Self-Love and Self-Compassion - If Not Now Then When?

There is a reason why so many well respected people talk about loving yourself and showing yourself compassion because it’s key to help you on your way to Live Powerfully.

How many times in our lives do we hear that self-love is important, and how many times do we ignore it and think, when I have the time I will try and focus on it, or it is just relevant for other people?  Well, lovely reader, it is time to start listening!

taking some time out to appreciate yourself is suc a good practice to get into.

And if you need more convincing here is what some others have to say::

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

Loving yourself…does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion.- Margo Anand

You can’t build joy on a feeling of self-loathing. ~Ram Dass

It’s not your job to like me…it’s MINE! ~Byron Katie

Your task is not to seek for Love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. – Rumi, thirteenth century Sufi poet

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives - Louise L. Hay

Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.William Shakespeare, Henry V.

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.- Walt Whitman

Find the love you seek, by first finding the love within yourself. Learn to rest in that place within you that is your true home.- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.- Louise HaySelf-love, 

Whatever you are doing, love yourself for doing it. Whatever you are feeling, love yourself for feeling it – Thaddeus Golas