Self-love is the balance between accepting yourself as you are while knowing you deserve better, and then working towards it.

Self-love is about knowing everything about yourself, however ugly or dark or bad your truth is, and accepting yourself with it. Self-love is about knowing how to transform your flaws into your strengths rather than hiding them inside you so that no one can see them. Self-love is about choosing yourself every single day to study your patterns, examine your behavior, knowing your thoughts (even if they are mean at times). Self-love is about creating a home deep inside you where you can be YOU without worrying about healing, pretending, or perfectionism. You are beautiful with your dark side not by hiding them under the mask of goodness.

Self-love is loving yourself exactly as you’d love the person you love the most. And that love actually feels like love and looks like meeting your own needs.

The understanding of self-love that makes the most sense to me is much more internal. It is the way you relate to yourself with compassion, honesty, and openness. It is meeting every part of yourself with unconditional acceptance, from the parts that you find easy to love, to the rough and imperfect parts that you try to hide from. Self-love begins with acceptance, but it does not stop there. Real self-love is a total embrace of all that you are while simultaneously acknowledging that you have room to grow and much to let go of.

Self-love is about participating in healthy environments that grow you and nourish you. It is also about cutting yourself off from evil and energy-draining environments that kill you slowly.

self-love is a sincere
acceptance of the past
an agreement to make
the most of the present
and a willingness to allow
the best to occur in the future

do not confuse self-love with thinking that you’re better than everyone else true self-love is accepting yourself for all that you are, especially the darkest parts

Self-love is a twisted love for one's self. This love is insane and fallen. He who is full of self-love, passionate for fleeting pleasure, for sinful indulgence, is an enemy of himself. He is a self-murderer. Thinking to love himself and pamper himself, he ends up hating and destroying himself eternally.

Self-love is the foundation for your capacity to love the other person. If you don’t take good care of yourself, if you are not happy, if you are not peaceful, you cannot make the other person happy. You cannot help the other person; you cannot love. Your capacity for loving another person depends entirely on your capacity for loving yourself, for taking care of yourself.

true self-love is when you appreciate where you are and who you are, regardless of any transformation you aspire to.

I think that a lot of people misunderstand what self-love is about. Because it is labelled diva, let's call it that but own it and love it. If I can bring the diva out of you and help you celebrate yourself on a daily basis, then that is what it is about. It is about honouring yourself

Real self-love is a total embrace of all that you are while simultaneously acknowledging that you have room to grow and much to let go of.

Self-love is a vehicle we use to travel through our own inner universe.

self-love consists of two essential elements that must be balanced if one wishes to live a harmonious life.