Just a few quotes to provide some guidance to self-love, and finding yourself. I know that these quotes really speak to me and describe what I went through at a time in my life, I hope they can do that for others.
1. "Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have." -Robert Holden
2. "One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see. Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it." -Gabourey Sidibe
3. "Self-love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excuses will spill over into the lives of people you hold dear. But you must come first." -Beau Tapin
4. "No matter how many times you tell a girl she is beautiful, she will never believe you if she doesn't believe in herself." -Unknown
5. "It is the feeling you get when you completely let go and allow yourself to belong to yourself for the first time. When you look in the mirror and it is just you. Your eyes finally just your eyes. Your skin finally just your skin. Their fingerprints nowhere to be found. You are the you before they came. The you that does not have grief resting in their belly and mourning rotting on their tongue. You are stripped clean of everything that could not carry the way your heart demanded youth be carried. It is all you. Welcome back. You have been gone for such a while. It is all you. It has alway just been, all you." -Rupi Kaur
6. "Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don't stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just...start." -Ijeoma Umebinyguo
7. "Self-love is so important. Loving anything is impossible until you fall in love with who you are. As humans, we are always changing, always growing, always taking two steps forward and one step back, but during the ups and the downs, who's there? No one but you can pick yourself up when you're feeling down. No one can make you happier than you can make yourself if you allow it. Nothing can bring you down unless you let it. Loving who you are and embracing who you are going to become in the next minute, hour, day, week, month, year, etc. is only going to make you happier. You're going to radiate positivity because you love who you are. There is nothing better than that and once you experience it, let me tell you, you'll understand why. LOVE YOURSELF. I will never ever stop saying it, putting emphasis on it, and working for it." -Unknown
8. "We begin to find and become ourselves when we notice how we are already found, already truly, entirely, wildly, messily, marvelously who we were meant to be." -Anne Lamott
9. "Not until we are lost do we truly begin to find ourselves." -Henry David Thoreau
10. "We lose ourselves in the things we love. We find ourselves, there too." -Kristin Martz
