"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."
– Wayne Dyer
"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
– E.E. Cummings
"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do."
– Eleanor Roosevelt
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love."
– Brené Brown
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
– Oscar Wilde
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
– Eleanor Roosevelt
"He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe."
– Marcus Aurelius
"Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got."
– Janis Joplin
"Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others."
– Christopher Germer
"You’ve been criticising yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens."
– Louise L. Hay
"We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light."
– Mary Dunbar
"A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
– Mark Twain
"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."
– Margaret Mead
"Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her."
– Lao Tzu
"You can succeed if nobody else believes it, but you will never succeed if you don’t believe in yourself."
– William J. H. Boetcker
"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection."
– Buddha
"A moment of self-compassion can change your entire day. A string of such moments can change the course of your life."
– Christopher K. Germer
"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are."
– Joseph Campbell
"If your compassion does not include yourself it is incomplete."
– Jack Kornfield
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
– Henry David Thoreau
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
– Dalai Lama
"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
– Eleanor Roosevelt
"Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.."
– Buddha
"The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself."
– Mark Twain
"I was once afraid of people saying ‘Who does she think she is?’ Now I have the courage to stand and say ‘This is who I am.’"
– Oprah Winfrey
"Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul."
– Walt Whitman