The Best New Self-Love Quotes That Will Empower You

70 New Self-Love Quotes:

In a world of thousands of influences, self-love is a concept introduced to look at oneself and express some love and gratitude. Everyone has to come to their true identity and when they get any spark of real individuality they start showing love. This is self-love.

Self-love includes the acceptance of oneself as it is, working for oneself and searching for the uniqueness of your identity. It is a revolutionary step that is done by only brave people. it includes the revolt from conditioning, social norms and taking the side of oneself.

In this blog, you will enjoy the voice of your inner wish. These 100 self-love quotes empower you to stay alone but away from the crowd. Self-love quotes in this blog are given by many philosophers, poets, writers, activists and warriors including Osho, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Khalil Gibran, Franz Kafka, Nietzsche, Albert Camu, Krishnamurti, Rabindranath Tagore, etc.

Best Self-Love Quotes: 

1. “Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval.” – Lao Tzu

” Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. ” -Franz Kafka

• ” In the struggle between yourself and the world, second the world ” -Franz Kafka

• ” Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. ” -Franz Kafka

• ” “From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached. “-Franz Kafka

• ” Youth is happy because it can see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. “-Franz Kafka

• ” I am a cage, in search of a bird. ” -Franz Kafka

• ” Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly. “-Franz Kafka

• ” I lack nothing. I only needed myself. “-Franz Kafka

Best Self-Love Quotes

•  ” I never wish to be easily defined. “-Franz Kafka

•  ” When you are Yourself, There is Truth, there is Beauty, There is Grace, there is Ecstasy. “-Osho

• ” Nobody is superior, nobody is inferior, but nobody is equal either. People are simply unique, and incomparable. You are you, I am I. I have to contribute my potential to life; You have to contribute your potential to life. I have to discover my being; You have to discover your being.” -Osho

•  ” Respect your individuality and respect others’ individuality. Never interfere in anybody’s life and don’t allow anybody to interfere in your life. Only then one day you can grow into spirituality.” -Osho

Best Self-Love Quotes: 

•  “I teach the individual, I teach the unique individual. Respect yourself, and love yourself, because there has never been a person like you and there never will be again. God never repeats. You are utterly unique, incomparably unique. “-Osho

•  “My whole teaching is simply this: accept yourself, love yourself, respect yourself, worship yourself, celebrate yourself. That is the only way to pray to god.” -Osho

•  ” When the personality disappears, don’t be afraid. Then for the first time, you become authentic. For the first time, you become real. For the first time, you attain essence. That essence in India has been called ATMA, the soul. The ego is the centre of personality, and God is the centre of the essence. “-Osho

•  ” A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love. “-Osho

•  ” The healthy love of oneself is a great religious value. The person who doesn’t love himself will not be able to love anybody else, ever. The first ripple of love has to rise in your heart. If it has not risen for yourself it cannot rise for anybody else, because everybody else is farther away from you. “-Osho

Self-Love Quotes

•  ” I teach you to be selfish. I teach you self-love because it is only through self-love that you will be capable of loving others. “-Osho

• ” If you love yourself, you love others. If you hate yourself, you hate others. In relationships with others, it is only you, mirrored. “-Osho

•  “A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the errors, that will do “-Osho

• ” Go on seeking, searching, finding. There may be many errors, but there is no other way to grow. Trial and error is the only way. By and by, you go on eliminating the errors. Less and less errors happen, and more and more purity becomes available. Don’t stop in the middle “-Osho

Best Self-Love Quotes: 

• ” Self-love isn’t selfish. It’s about treating ourselves the way we treat our loved ones. The way deep down inside we want our loved ones to treat us. It’s just that. Nothing more, nothing less. “-Osho

• ” I was looking for someone to inspire me, motivate me, support me, keep me focused… Someone who would love me, cherish me, and make me happy and I realized that all along I was looking for myself. “-Unknown 

• ” Life repeats itself mindlessly. Unless you become mindful, it will go on repeating like a wheel. “-Osho

• ” Once you let go nothing dies, only the ego. You remain forever and ever.”-Osho

• ” I love because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My love is dependent on my state of being. So whether the other person changes or becomes different, a friend turns into a foe, does not matter, because my love was never dependent on the other person. My love is my state of being. I simply love “-Osho

• ” Don’t ask for any happiness from anybody – nobody can give it. Only you can give that gift to yourself, it is a self-gift. So give that gift to yourself and be happy.”-Osho

• ” Drop the idea of becoming someone because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it “-Osho

Self-Love Quotes

• ” I want you to become selfish. Love yourself, be yourself. Don’t be distracted by any type of people – religious, political, social, or educational. Your first responsibility is neither towards religion nor towards the nation. Your first responsibility is towards yourself.” -Osho

•  ” You were born to be real, not to be perfect. ” -Unknown 

• ” To avoid pain, they avoid pleasure. To avoid death, they avoid life.  “-Osho

• ” Courage Is a love affair with the Unknown “-Osho

Best Self-Love Quotes: 

• ” And that is the essence of wisdom to be in harmony with nature, with the natural rhythm of the universe. And whenever you are in harmony with the natural rhythm of the universe, you are a poet, you are a painter, you are a musician, you are a dancer. “-Osho

• ” Get out of your head and get into your heart. Think less, feel more “-Osho

• ” If You Cannot Love Yourself You Don’t Know Even The Taste Of Love Or What Love Means. “-Osho

• ” If You Live With Love, Through Love, You Will Live A Great Life, Because Love Makes Everything Great. “-Osho

• ” To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it “-Osho

Self-Love Quotes

• ” My vision of freedom is to be yourself “-Osho

• ” Anything that gives you freedom is Right. and anything that Destroys your freedom is Wrong ” -Osho

•  ” The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.” -Osho

• ” Your whole idea about yourself is borrowed- borrowed from those who have no idea of who they are themselves. ” -Osho

•  “I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.” -Khalil Gibran

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The Best Self-Love Quotes: 

• “I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.” -Khalil Gibran

• “I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.” -Khalil Gibran

• “I prefer to be a sorrowful with whom I can share my sorrow, than a joyful with whom I cannot share my joy.” -Khalil Gibran

• “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”-Khalil Gibran

Self-Love Quotes

•  “I am ignorant of absolute truth. But I am humble before my ignorance and therein lies my honour and my reward.”-Khalil Gibran

• ” If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were. “-Khalil Gibran

• ” Your confidence in the people, and your doubt about them, are closely related to your self-confidence and your self-doubt. “-Khalil Gibran

•  ” They came through you but not from you and though they are with you they belong not to you “-Khalil Gibran

• ” If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. “-Khalil Gibran

Best Self-Love Quotes: 

• ” That which does not kill us makes us stronger. ” -Nietzsche 

• ” One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. ” -Nietzsche

• ” You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. “-Nietzsche

• ” In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. ” -Nietzsche

• ” We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. “-Nietzsche

• ” The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” -Nietzsche

• ” To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” -Nietzsche

• “The individual has always been against the masses; the few against the many.” -Nietzsche

•  ” Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.” -Lao Tzu

Best Self-Love Quotes: 

• ” Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.” -Lao Tzu

• ” The wise man knows what he does not know.” -Lao Tzu

• ” Silence is a source of great strength.” -Lao Tzu

• ” It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.” -Krishnamurti

• ” The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.” -Krishnamurti

• ” The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.” -Krishnamurti

• “To be free of all authority, of your own and that of another, is to die to everything of yesterday, so that your mind is always fresh, always young, innocent, full of vigour and passion.” -Krishnamurti

• “You oneself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” -Buddha

• “Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we’ll ever do.” -Unknown