27 of the Most Important Love Yourself Quotes That You May Ever Read

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Excerpt: Before we can love another fully, we must love ourselves fully. These 27 love yourself quotes will fill you up and inspire you to do YOU.

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Introduction: Where all successful relationships start

Being in a meaningful relationship is something that we all long for. We live in a world, however, where we are bombarded with messages of love, sex, and relationships all of the time and are, many times, pressured into getting into a relationship ASAP. This, of course, can lead to rash decisions and complicated situations.

If finding a, “soulmate” becomes an obsession before finding yourself does, you’re bound to get into a relationship that fails. Successful relationships aren’t composed of two “half” persons who “complete” each other… They’re composed of two “whole” persons who compliment each other.

And if one person (or worse—both) hasn’t truly found who they are—then how could they fully love themselves, let alone their partner and contribute to a meaningful and fulfilling relationship? It would be the same as watching somebody with no self-confidence try to give self-confidence to another person—you can’t give what you don’t have. You need to learn to love yourself before you can ever truly love another.

Below, you’ll find 27 of the most important love yourself quotes that you may ever read.  The list is split up into three parts (Click to jump).

• Part 1 is about recommitting to the most important relationship in your life. Waiting for your soul mate to walk into your life? Putting yourself on the, “back burner” because you feel like you need your, “other half” before you can be “full” or “happy?” Well, the wait is over.
• Part 2 is about reminding you that being single is not a bad thing! Being single is a necessary stage in life that allows the person to grow, discover, and unleash their full potential and ability to love.
• Part 3 is about taking action and not hiding from your truth! You are an incredible being who is capable of giving an immense amount of love into the world. But the longer you hide from yourself and distract your mind from (re)prioritizing YOU into your life—the longer that that love will continue to be held back… And the longer you may have to wait before you and your life partner meet.

The caveat here is that we can never really control where and when we’re going to meet our life partner and sometimes we might meet someone that genuinely interests us even before we feel like we’re really ready.

What’s important in situations like that is that we keep the relationship with ourselves as our top priority. Because we’re forever going to be learning, growing, and changing and if we don’t pay attention, we might very well loose track of ourselves if we become too infatuated in another.

Take your time soaking in the insight from our 27 love yourself quotes below. With an open mind, they may very well change your perspective, priorities, and life path.

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The List: 27 of the Most Important Love Yourself Quotes That You May Ever Read.

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Part 1:  The Wait is Over

“You’re waiting for that magical day when someone makes the connection and recognizes who you really are.  Maybe they’ll first catch the sparkle in your eye.  Or perhaps they’ll marvel at your insights and the depth of your spirit.  Someone who will help you connect the dots, believe in yourself, and make sense of it all.  Someone who will understand you, approve of you, and unhesitatingly give you a leg up so that life can pluck your ready, ripened self from the branch of magnificence.  Well, I’m here to tell you, your wait is over.  That someone, is you.”

Mike Dooley

“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 anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.“

Buddha

“To be fully human we need to cultivate a relationship not only with other people but also with our deeper selves and with Spirit.  Solitude can be a powerful context and catalyst for this process.”

Robert Kull, Solitude

“You are what you believe you are.  There is nothing to do except to be just what you are.  You have the right to feel beautiful and enjoy it.  You can honor your body and accept it as it is.  You don’t need anyone to love you.  Love comes from the inside.  It lives inside us and is always there, but with that wall of fog, we don’t feel it.  You can only perceive the beauty that lives outside you when you feel the beauty that lives inside you.”

Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

“Stop worrying about other people understanding you.  Get in touch with yourself instead.  Focus on what makes you happy, what makes your soul feel at peace.  You are your biggest commitment, so start loving your flaws, your awkwardness, your weirdness, your intensity, your vulnerability, your everything.  Life becomes so much more fulfilling when you are just simply yourself.  The world keeps spinning whether people understand you or not so why not make this next trip around the sun about you.”

Unknown

“Sometimes we give love to the wrong person, and we sit there and wonder, ‘how could I have given love to that person? They don’t deserve it,’ or ‘what a waste of time.’  But the thing is, you shouldn’t think about it that way.  You should think of the fact that you were able to give love, because if you are able to give, that means you have it inside of you.  It’s the same thing with kindness, honesty, with your ability to care about people.  Don’t focus on the way that people abuse that.  Focus on the fact that you have it within you, and that it makes you who you are.  It makes you a beautiful person, a beautiful human being.”

Najwa Zebian

“Start over; my darling.  Be brave enough to find the life you want and courageous enough to chase it.  Then start over and love yourself the way you were always meant to.“

Madalyn Beck

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Part 2:  Being Single is NOT a Bad Thing—It’s a Necessary Thing

“Remember: despite how open, peaceful, and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you, as deeply as they’ve met themselves.“

Matt Kahn

“Can I tell you a secret?  You don’t have to be in a relationship.  I mean it.  I know they force it down your throat until you choke on it.  Girls aren’t pretty unless they’re wanted.  Boys aren’t men unless they’re having sex with someone.  People aren’t lovable until they’re dating someone.  But a relationship won’t always make you happy, and as wonderful as romance is, it isn’t the only love that exists.  I have seen friendships that are deeper and more pure than couples who swear it’s forever—and yet the friendship is the one people ignore.  I have heard so often ‘ nobody loves me’ out of the mouths of people who are single… And it kills me because if you ask them: where are your parents, your teachers, your classmates, your pets—they say, yes, okay, but it doesn’t count.  Of course it counts, love doesn’t diminish just because someone doesn’t want to have sex with you.  In fact, doesn’t it sort of make that love more real that they want nothing—not even a date—out of you?  It is pretty to be in love.  It’s magical, I’m sure.  But it’s also wonderful to stop for ice cream in your prom dress with six other girls.  It’s also wonderful to go visit the world with nothing but a bunch of buddies who are really excited about learning.  The problem is: we’ve made everything about ‘the one.’  But maybe, ‘the one’ is just you, loving yourself, having fun, and being happy.  Maybe instead of looking for our other halves, we should be piecing ourselves together.  Maybe I wasn’t born unfinished.  Maybe I am the one who makes myself better.”

