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Love And Self-Improvement Quotes About Overcoming Fear

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.
Marianne Williamson

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Nelson Mandela

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.
Steve Jobs

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.
Michael Novak

The only thing that stands between you and your dream is the story you tell yourself that you can't achieve it.
Jordan Belfort

Love is the absence of judgment.
Dalai Lama XIV

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.
E.E. Cummings

Love And Self-Improvement Quotes About Finding Inner Peace

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
Steve Jobs

The most important thing is to find peace within yourself and to share it with others.
Thich Nhat Hanh

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Dalai Lama XIV

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato

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Love And Self-Improvement Quotes About Building Confidence

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball

The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.
Steve Maraboli

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

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle.
Christian D. Larson

Confidence is not 'they will like me'. Confidence is 'I'll be fine if they don't'.
Christina Grimmie

The moment you start to wonder if you deserve better, you do.
Unknown

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

You are the only person on earth who can use your ability.
Zig Ziglar

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.
Rumi

Love And Self-Improvement Quotes About Embracing Vulnerability

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity, and change.
Brené Brown

Vulnerability is not winning or losing; it's having the courage to show up and be seen when we have no control over the outcome.
Brené Brown

Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure.
Natalie Goldberg

Vulnerability is the key to resilience, and resilience is the key to success.
Mark Manson

Vulnerability is the essence of romance. It's the art of being uncalculated, the willingness to look foolish, the courage to say, 'This is me, and I'm interested in you enough to show you my flaws with the hope that you may embrace me for all that I am but, more important, all that I am not.'
Ashton Kutcher

Vulnerability is the only way to connect with others on a deep level.
Sharon Salzberg

Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity. It is the source of hope, empathy, accountability, and authenticity.
Brené Brown

Vulnerability is the willingness to show up and be seen without any guarantee of outcome.
Brené Brown

Vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.
Brené Brown

Vulnerability is the ultimate measure of courage.
Brené Brown

Love And Self-Improvement Quotes About Practicing Forgiveness

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson

Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.
William Paul Young

Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.
Josh McDowell

Forgiveness is not an exoneration of the perpetrator, who surely bears responsibility for the harm caused. Rather, forgiveness is a gift, a release from the burden of anger and resentment that can consume one's life.
Desmond Tutu

Love And Self-Improvement Quotes About Letting Go Of The Past

The only way to change the past is to change the way you think about it.
Anonymous

The past is a place of memories, not a place of residence.
Anonymous

The past is a place of learning, not a place of living.
Anonymous

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence.
Anonymous

The only way to get over the past is to leave it behind. If you spend your time re-living moments that are gone forever, you might miss out on the special moments that are yet to come.
Anonymous

Letting go of the past means that you can enjoy the dream that is happening right now.
Don Miguel Ruiz

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.
Roy T. Bennett

Love And Self-Improvement Quotes About Pursuing Personal Growth

The only journey is the one within.
Rainer Maria Rilke

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
Carl Jung

The only way to do good work is to love what you do.
Steve Jobs

Love And Self-Improvement Quotes About Honoring Boundaries

Love yourself enough to set boundaries. Your time and energy are precious. You get to choose how you use it. You teach people how to treat you by deciding what you will and won't accept.
Anna Taylor

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

When you say 'yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'no' to yourself.
Paulo Coelho

Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.
Eleanor Brown

You are allowed to terminate toxic relationships. You are allowed to walk away from people who hurt you. You are allowed to be angry and selfish and unforgiving. You don't owe anyone an explanation for taking care of yourself.
Unknown

Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball

You can't pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first.
Unknown

The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.
Robert Hand

You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm.
Unknown

Love And Self-Improvement Quotes About Accepting Imperfection

Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, and be good to yourself, because without you, the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
Leo F. Buscaglia

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Thich Nhat Hanh

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.
Amy Bloom

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Carl Rogers

Love And Self-Improvement Quotes About Living With Purpose

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
Oprah Winfrey

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
Robert F. Kennedy

The purpose of life is to live a life of purpose.
Richard Leider

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.
David Viscott

The purpose of life is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love And Self-Improvement Quotes About Cultivating Gratitude

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues but the parent of all others.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
Melody Beattie

Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.
Amy Collette

Gratitude is the healthiest of all human emotions. The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more likely you will have even more to express gratitude for.
Zig Ziglar

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.
Henry Van Dyke

Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.
Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

Gratitude is the open door to abundance.
Unknown

Gratitude is not only when things are good. It’s a practice of noticing the good in things.
Unknown

Love And Self-Improvement Quotes About Developing Self-Awareness

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Carl Jung

The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world.
Toni Collette

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Nathaniel Branden

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Michel de Montaigne

The more you understand yourself, the more silence there is, the healthier you are.
Maxime Lagacé

The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.
Confucius

The more you know yourself, the more you realize how little you actually know.
Unknown

The more you know yourself, the more you can forgive yourself.
Unknown

Love And Self-Improvement Quotes About Nurturing Relationships

The greatest gift you can give someone is your own personal development. I used to say, 'If you will take care of me, I will take care of you.' Now I say, 'I will take care of me for you, if you will take care of you for me.'
Jim Rohn

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
Morrie Schwartz

Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.
Gwyneth Paltrow

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo

The more one judges, the less one loves.
Honore de Balzac

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker

The most important thing in a relationship is not what you get but what you give.
Eleanor Roosevelt

The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds.
Nicholas Sparks

Love And Self-Improvement Quotes About Balancing Self-Care And Selflessness

Love yourself first, and everything else falls in line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Lucille Ball

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama

Love is not just about caring for others; it's also about caring for yourself.
Unknown

The greatest gift you can give somebody is your own personal development.
Jim Rohn

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.
Maxwell Maltz

Love And Self-Improvement Quotes About Celebrating Progress Not Perfection

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Vince Lombardi

Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.
Julia Cameron

Celebrate your progress, not your perfection.
Unknown

Strive for progress, not perfection.
Unknown

Perfectionism is not the same thing as striving to be our best. Perfectionism is not about healthy achievement and growth.
Brené Brown

Perfection is not the destination. Progress is.
Unknown

Celebrate every tiny victory.
Unknown

Celebrate your small wins. They will lead you to your big victories.
Unknown

Celebrate your progress, no matter how small.
Unknown

Celebrate your progress, and don't compare yourself to others. You are on your own unique journey.
Unknown

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