"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection"
- Sharon Salzberg
"In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you do not like me so,To hell,..."
- Dorothy Parker
"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as..."
"That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pre..."
- Jim Morrison
"It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being."
- John Joseph Powell
"Dare to love yourselfas if you were a rainbowwith gold at both ends."
- Aberjhani
"People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer."
- Dan Pearce
"Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings."
- Asa Don Brown
"Life is like a game of chess.To win you have to make a move.Knowing which move to make comes with IN-SIGHTand knowledge, and by learning the lessons that areacculated along the way.We become each and ..."
- Allan Rufus
"I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated your lover knows you can't."
- Marilyn Vos Savant