What do you do for yourself? What in your life is your own? What energizes you? What is it about you that keeps you motivated to keep going when times are tough?
If you’ve ever seen the movie Runaway Bride with Julia Roberts, she keeps running away from relationships--until she finally figures out who she is and what she likes, right down to her favorite style of eggs. You may have heard more times than you can count that, before you can love someone else, you have to love yourself first. I believe it means so much more than a cliché.
Whether you’re single, in a relationship, or in looking at relationships with others in your life, being able to sit and be comfortable with you, any boredom that comes about, and being okay with yourself can put you in a position of leading your best life possible.
Maybe you find yourself getting in your own way. Maybe you’ve been “losing yourself“ in a relationship--forgetting about those parts of you that made you, you. If you feel something’s lacking within you, or you are finding yourself in need of getting back to things that once kept you going, hopefully these inspirational quotes will help give you some motivation to explore within. You can get back to yourself, or find yourself, for the benefit of you, and anyone you interact with.
“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”
“Loving ourselves through the process of owning our story is the bravest thing we will ever do. –Brene’ Brown”
“Make sure you don’t start seeing yourself through the eyes of those that don’t value you. Know your worth even if they don’t. –Thema Davis”
“Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, and be good to yourself; because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things. –Leo Buscaglia”
“Be your own best friend. Have your own back, fight for yourself, love yourself. Be willing to do everything you can to make yourself happy. –Sonya Parker”
“You have to love yourself because no amount of love from others is sufficient to fill the yearning that your soul requires from you. –Dodinsky”
“You must be fearless enough to give yourself the love you did not receive. –Oprah Winfrey”
“Self-love is essential. Until you learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room. –Vironika Tugaleva”
“You, yourself, as much as anybody else in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. —Buddha”
“Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. –Lucille Ball”
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Amy