Love yourself first and everything falls into line.

- Lucille Ball

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.


- Walt Whitman

Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God’s curriculum.

- Rabbi Israel ben Eliezer

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

- E. E. Cummings

Self-care is never a selfish act - it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.

- Parker Palmer

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.


- William Shakespeare

It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture the soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal's rhythm of rest and activity.


- Thomas Moore

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.


- Buddha

Learn the skills needed to nurture you. Ask yourself: 'How do I nurture others?' and apply that to yourself.


- Luke De Sadeleer

Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief she is beautiful.

- Sophia Loren

There’s no better way to energize your body, mind, and spirit than by taking care of yourself.

- Stephanie Tourles

Be your own inspiration - acknowledge the beauty and perfection of who you are.

- Trish Bishop

Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.

- Cynthia Kersey

Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live.


- Jim Rohn

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.


Benjamin Spock

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.


- William Shakespeare

To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.



- Oscar Wilde