Self-love is about knowing everything about yourself, however ugly or dark or bad your truth is, and accepting yourself with it. Self-love is about knowing how to transform your flaws into your strengths rather than hiding them inside you so that no one can see them. Self-love is about choosing yourself every single day to study your patterns, examine your behavior, knowing your thoughts (even if they are mean at times). Self-love is about creating a home deep inside you where you can be YOU without worrying about healing, pretending, or perfectionism. You are beautiful with your dark side not by hiding them under the mask of goodness.

Self-love is the balance between accepting yourself as you are while knowing that you deserve better and working towards it.

The understanding of self-love that makes the most sense to me is much more internal. It is the way you relate to yourself with compassion, honesty, and openness. It is meeting every part of yourself with unconditional acceptance, from the parts that you find easy to love, to the rough and imperfect parts that you try to hide from. Self-love begins with acceptance, but it does not stop there. Real self-love is a total embrace of all that you are while simultaneously acknowledging that you have room to grow and much to let go of.

Self-love is about participating in healthy environments that grow you and nourish you. It is also about cutting yourself off from evil and energy-draining environments that kill you slowly.

Self-love is the foundation for your capacity to love the other person. If you don’t take good care of yourself, if you are not happy, if you are not peaceful, you cannot make the other person happy. You cannot help the other person; you cannot love. Your capacity for loving another person depends entirely on your capacity for loving yourself, for taking care of yourself.

do not confuse self-love with thinking that you’re better than everyone else true self-love is accepting yourself for all that you are, especially the darkest parts

Self-love is a vehicle we use to travel through our own inner universe.

Real self-love is a total embrace of all that you are while simultaneously acknowledging that you have room to grow and much to let go of.

self-love is doing the work we need to do to be free

Self-love is doing what we need to do to feel whole again.

All love, ultimately, is self-love.

But true self-love is when you appreciate where you are and who you are, regardless of any transformation you aspire to.

Self-love, which concerns itself only with ourselves, is content to satisfy our own needs; but selfishness, which is always comparing self with others, is never satisfied and never can be; for this feeling, which prefers ourselves to others, requires that they should prefer us to themselves, which is impossible.

self-love consists of two essential elements that must be balanced if one wishes to live a harmonious life.