to achieve love and don't be too alarmed if you act badly on occasion.	lying lies fear love self-love disgust selfishness	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
cd6e771	The stars are in your favor, darling, you can't be horrible. Nope, they won't let you.	stars self-love	Suki Kim
187a648	"At first, I was scared to be alone. No routines. No rules. Just me. But I think..." Taylor wiped a tear away. "I think I was always in the jungle. Before. It was always there. I think I had to come out here to find the answer." "And what did you find?" "I love myself. They make it so hard for us to love ourselves." Taylor stared off into the dark. Her face gleamed with tears. Snot ran over her lips. "The judges won't like that answer." "Nobody's judging you." Taylor choked on a sob. "Always," she whispered."	teen-girls self-love	Libba Bray
6f9e074	I choose to let positive attitudes lighten my being today.	incest-healing inner-child-healing new-perception positve-attitude soul-journey painful-past self-love	Maureen Brady
3d76d0d	Only me. It had always only been me. I'd just needed to believe in her. In me.	self-love paranatural paranormal self-esteem supernatural	Meg Cabot
461acad	I saw the apartment almost as a sanatorium, a hospice clinic for my own recovery. I painted the walls in the warmest colors I could find and bought myself flowers every week, as if I were visiting myself in the hospital.	self-love home	Elizabeth Gilbert
725f77b	Never, ever let anyone tell you that who you are is wrong. It's okay to be gay. Or straight. Or bisexual. It's also okay to be asexual, demisexual, pansexual, or aromantic. You do you, and if anyone gives you grief for that, remember one thing: You are exactly the way you're supposed to be.	self-love	T.J. Klune

ec83719

Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.

defiant freedom inspirational-attitude inspirational-quotes life-and-living inspiring inspirational self-belief self-love society self-worth

C. JoyBell C.

31f4cad

When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't.

self-awareness self-love self-confidence self-esteem

Jodi Picoult

dfa01cc

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.

belief-in-self self-knowledge self-awareness inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life living life inspirational believe-in-yourself self-belief self-love

C. JoyBell C.

e57731b

The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too! When you wake up in the morning, you are with yourself, laying in bed at night you are with yourself, walking down the street in the sunlight you are with yourself.What kind of person do you want to walk down the street with? What kind of person do you want to wake up in the morning with? What kind of person do you want to see at the end of the day before you fall asleep? Because that person is yourself, and it's your responsibility to be that person you want to be with. I know I want to spend my life with a person who knows how to let things go, who's not full of hate, who's able to smile and be carefree. So that's who I have to be.

learning self-awareness inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living living inspiring life inspirational inspirational-living self-belief self-love growth

C. JoyBell C.

68bb987

Dare to love yoursel

angel-poems classic-books inspiring-authors inspiring-words poetry joy inspirational-quotes spirituality love inspirational famous-quotes poem-in-your-pocket-day positive-motivation classic-quotes national-poetry-month haikus rainbows rainbow self-motivation personal-growth gold self-love grace creative-vision psychotherapy haiku self-respect self-esteem

Author-Poet Aberjhani

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How would your life be different if...You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day...You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others

motivational life inspirational opinions self-love self-empowerment choices self-esteem

Steve Maraboli

21c973e

Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.

attitude-toward-life letting-go inspiration inspirational-quotes life-lessons life inspirational believe-in-yourself wasting-time self-love values

Turcois Ominek

d874fc4

HO

perfection inspirational perfectionism body-image self-love eating-disorders

Ellen  Hopkins

8136d91

A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else.

self-love

Haruki Murakami

b4e44d0

The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.

relationship inspirational self-love

Steve Maraboli

7d2740f

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I'd been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

self-love

James Baldwin

5b24af7

A consequence of female self-love is that the woman grows convinced of social worth. Her love for her body will be unqualified, which is the basis of female identification. If a woman loves her own body, she doesn't grudge what other women do with theirs; if she loves femaleness, she champions its rights. It's true what they say about women: Women insatiable. We greedy. Our appetites do need to be controlled if things are to stay in place. If the world were ours too, if we believed we could get away with it, we ask for more love, more sex, more money, more commitment to children, more food, more care. These sexual, emotional, and physical demands begin to extend to social demands: payment for care of the elderly, parental leave, childcare, etc. The force of female desire would be so great that society would truly have to reckon with what women want, in bed and in the world.

equality feminism beauty body-image sexual-violence cosmetic-surgery diet-industry fashion-industry mass-culture objectification plastic-surgery cosmetics self-love images marketing pornography society culture double-standards magazines sexuality eating-disorders self-esteem aging

