You are enough: 10 empowering quotes on self-love by popular authors

Literature is filled with beautiful quotes on love and the importance of loved ones. However, with psychology growing as a science, it's now accepted that one needs to love themselves to be able to fully love another. For some, that can be as easy as loving their family while for others it's the most difficult relationship to build. Wherever between those poles you are, here are some heart-touching quotes from literature that should inspire you to love yourself.
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“The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
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“We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.” – Dalai Lama
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“How you love yourself is
how you teach others
to love you”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
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“I'm safe inside this container called me.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
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“She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
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"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
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“I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
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“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
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“If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.”
― Charles Bukowski
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"I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
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