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Quotes on accepting, valuing and being kind to yourself. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest self-love quotes ever written — from Lao Tzu, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oscar Wilde and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

— Lao Tzu

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

— Oscar Wilde

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.

— Walt Whitman

One of the most difficult things is not to change society — but to change yourself.

— Nelson Mandela

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man should be himself, and not try to be liked by everyone.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

— Rumi

I exist as I am, that is enough.

— Walt Whitman

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Become who you are.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

— Virginia Woolf

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

— Steve Jobs

Love is not to be found in someone else, but in ourselves; we simply wake it up. But in order for that to happen, we need the other person.

— Paulo Coelho

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

— Maya Angelou

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.

If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.

— Maya Angelou

The things that make me different are the things that make me.

— A. A. Milne

Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.

— Coco Chanel

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!

— Anne Frank

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

— Lewis Carroll

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

— Rumi

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

— Rumi

Know thyself.

— Socrates

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

— Oscar Wilde

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities!

— Norman Vincent Peale

You must be the best judge of your own happiness.

— Jane Austen

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