Naomi Wolf

8891e87

"One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others. There was a time when I felt lousy about my over-forty body, saw myself as too fat, too this, or too that. Yet I fantasized about finding a lover who would give me the gift of being loved as I am. It is silly, isn't it, that I would dream of someone else offering to me the acceptance and affirmation I was withholding from myself. This was a moment when the maxim "You can never love anybody if you are unable to love yourself" made clear sense. And I add, "Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself."

love inspirational self-acceptance self-love

Bell Hooks

6e305ce

You are beautiful. Know this. Anyone who tells you otherwise is simply lying. You are beautiful.

lies beauty inspirational self-love

Steve Maraboli

796d6a4

We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.

acceptance-of-oneself fear self-awareness trust inspiration love inspirational self-acceptance self-love awareness vulnerability power surrender

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

59810fd

People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness.

kindness inspirational self-love generosity

Sanaya Roman

50c72ab

In your own life it's important to know how spectacular you are.

inspirational self-love self-empowerment self-esteem

Steve Maraboli

b4e0ff3

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

love self-love women-s-strength

Bell Hooks

e99c186

She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.

love the-god-of-small-things self-acceptance self-love

Arundhati Roy

ac09932

The groove is so mysterious. We're born with it and we lose it and the world seems to split apart before our eyes into stupid and cool. When we get it back, the world unifies around us, and both stupid and cool fall away. I am grateful to those who are keepers of the groove. The babies and the grandmas who hang on to it and help us remember when we forget that any kind of dancing is better than no dancing at all.

dance confidence babies groove one-hundred-demons lynda-barry dancing grandma self-love growing-up demons cool stupid

Lynda Barry

29af0de

Women are often belittled for trying to resurrect these men and bring them back to life and to love. They are in a world that would be even more alienated and violent if caring women did not do the work of teaching men who have lost touch with themselves how to love again. This labor of love is futile only when the men in question refuse to awaken, refuse growth. At this point it is a gesture of self-love for women to break their commitment and move on.

violence futility life love labor self-love growth resurrection

Bell Hooks

048f24e

Because we were treated neglectfully and abusively in our young years--when we most needed self-love to be mirrored--it was difficult to hold onto...We take up the challenge of learning to love ourselves, through our highs & our lows, when we are finding acceptance from others and when we are being closed out and rejected.

love-yourself child-abuse-survivors child-neglect emotional-neglect self-love-quotes recovery-from-abuse healing-from-abuse child-abuse healing-insights self-acceptance healing self-love emotional-abuse neglect

Maureen Brady

eb82e10

As more people have found the courage to break through shame and speak about woundedness in their lives, we are now subjected to a mean-spirited cultural response, where all talk of woundedness is mocked. The belittling of anyone's attempt to name a context within which they were wounded, were made a victim, is a form of shaming. It is psychological terrorism. Shaming breaks our hearts. All individuals who are genuinely seeking well-being within a healing context realize that it is important to that process not to make being a victim a stance of pride or a location from which to simply blame others. We need to speak our shame and our pain courageously in order to recover. Addressing woundedness is not about blaming others; however, it does allow individuals who have been, and are, hurt to insist on accountability and responsibility both from themselves and from those who were the agents of their suffering as well as those who bore witness. Constructive confrontation aids our healing.

pain responsibility honesty love healing-shame hurting-heart wounds-to-the-heart discussion wounds confrontation woundedness wounded self-love hurting

bell hooks

8336e29

If you examine your motive for doing anything, you'll soon discover that your reason is that you believe it will make you happy.

inspire happiness motivate medications holistic-health passages-ventura substance-abuse passages-malibu self-care self-love balance therapy

Chris Prentiss

0d2ece0

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went into a protracted swoon during the Reagan-Bush-Thatcher decade, and shows scant sign of recovering a critical faculty--or indeed any faculty whatever, unless it is one of induced enthusiasm for a plausible consensus President. (We shall see whether it counts as progress for the same parrots to learn a new word.) And my own cohort, the left, shared in the general dispiriting move towards apolitical, atonal postmodernism. Regarding something magnificent, like the long-overdue and still endangered South African revolution (a jagged fit in the supposedly smooth pattern of axiomatic progress), one could see that Ariadne's thread had a robust reddish tinge, and that potential citizens had not all deconstructed themselves into Xhosa, Zulu, Cape Coloured or 'Eurocentric'; had in other words resisted the sectarian lesson that the masters of apartheid tried to teach them. Elsewhere, though, it seemed all at once as if competitive solipsism was the signifier of the 'radical'; a stress on the salience not even of the individual, but of the trait, and from that atomization into the lump of the category. Surely one thing to be learned from the lapsed totalitarian system was the unwholesome relationship between the cult of the masses and the adoration of the supreme personality. Yet introspective voyaging seemed to coexist with dull group-think wherever one peered about among the formerly 'committed'. Traditionally then, or tediously as some will think, I saw no reason to discard the Orwellian standard in considering modern literature. While a sort of etiolation, tricked out as playfulness, had its way among the non-judgemental, much good work was still done by those who weighed words as if they meant what they said. Some authors, indeed, stood by their works as if they had composed them in solitude and out of conviction. Of these, an encouraging number spoke for the ironic against the literal mind; for the generously interpreted interest of all against the renewal of what Orwell termed the 'smelly little orthodoxies'--tribe and Faith, monotheist and polytheist, being most conspicuous among these new/old disfigurements. In the course of making a film about the decaffeinated hedonism of modern Los Angeles, I visited the house where Thomas Mann, in another time of torment, wrote . My German friends were filling the streets of Munich and Berlin to combat the recrudescence of the same old shit as I read: The path to this concept of enlightenment is not to be found in the pursuit of self-pity, or of self-love. Of course to be merely a political animal is to miss Mann's point; while, as ever, to be an apolitical animal is to leave fellow-citizens at the mercy of Ideolo'. For the sake of argument, then, one must never let a euphemism or a false consolation pass uncontested. The truth seldom lies, but when it does lie it lies somewhere in between.

