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I believe we were born to love ourselves instinctively.  But for some of us, somewhere between our innocence and becoming consciously aware, our minds, instead of being imprinted with self acceptance, became infected with the virus, I’m not good enough.

This virus can be removed with focused intention and specific action steps.  You’ll have the confidence to lift yourself to new heights and accept that you’ve always been good enough.

As part of the “I Love Myself Project” launched byJoanna Lindenbaum of Soulful Coaching, here are 101 “I love myself” quotes that you can add to the tools that will help you to embrace all of you.

Bookmark this page – choose you favorite quotes and repeat them often.

I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.  ~Robert Brault

The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity.  Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune.  ~Boris Pasternak

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.  ~e.e. cummings

Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which he does not possess, and to gain applause which he cannot keep.  ~Samuel Johnson.

Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.  ~Homer

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.  ~Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel

“Be yourself” is about the worst advice you can give some people.  ~Tom Masson

I think of life itself now as a wonderful play that I’ve written for myself, and so my purpose is to have the utmost fun playing my part.  ~Shirley MacLaine

Never be bullied into silence.  Never allow yourself to be made a victim.  Accept no one’s definition of your life; define yourself.  ~Harvey Fierstein

Learn to… be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.  ~Henri Frederic Amiel


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 Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it. ~ unknown

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.~ Lucille Ball

Why try to be someone you’re not?  Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.  ~Robert Brault

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.  ~Kurt Vonnegut

The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow.  Take your own color in the pattern and be just that.  ~Charles R. Brown

I don’t like myself, I’m crazy about myself.~ Mae West

Be yourself, don’t take anyone’s shit, and never let them take you alive.~ Gerard Way

Do you want to meet the love of your life? Look in the mirror.~ Byron Katie

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.  ~Confucius

Never apologize for showing feeling.  When you do so, you apologize for the truth.  ~Benjamin Disraeli

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.  ~Johann von Goethe

Our first and last love is – self-love~ Christian Bovee

Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.~ Veronica A. Shoffstal

If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.~ Nicholas de Chamfort

Self-love seems so often unrequited.~ Anthony Powell

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The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.~Sonya Friedman

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.  ~François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.~ Oscar Wilde

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.~ Author Unknown

Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.~ Karolina Kurkova

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.~ Walt Whitman

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?  ~Fanny Brice

Every time you don’t follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.  ~Shakti Gawain

At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Ride the energy of your own unique spirit.  Gabrielle RothIt is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.  ~ Andre Gide

There is just one life for each of us:  our own.  ~Euripides

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 image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may love myself is very different from the image which I try to create in the minds of others in order that they may love me.~ W. H. Auden

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that’s political, in its most profound way.~ June Jordan

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.  ~Steve Jobs

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Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.~ François de la Rochefoucauld

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.

Don’t forget to love yourself.~ Soren Kierkegaard

I’m not the greatest; I’m the double greatest. Not only do I knock ’em out, I pick the round.~ Muhammad Ali

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.~ Kristin Chenoweth

I am a feminist and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
June Jordan

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the    entire universe, deserve your love and  affection.  ~Buddah      

Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. ~ Ralph Waldo

If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself. ~ Barbara De Angelis

The strongest force in the universe is a human being living consistently with his identity.  ~Tony Robbins

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.  ~Samuel Johnson

To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.  ~Oscar Wilde

Best be yourself, imperial, plain and true!  ~Robert Browning

Follow your inner moonlight; don’t hide the madness.  ~Allen Ginsberg

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own.  ~Johann von Goethe

When one is pretending the entire body revolts.  ~Anaïs Nin

It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved.  ~Robert Brault

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Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor, and vise versa.~ Dr Karl Menninger

We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.
Paul Valery

I think that when we look for love courageously, it reveals itself, and we wind up attracting even more love. If one person really wants us, everyone does. But if we’re alone, we become even more alone. Life is strange. ~ Paulo Coelho

It’s not your job to like me – it’s mine~ Byron Katie

Know yourself. Don’t accept your dog’s admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful. ~ Ann Landers  

Love brings you face to face with your self. It’s impossible to love another if you cannot love yourself.~ John Pierrakos

You can explore the universe looking for somebody who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and you will not find that person anywhere.

