You owe it to you to put yourself first. When you take care of yourself, take the time to see yourself, and get comfortable with being you, only then can you start to take care of other people, see other people, and be comfortable with other people.

You've got to find yourself first. Everything else'll follow.

Just keep coming home to yourself. You are the one you’ve been waiting for.

You won’t be important to other people all the time, and that’s why you have to be important to yourself.
Learn to enjoy your own company. Take care of yourself. Encourage positive self-talk – and become your own support system.
Your needs matter, so start meeting them yourself. Don’t rely on others.

...before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself.

The only way to come to a full acceptance and understanding of yourself is to embrace your own culture, quirks and differences while learning about those around you and exploring, incorporating and embracing their cultures, differences.

Il faut se prêter à autrui et ne se donner qu'à soi-même.

We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

TO COME HOME TO YOURSELF May all that is unforgiven in you Be released. May your fears yield Their deepest tranquillities. May all that is unlived in you Blossom into a future Graced with love.

Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.

It's important to be able to feel that you can be yourself.

I had to be on my own, just so that I would not feel as alone. (p. 201).

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

Be Yourself. Everyone Else Is Already Taken.