enlightenment progress irony lies socialism literature humanism politics faith religion science truth apoliticism berlin bought-priesthood cape-coloureds eurocentricism george-hw-bush german-people groupthink left-wing-politics margaret-thatcher munich personality-politics polytheism potus radical-politics tribalism xhosa-people zulu-people ronald-reagan sectarianism monotheism solipsism argument critical-thinking self-pity self-love south-africa totalitarianism journalism right-wing-politics george-orwell soviet-union united-states conviction orthodoxy los-angeles film individualism atheism hedonism thomas-mann populism russia communism postmodernism cold-war germany literary-criticism euphemism

Christopher Hitchens

90af93e

I smiled, sipped deliciously at my drink, and made a new rule for myself: if life hands you a compliment, take it.

self-awareness self-love self-esteem

James Patterson

096ea1b

I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that.

literature feminism communion self-love

bell hooks

a2bd562

Before and after the funeral I never ceased to cry and be miserable, but it makes me ashamed when I think back on that sadness of mine, seeing that always in it was an element of self-love - now a desire to show that I prayed more than any one else, now concern about the impression I was producing on others, now an aimless curiosity which caused me to observe Mimi's cap or the faces of those around me. I despised myself for not experiencing sorrow to the exclusion of everything else, and I tried to conceal all other feelings: this made my grief insincere and unnatural. Moreover, I felt a kind of enjoyment in knowing that I was unhappy and I tried to stimulate my sense of unhappiness, and this interest in myself did more than anything else to stifle real sorrow in me.

unhappiness grief youth sorrow death tolstoy self-love funeral childhood

Leo Tolstoy

20c5737

I don't see myself very clearly. Then look at the people who love you...Look into their eyes and see what they're seeing; that's all you need to know yourself.

self-love self-esteem

Armistead Maupin

dd8f664

And she told you something about yourself you really ought to know: that you're beautiful, and worth loving.

self-love

Tamora Pierce

962cbc4

Above all, avoid lying, especially lying to yourself. Keep watching out for your lies, watch for them every hour, every minute. Also avoid disgust, both for others and yourself: whatever strikes you as disgusting within yourself is cleansed by the mere fact that you notice it. Avoid fear, too, although fear is really only a consequence of lies. Never be afraid of your petty selfishness when you try to achieve love and don't be too alarmed if you act badly on occasion.

lying lies fear love self-love disgust selfishness

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

cd6e771

The stars are in your favor, darling, you can't be horrible. Nope, they won't let you.

stars self-love

Suki Kim

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"At first, I was scared to be alone. No routines. No rules. Just me. But I think..." Taylor wiped a tear away. "I think I was always in the jungle. Before. It was always there. I think I had to come out here to find the answer." "And what did you find?" "I love myself. They make it so hard for us to love ourselves." Taylor stared off into the dark. Her face gleamed with tears. Snot ran over her lips. "The judges won't like that answer." "Nobody's judging you." Taylor choked on a sob. "Always," she whispered."

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Libba Bray

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I choose to let positive attitudes lighten my being today.

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Maureen Brady

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Only me. It had always only been me. I'd just needed to believe in her. In me.

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Meg Cabot

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I saw the apartment almost as a sanatorium, a hospice clinic for my own recovery. I painted the walls in the warmest colors I could find and bought myself flowers every week, as if I were visiting myself in the hospital.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

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Never, ever let anyone tell you that who you are is wrong. It's okay to be gay. Or straight. Or bisexual. It's also okay to be asexual, demisexual, pansexual, or aromantic. You do you, and if anyone gives you grief for that, remember one thing: You are exactly the way you're supposed to be.

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T.J. Klune