Elijah Muhammad
Religious Leader
"Love of self comes first. The one who loves everybody is the one who does not love anyone."
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Self Love
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Lady Gaga
Singer, Actress
"Do not allow people to dim your shine because they are blinded. Tell them to put on some sunglasses because we were born this way."
Rumi
Poet, Philosopher
"The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!"
Wayne Dyer
Author, Motivational Speaker
"Failure is a judgment, an opinion. It stems from your fears, which can be eliminated by love-love for yourself, love for what you do, love for others, and love for your planet."
Albert Camus
Philosopher, Writer
"True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person."
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"What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now."
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"I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do."
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"I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art."
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"Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?"
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"There is a voice inside which speaks and says, "This is the real me!""
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"Self-esteem and self-love are the opposites of fear; the more you like yourself, the less you fear anything."
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"Jealousy is not so much the love of another as the love of ourselves."
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"What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves."
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"Accept yourself, love yourself."
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"If it were in my power, I would be wiser; but a newly felt power carries me off in spite of myself; love leads me one way, my understanding another."
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"Happiness depends on ourselves."
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"Look into a mirror, make eye contact with yourself, and say "I love me" as many times as possible during the day."
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"You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not."
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"It has long been recognized that the problems with alcohol relate not to the use of a bad thing, but to the abuse of a good thing."
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"Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself."
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"Nothing is so strong as gentleness."
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"Jealousy is not love, but self-love."
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"If you're not at peace with yourself, you can't be at peace with anyone else."
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"Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else."
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"Love is never outside ourselves; love is within us."
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