Unknown

“It is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others.  It’s only when you have opened your own heart that you can touch the hearts of others.  When you feel centered and alive, you are in a much better position to be a better person.”

Robin S. Sharma, The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari

“When it comes to love, you should be your own best friend before you try to be someone else’s one and only. You should always know yourself the best before getting to know someone else.”

Gigi Engle

“The extent to which I am fearless about expressing my authentic self is in direct correlation with how much I love and accept myself.”

Anita Moorjani

“To accept others as they are, we must begin with ourselves.  If we cannot accept ourselves as we are, we will never be able to accept others.  When I look at myself, I see positive, admirable and even remarkable things, but I also know that there are negative parts of me.  So first I recognize and accept myself.”

Thich Nhat Hanh, No Death, No Fear

“When you don’t need a person at all, when you are totally sufficient unto yourself, when you can be alone and tremendously happy and ecstatic, then love is possible.  But then, too, you cannot be certain whether the other’s love is real or not – you can be certain about only one thing: whether your love is real.  How can you be certain about the other?  But then there is no need.  This continuous anxiety about whether the other’s love is real or not simply shows one thing: that your love is not real.  Otherwise, who bothers?  Why be worried about it?  Enjoy it while it lasts, be together while you can be together!  It is a fiction, but you need fiction.”

Osho, Love, Freedom, Aloneness:  The Koan of Relationships

“When you require another individual for your survival, you are a parasite on that individual. There is no choice, no freedom involved in your relationship. It is a matter of necessity rather than love. Love is the free exercise of choice. Two people love each other only when they are quite capable of living without each other but choose to live with each other.”

Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled

“It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self love deficit.”

Eartha Kitt

“Unless meditation is achieved, love remains a misery.  Once you have learned how to live alone, once you have learned how to enjoy your simple existence, for no reason at all, then there is a possibility of solving the second, more complicated problem of two persons being together.  Only two meditators can live in love – and then love will not be a koan.  But then it will not be a relationship, either, in the sense that you understand it.  It will be simply a state of love, not a state of relationship.”

Osho, Love, Freedom, Aloneness:  The Koan of Relationships

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Part 3:  Be the Seeker and Take Action; Don’t Hide

“If you want the moon… do not hide at night.  If you want a rose… do not run from the thorns.  If you want love… do not hide from yourself.”

Rumi

“Do not grow weary of searching for love, my love.  There is a reason why it hasn’t found you yet, but if you do decide to grow, grow where you know you need it.  Make yourself who you need to be while waiting for the one you’re meant to be with.”

R. M. Broderick

“The only cure I have ever known for fear and doubt and loneliness is an immense love of self.”

Alison Malee

“Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.”

Jorge Luis Borges

“Love yourself.  I cannot stress it enough.  Love yourself if it is the only thing you do.  The only thing you believe in.  Love yourself.  Do it, but do it because you must, because there is no other way to live.  No other way to find your magic.  And no other way to give yourself to someone you love.”

R. M. Drake

“There are millions of ways to express your happiness, but there is only one way to really be happy, and that is to love.  There is no other way.  You cannot be happy if you don’t love yourself.  That is a fact.  If you don’t love yourself, you don’t have any opportunity to be happy.  You cannot share what you do not have.”

Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

“When you feel good, everything around you is good, when everything around you is great, everything makes you happy. You are loving everything that is around you, because you are loving yourself. Because you like the way you are. Because you are happy with your life. You are happy with the movie that you are producing, happy with your agreements with life. You are at peace, and you are happy. You live in that state of bliss where everything is so wonderful, and everything is so beautiful.  In that state of bliss you are making love all the time with everything that you perceive.”

Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements

“In a society that profits from your self doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act.“

Unknown

“Many people are desperate to find a soul mate, someone who responds to their deep image of love and intimacy.  They go to great lengths to meet people, and they spend considerable time feeling achingly deprived of the joys of intimacy they imagine.  Their attitude is summed up in the frequent lament: When am I going to find the person who is right for me?  This approach to love seems to reflect the narcissism of the times.  When am I going to get what I need for my growth and my satisfaction? An alternative would be to give all that attention either to one’s own life – developing one’s talents, educating oneself in culture, and simply becoming an interesting person – or to a needy society.  This crafting of a life is a positive way of preparing oneself for intimacy.”

Thomas Moore, Original Self

“To master a relationship is all about you.  The first step is to become aware, to know that everyone dreams his own dream.  Once you know this, you can be responsible for your half of the relationship, which is you.  If you know that you are only responsible for half of the relationship, you can easily control your half.  It is not up to us to control the other half.  If we respect, we know that our partner, or friend, or son, or mother, is completely responsible for his or her own half.  If we respect the other half, there is always going to be peace in that relationship.  There is no war.”

Don Miguel Ruiz, The Mastery of Love

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