67 powerful self-love quotes to remind you that you’re enough

Remembering to practice self-care and self-love might be one of the last things on your mind right now. We’re going on year two of a global pandemic, working remotely is as exhausting as ever if not more so than pre-corona days, and some of us have little ones and virtual learning to worry about or have friends who do, and we empathize with them. Either way, there’s a lot going on and you’re understandably feeling depleted.

Self-love is defined as a state of appreciation for oneself that grows from intentional actions that support our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. The great thing about self-love is that it can take various forms. It can be surrounding yourself (virtually these days) with friends, family, and people who support you to the fullest. Perhaps you stay on top of your health and are consistent with exercise and eating a nutritious diet. Or, maybe you’re like me and prefer focusing on words, quotes, affirmations, and things you’re grateful for.

In a 2021 world where positivity can feel rare and fleeting sometimes, it’s important to regain focus and realize how much is actually within our control. And if something as simple (and free) as words can provide a little boost of daily inspo, then sign me up.

Here some of my favorite positive and inspirational self-love quotes to remind you that you’re enough and help you rise again.

67 powerful self-love quotes to remind you that you’re enough

1. “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha

2. “Be proud of who you are, and not ashamed of how someone else sees you.” – Unknown

3. “You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress simultaneously.” – Sophia Bush

4. “You are free, you are powerful, you are good, you are love, you have value, you have a purpose. All is well.” – Esther Hicks

5. “Eat like you love yourself. Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like your love yourself. Love yourself.” – Tara Stiles

6. “You were born to be real, not to be perfect. You are here to be you, not to live someone else’s life.” – Ralph Marston

7. “Self-love is not selfish; you cannot truly love another until you know how to love yourself.” – Unknown

8. “There’s no need to be perfect to inspire others. Let others get inspired by how you deal with your imperfections.” – Ziad K. Abdelnour

9. “You have to believe in yourself when no one else does—that makes you a winner right here.” – Venus Williams

10. “If you’re searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.” – Unknown

11. “Confidence is the ability to feel beautiful, without needing someone to tell you.” – Mandy Hale

12. “Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.” – Wayne Dyer

13. “No one is you and that is your superpower.” – Unknown

14. “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” – Coco Chanel

15. “Self-love. It doesn’t mean that everyone will treat you the way you deserve to be treated. It means that you won’t let them change the way you see yourself; nor will you stick around for them to destroy you.” – Tony A. Gaskins, Jr.

16. “I am not looking to escape my darkness, I’m learning to love myself here.” – Rune Lazuli

17. “Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.” – Unknown

18. “A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.” – Zen Shin

19. “You need to know that you’re enough. You are complete with or without a partner. You are enough just as you are.” – Meghan Markle

20. “Today you are you, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is you-er than you. Shout aloud, I am glad to be what I am. Thank goodness I’m not a ham, or a clam, or a dusty old jar of gooseberry jam. I am what I am, what a great thing to be. If I say so myself, happy everyday to me!” – Dr. Seuss

21. “Be yourself, because an original is so much better than a copy.” – Unknown

22. “Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.” – Beyonce

23. “Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing, and work hard. The right people—the ones who really belong in your life—will come to you. And stay.” – Will Smith

24. “To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.” – Alan Cohen

25. “Love yourself first, because that’s who you’ll be spending the rest of your life with.” – Unknown

26. “Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.” – George R.R. Martin

27. “It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self-love deficit.” – Eartha Kitt

28. “Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.” – Malcolm S. Forbes

29. “The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.” – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

30. “Falling in love with yourself first doesn’t make you vain or selfish. It makes you indestructible.” – Unknown

31. “Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.” – Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

32. “I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.” – Kristen Neff

33. “Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.” – Jean Vanier

34. “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

35. “When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in.” – Gabrielle Bernstein

36. “Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” – Roy T. Bennett

37. “You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it.” – Dr. Robert Anthony

38. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

39. “The day you stop fitting into the world is the day you start living.” – Unknown

40. “A beautiful day begins with a beautiful mindset. When you wake up, take a second to think about what a privilege it is to simply be alive and healthy. The moment you start acting like life is a blessing, I assure you it will start to feel like one. Time spent appreciating is time worth loving.” – John Geiger

41. “When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs, and habits–anything that kept me small. My judgment called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving.” – Kim McMillen

42. “At the end of the day darling, you are enough. You always have been. It may have taken you awhile to see that and to finally reach this place, but you have always been enough.” – Lacey Ramburger

43. “The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision, so write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.” – Neil Gaiman

44. “It’s a beautiful thing to have lungs that allow you to breathe air and legs that allow you to climb mountains, and it’s a shame that sometimes we don’t realize that that’s enough.” – Unknown

45. “Scare the world: Be exactly who you say you are and tell the truth.” – Iain Cain Thomas

46. “You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.” – Maya Angelou

47. “Even if you go for it and it doesn’t work out, you still win. You still had the guts enough to head straight into something that frightened you. That type of bravery will take you places.” – Evan Sanders, The Better Man Project

48. “Self-love, self-respect, self-worth… there is a reason they all start with ‘self.’ You can’t find them in anyone else.” – Unknown

49. “You’re worthy of greatness, even if you don’t see it yet.” – Lauren Jarvis-Gibson

50. “If you ever feel like you’re not good enough for something, it’s because you’re unaware of your own potential and your own value. And when you’re unaware of who you could be, you’re limited to who you think you are, to who people told you were, to who society tells you should be.” – Rania Naim

51. “To be happy you don’t need to be perfect. You just need to be real and accept yourself as you are because you are already enough.” – Unknown

52. “Encourage yourself, believe in yourself, and love yourself. Never doubt who you are.” – Stephanie Lahart

53. “Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are enough.” – Germany Kent

54. “Whatever you did today is enough. Whatever you felt today is valid. Whatever you thought today isn’t to be judged. Repeat the above each day.” – Brittany Burgunder

55. “I need to see my own beauty and to continue to be reminded that I am enough, that I am worthy of love without effort, that I am beautiful, that the texture of my hair and that the shape of my curves, the size of my lips, the color of my skin, and the feelings that I have are all worthy and okay.” – Tracee Ellis Ross

56. “The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.” – Brene Brown

57. “I exist as I am, that is enough.” – Walt Whitman

58. “I was told I wasn’t good enough, but I just chose not to listen.” – Khalid

59. “Don’t wait to do something just because you think you are not enough. Time doesn’t know that.” – Unknown

60. “It’s not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we’re not good enough, that we must live up to someone else’s standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.” – Elle Macpherson

61. “To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.” – Sandra Bierig

62. “Don’t doubt your value. Don’t run from who you are.” – Aslan

63. “To love yourself is to understand you don’t need to be perfect to be good.” – Unknown

64. “You are the only one who can limit your greatness. Remember that you are enough.” – UpJourney

65. “To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” – E.E. Cummings

66. “You’re a work of art. Not everyone will understand you, but the ones who do will never forget about you.” – Unknown

67. “As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethet

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