NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 134

• “If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.” ~  Charles Bukowski

• • “Love yourself…you can’t build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.” ~ Ram Dass
• • “You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” ~ Louise L. Hay
• • “Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself—what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.” ~ Warsan Shire
• • “Self love is the elixir of an immortal heart.” ~ Amy Leigh Mercree
• • “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” ~ Buddha
• • “I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.” ~ Madonna
• • “To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.” ~ Oscar Wilde
• • “Self love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. But you must come first.” ~ Beau Taplin
• • “The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on or blame. The gift is yours—it is an amazing journey—and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins.” ~ Bob Moawad
• • “A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.” ~ Andrew Matthews
• • “Self-love is the source of all our other loves.” ~ Pierre Corneille
• • “Celebrate who you are in your deepest heart. Love yourself and the world will love you.” ~ Amy Leigh Mercree
• • “If you aren’t good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you’ll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren’t even giving to yourself.” ~ Barbara De Angelis