Lately, I’ve been in radical self-love mode. I’ve had to put my travels on hold this year due to a family emergency, so I’m experiencing a good old Canadian winter for the first time in 3 years. If you live in a place with seasons, I’ll confirm something you might already suspect: sun deprivation is very real!
I’ve had to step my self-care up a few levels to match my current reality. Before the winter, I was running every other day. I was playing my guitar, singing, and reading a few times a week—when I felt like it. Now, I’m doing those things every single day. If I don’t, I feel the repercussions.
I’m actually incredibly grateful for this opportunity to show up for myself. I have felt a deep sense of self-respect lately—a gratitude for my own willingness and dedication to do what I needed myself to do …even if it meant making unplanned changes.
I’m also working hard on The Art of Talking to Yourself and getting excited about seeing it come together. It’s been much more relaxing since I moved my deadline and gave myself permission to receive from the people around me. Making these choices has been just as important as changing my habits.
Every day, little opportunities arise for me to listen to what I’m saying to myself. I can take them or ignore them. And each time I make a choice to honour my needs, I feel fuller, more alive, more human. I feel loved by the one person whose approval I really need: me.
I’ve also felt so inspired by the courage and tenacity of the people in the 30 Day Self-Love Challenge group! We started a group challenge on February 1st, and I’m watching so many honest, beautiful, courageous people step up for themselves. It’s helping me step up for myself too.
I got to thinking that February must be a radical self-love month for many of us. In many places, it’s freezing and desperately lacking in Vitamin D. The holidays are long gone, and some of those habits we regressed to in December no longer have any excuses. Our resolutions, if we’ve made them, start falling apart. Valentine’s Day. Family Day.
So, in case you need it, I wanted to give you a dose of motivation and inspiration on your self-love journey. I’ve collected some of my best and favourite self-love quotes from social media. I hope these make you smile!
“Self-love is essential. Until you learn how to feel loved in an empty room, you will not feel loved for very long in any other room.” ~Vironika Tugaleva
“Be kind to yourself. Remember that when you abuse yourself, you will experience the anger, apathy, and regret of the bully as well as the depression, anxiety, and insecurity of the victim. Whatever you do, be kind to yourself.” ~Vironika Tugaleva
“It’s okay to be afraid. It’s okay to hesitate before plunging from your comfort zone. It’s okay to have scars, pimples, insecurities, moles, cellulite, tremors, debts, redness, regrets, loneliness and uncertainty. It’s okay to have no idea what you’re doing. It’s okay to change. It’s okay to move on. And it’s okay to fear changing and moving on. Wherever you are, and whatever you are experiencing, it’s okay.” ~Vironika Tugaleva, In Case You Were Waiting For Someone to Give You Permission
“When you love people, you are curious about who they are, what they think, and how they feel. You watch them closely, wondering about their experience and what you can do to make it more enjoyable. You feel compassion for their pain and seek to make it more bearable. You are eager to learn the unique language of their existence. You want to understand them, inspire them, heal them. What if you could look at your own self this way?” ~Vironika Tugaleva, The Art of Talking to Yourself
“Worth is not something you can buy for 39.99, nor something you can lose with 10 extra pounds. Self-judging people make good consumers. Start a revolution. Love yourself.” ~Vironika Tugaleva
“One thing is for sure—you will make mistakes. Learn to learn from them. Learn to apologize. Learn to forgive yourself. Learn to laugh when it all comes down because, sometimes, it will.” ~Vironika Tugaleva
“If you are kind and generous to other people until you run yourself into the ground, remember—you are a person too. You deserve (and need) your own generosity and kindness too.” ~Vironika Tugaleva
“Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.” ~Vironika Tugaleva
“When we stop looking for someone to complete us, we find completion in ourselves.” ~Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset
“No one sees your strength, do they? No one sees the silent battle you fight against your overprotective mind that’s trying to keep you safe from harm by keeping you safe from risk, safe from connection, safe from honesty. Maybe others don’t see, but you see it sometimes, don’t you? In the mirror, in those eyes, begging for someone to notice. You have noticed. It is real. You are strong. You are fighting for something incredible. Don’t let anyone convince you otherwise—especially not your thoughts.” ~Vironika Tugaleva
“The greatest tool of self-love is self-awareness. Once you truly know yourself, love is the only option.” ~Vironika Tugaleva
“You work so hard to fix yourself, but maybe what you need isn’t another tactic, another book, another expert, another five-step plan. Maybe, you don’t need to be fixed. Maybe what’s really holding you back is the idea that you need to be fixed. Maybe you just need to let yourself play instead of always making yourself do homework.” ~Vironika Tugaleva
“Those who doubt themselves will doubt you. Those who limit themselves will try to limit you. Do not fight them. Smile, goo your own way, and trust that your example is enough.” ~Vironika Tugaleva
“Most people spend their lives doing one of two things to their emotions: numbing or venting. Self-loving people do something very different—they accept each emotion as a piece of communication and they try to decode it. This way, emotions can become important guideposts on the journey of self-discovery, rather than annoying roadblocks.” ~Vironika Tugaleva, What Self-Loving People Do Differently
“Be what you are. Do what you love. Speak what you feel. Don’t hide your humanity. Celebrate it. Embrace it. That is how you change the world.” ~Vironika Tugaleva
You’re welcome to share these quotes wherever you wish. You can also save them or print them. I hope they’ve been inspiring to you! Let me know if there are any other types of quotes you’d like me to compile in the future, and I’ll see what I can do.
Vironika
These are real good quotes to make one feel elated and loved within oneself. Nice posts. Thanks.
I’m so glad you enjoyed them! Thanks for being here, Deepti.