He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage – he won’t encounter many rivals.~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparison with others, he has some invisible distinctions, some latent reserve of excellence, which he throws into the balance, and by which he generally fancies that it is turned in his favor.~ Samuel Johnson

We are betrayed by what is false within.  ~George Meredith

I will tell you the truth.  ~Oscar Wilde

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.  ~Dr. Seuss

No creature is fully itself till it is, like the dandelion, opened in the bloom of pure relationship to the sun, the entire living cosmos.  ~D.H. Lawrence

Individualism is rather like innocence:  There must be something unconscious about it.  ~Louis Kronenbergerric Hoffer

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.  ~Desiderius Erasmus

Like the sky opens after a rainy day we must open to ourselves…. Learn to love yourself for who you are and open so the world can see you shine.  ~James Poland

All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person’s point of view.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Be what you are.  This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.  ~Julius Charles Hare

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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent. ~ Sophia Loren

The degree to which you love yourself will determine your ability to love the other person, who will be reflecting back to you many of your own personality traits and qualities ~ Sanaya Roman

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
Carl Gustav Jung

You can measure the impeccability of your word by your level of self-love. How much you love yourself and how you feel about yourself are directly proportionate to the quality and integrity of your word. When you are impeccable with your word, you feel good; you feel happy and at peace. You can transcend the dream of hell just by making the agreement to be impeccable with your word. Right now I am planting that seed in your mind. Whether or not the seed grows depends upon how fertile your mind is for the seeds of love. It is up to you to make this agreement with yourself: I am impeccable with my word. Nurture this seed, and as it grows in your mind, it will generate more seeds of love to replace the seeds of fear. This first agreement will change the kind of seeds your mind is fertile for. ~ Don Miguel Ruiz

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting. ~ William Shakespeare   

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
Benjamin Franklin

Living life without self-courtship has a high cost. We risk losing our sensuality, our senses, precious moments with those we love, our smile, and our joy. When we romance ourselves, it prepares a fertile garden for a profusion of love to bloom in all areas of our lives. We regain passion and now becomes a moment not to be missed!
Corrie Woods

Imagine when you look in the mirror that the face looking back at you is someone you truly love. Just imagine.
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People often say that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,” and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.~ Salma Hayek

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person” ~ Alexander Pope    

We have nothing to lose by trusting the infinite power of the Self, except the bondage of our own ignorance.
Amma (Mata Amritanandamayi Devi)

My primary relationship is with myself- all others are mirrors of it. As I learn to love myself, I automatically receive the love and appreciation that I desire from others. If I am committed to myself and to living my truth, I will attract others with equal commitment. My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.~ Shakti Gawain

Loving yourself is healing the world.
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Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always longed to receive from someone else. Gloria Jean Watkins

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.  ~e.e. cummings

He who trims himself to suit everyone will soon whittle himself away.  ~Raymond Hull

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.  ~William Shakespeare

All my life I had been looking for something, and everywhere I turned someone tried to tell me what it was.  I accepted their answers too, though they were often in contradiction and even self-contradictory.  I was naive.  I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer.  It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with:  that I am nobody but myself.  ~Ralph Ellison

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.  ~James Matthew Barrie

Most people are other people.  Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.  ~Oscar Wilde

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.  ~Judy Garland

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

If you cannot be a poet, be the poem.  ~David Carradine

One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead. ~ Oscar Wilde

It’s a wrap

Loving oneself is the beginning of living a without limits. If you’re a parent or planning to become one, do everything within your power, and then some, so that your child’s default programming will be “I love myself unconditionally.” It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give to your child or any child for that matter.

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