Self Love Quotes for YOUR Best Valentine’s Day Ever
“How I Love ME, let me count the ways!” Shakespeare said it best, but this one was modified slightly with a modern twist.
Even though most love quotes come from our famous ancient poets, there is a new type of love quote gaining popularity – the SELF love quote. After all, if we don’t love yourself first, we are incapable of loving anyone else. It’s an insightful and modern way of looking at life.
In today’s My Dear Quotes entry, we’ll cover some of the very best self love quotes to affirm how awesome you really are and to boost your self esteem if you need some inspirational encouragement to smile today.

Types of Self Love Quotes
There are a few different interpretations of self love, and not everyone necessarily resonates with the same, so to break it down to appeal to everyone, here are some of the more common types of self love quotes that may or may not apply to you:
Accepting your Quirks – You are Special!
No two people are created alike. Everyone has their own likes & dislikes. As such, we should be proud of who we are, no matter what our quirks may be. Don’t loose your self confidence just because you have a condition like autism or OCD. These things define who you are and make you unique in the world of however many billion inhabitants.
Here are some of my favorite self love quotes denoting how special you are and to boost your self esteem:
- Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.―Jennifer Elisabeth
- You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. —Buddha
- Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are. —Beyoncé
- Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. —Carl Gustav Jung
- Our first and last love is self-love. —Christian Nestell Bovee
- We accept the love we think we deserve. —Stephen Chbosky
Quotes for Empowering Sexuality & Self Pleasure
Self love has an alternate meaning – it allows us the pleasure of enjoying pleasure! Personal pleasure is part and parcel of self love, after all there is a reason for these interchangeable terms – self love can also mean lovemaking and giving yourself the permission to enjoy sexual pleasure and know it okay to feel good.
Religious couples will go to marriage counseling to be affirmed that God created sexual pleasure for a married couples to share our bodies are a gift to each other, and using sex toys together is okay. I find it almost comical that we need to be trained to enjoy love because we’ve been raised to be ashamed of sexuality and that indulging in intimacy is shameful or dirty.
You can enjoy sexual pleasure with a partner or experiment with self love on your own in a soothing bubble bath. There is nothing taboo about sexual self pleasure, empowered sexuality is something to be cherished and enjoyed. The most important advice is for sex toys to be consensual, them it’s okay no matter your sexual orientation, marriage status or gender.
Here are some of my favorite inspirational self love quotes of affirming sexuality and allowing yourself to enjoy intimate love and the pleasure that comes with it without feeling ashamed:
- Sex is such an important part of a healthy life, in the sense that it’s such an intrinsic part of who you are. When your sex life is not healthy, you resort to other things as an outlet. – Nick Jonas
- Women who do not enjoy their sensuality seldom have much capacity for enjoyment of any sort. ― Lebo Grand
- The world is a very stressful place to live in, and your sensuality is the key to making your unearthly experience a little bit of heaven. ― Lebo Grand
- The only person you should ever fear losing in a relationship is you yourself. ― Miya Yamanouchi
- When I’m good, I’m very good, but when I’m bad, I’m better. -Mae West
- Sex without love is merely healthy exercise. — Robert A. Heinlein
Knowing you are Loved – Quotes for Better Confidence
On the outside, we are always worried about what other people think. There is a such an enormous worth placed upon outside opinions of us. Living with confidence truly comes from within. There are therapist who work with clients on a daily basis to help them understand that confidence comes from within, it’s not something we can soak up from our surrounding world.
As such, we need to change our thinking and outlook on the world around us. Basically, stop being such a sponge that soaks in our environment – we need to project outwards and be our own self.
If you need a few self esteem boosters to get you started on your day, here are some inspirational quotes that I like best:
- Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. —Carl Gustav Jung
- Our first and last love is self-love. —Christian Nestell Bovee
- We accept the love we think we deserve. —Stephen Chbosky
- It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes. —Sally Field
- The same light you see in others is shining within you, too.—Morgan Harper Nichols
- Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.—Henry Thoreau