The Ancient Greeks had a unique word for self love - Philautia. Self love can be healthy or unhealthy. The unhealthy version is akin to narcissism, where one places oneself above all others to the detriment of mutual relationships. Healthy self-love is akin to self-esteem and self-compassion, allowing individuals to care for others.
Are you as kind to yourself as you are to your friends and family?
We cannot look to others to fill our need for love and happiness; we must first love ourselves to fully love another.
Caring for yourself, reestablishing peace in yourself, is the basic condition for helping someone else. ~Thich Nhat Hanh
You are beautifully imperfect, and wired for struggle; yet you are worthy of love and belonging. ~Brene Brown
You are good, you are beautiful, you are lovable. ~ Anonymous
What if we just decided that we have enough? That we are enough? ~Shonda Rhimes
Love your neighbor as yourself. ~ Leviticus 19:18 and Matthew 22:39
If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. ~ Fred Rodgers
Caring for yourself, reestablishing peace in yourself, is the basic condition for helping someone else. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. ~Oscar Wilde
When you're friends with yourself, you're never alone. ~Maxwell Maltz
The only true joy on earth is to escape from the prison of our own false self, and enter by love into union with the Life Who dwells and sings within the essence of every creature and in the core of our own souls. ~Thomas Merton, New Seeds of Contemplation
If our universe is the only one, then you are the only person in the entirety of existence even remotely like you. You are a miracle- the chances that you were born at all are extraordinarily low, yet here you are. Appreciate your uniqueness in all of the universe, and embrace who you are and who you want to be. The path to self compassion is not always easy, but you have always overcome every obstacle, and you always will. ~Anonymous
Practice love until you remember that you are love. ~ Swami Sai Premananda
Love of self and love of life connects us with the prosperity of the universe. ~Louise Hay
The next time you feel alone or afraid, remember...how you speak to yourself changes everything. ~Unknown
A moment of self compassion can change an entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life. ~Christopher Germer
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