positive quotes for wife :: Article Creator105 Self-love Quotes To Boost Your Confidence
Like every relationship, the one with yourself requires care and patience. Whether you're already an affirmations aficionado or totally new to the self-care scene, practicing self-love is a great way to boost your confidence.
Self-love can be as simple as journaling, meditating, or just taking a moment to sit with your thoughts every day. Even a simple action like smiling at yourself in the mirror can do wonders for your self-esteem.
Even on those days where you feel like you can't to do anything right, try to hold compassion for yourself and practice positive self-talk. Soon, you won't have to work so hard to remember those affirmations — they'll simply come from within.
It might help to know that you're not alone: some of the most inspiring people in the world have experienced a crisis of confidence.
From Maya Angelou to Michelle Obama, many famous figures have openly spoken about their struggles with imposter syndrome and self-doubt. Luckily, they've also shared words of wisdom and tips to challenge negative thoughts and cultivate a positive inner dialogue.
For those days when you need a little pep talk, these self-love quotes will remind you that you are enough.
Best Self-Love Quotes
"To bring yourself love and happiness, do what you can to bring them to others." — Deepak Chopra "Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element." — Audrey Niffenegger, "The Time Traveler's Wife" "Until you love yourself, you will never know who you really are and you won't know what you're really capable of." — Louise Hay "It is only when you have mastered the art of loving yourself that you can truly love others." — Robin Sharma "Look into a mirror, make eye contact with yourself, and say 'I love me' as many times as possible during the day." — Wayne Dyer 
"Maybe part of falling in love with someone else is also falling in love with yourself." — Nicola Yoon, "The Sun Is Also a Star" "If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person." — Fred Rodgers "You will love again the stranger who was your self." — Derek Walcott "Self-love is an ocean and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. But you must come first." — Beau Taplin "Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another." — Toni Morrison, "Beloved" 
"how you love yourself is / how you teach others / to love you." — Rupi Kaur, "Milk and Honey" "I am sure about myself as a person. I am sure of my talent ... I'm very content. I like the kind of person I am." — Dolly Parton "My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality." — Muhammad Ali "Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love." — Thomas Traherne "Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world." — Lucille Ball 
"When we fulfill our function, which is to truly love ourselves and share love with others, then true happiness sets in." — Gabrielle Bernstein, "May Cause Miracles" "Think thoughts that make you feel good, make choices that make you feel good, and take actions that make you feel good." — Cheryl Richardson "Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore." — Cheryl Strayed, "Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar" "If you have the ability to love, love yourself first." — Charles Bukowski "You may cut me with your eyes / You may kill me with your hatefulness / But still, like air, I'll rise." — Maya Angelou, "Still I Rise" 
"Love and the self are one, and the discovery of either is the realization of both." — Leo Buscaglia "In your own life it's important to know how spectacular you are." — Steve Maraboli, "Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience" "May you always be the one / Who notices the little things / That make the light pour through / And may they always remind you / There is more to life and there is more to you." — Morgan Harper Nichols "I like me. I like my story and all the bumps and bruises. That's what makes me uniquely me." — Michelle Obama "You and you alone are the only person that can live the life that writes the story that you were meant to tell. And the world needs your story because the world needs your voice." — Kerry Washington 
"You are built not to shrink down to less, but to blossom into more." — Oprah Winfrey "Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves." — Princess Diana "To find a happy ending with someone else, first you have to find it alone." — Soman Chainani, "The Last Ever After" "If you don't get out there and define yourself, you'll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others." — Michelle Obama, "Becoming" "Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self." — Priscilla Presley 
"Don't forget to tell yourself positive things daily! You must love yourself internally to glow externally." — Hannah Bronfman "I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything." — Adele "Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone telling you who you are." — Beyoncé Knowles "Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world." — Eleanor Roosevelt "Be a master at loving yourself and people will follow." — Kim Guerra 
"You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company." — Diane von Furstenberg, "The Woman I Wanted to Be" "This life is mine alone. So, I have stopped asking people for directions to places they've never been." — Glennon Doyle, "Untamed" "I've come to a realization that I need to be able to forgive myself for making the wrong choice, trusting the wrong person, or figuratively falling on my face in front of everyone. Step into the daylight and let it go." — Taylor Swift "Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort." — Deborah Day "You deserve a love that's deeper than the ocean / A love that's brighter than the sun / A love that's higher than the mountains / A love that you can only find inside yourself." — Juansen Dizon, "Confessions of a Wallflower" 
"It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn, which is what life is all about." — Oprah Winfrey "If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by what we are, we can all be freer." — Emma Watson "You alone are enough, you have nothing to prove to anybody." — Maya Angelou "If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life." — Anne Hathaway "But the most exciting, challenging and significant relationship of all is the one you have with yourself. And if you can find someone to love the you you love, well, that's just fabulous." — Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw, "Sex and the City" 
"We can only love others as much as we love ourselves." — Brené Brown "I believe self-love is a by-product of integrity. Living true to your values—whether you feel like it or not." — Patricia Moreno "Remember who you were before they told you who to be." —Dulce Ruby "And I can't help lovin' myself / And I don't need nobody else / If I was you I'd wanna be me, too." — Meghan Trainor, "Me Too" "Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape." ― Bell Hooks, "All About Love: New Visions" 
"Do not let what he wants eclipse what you need. He is very dreamy … But he is not the sun. You are." — Sandra Oh as Cristina Yang, "Grey's Anatomy" "I say it ain't bragging if you can back it up." — Muhammad Ali "i found god in myself / and i loved her / i loved her fiercely." ― Ntozake Shange, "Lady in Red" "Treat yourself like someone you love." ― Glennon Doyle, "Love Warrior" "Nothing you resolve to do will make you worthy of love. You are enough right now." — Unknown 
"look down at your body / whisper / There is no home like you.—Rupi Kaur, "thank you" from "The Sun and Her Flowers" "I may be a senior, but so what? I'm still hot." — Betty White "Let me fall if I must fall. The one I will become will catch me." —Baal Shem Tov "Even when muddy / your wings sparkle bright / wonders that heal broken worlds." ― Aberjhani, "The River of Winged Dreams" "Love is inside me. Other people might awaken it or threaten it, but as a capacity, it's mine." — Sharon Salzberg 
"I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me." — Anna Quindlen, "Living Out Loud" "You carry so much love in your heart. Give some to yourself." —Unknown "It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else's job to take care of me but me." — Beyoncé "Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself — what you're wearing, who you're around, what you're doing. Recreate and repeat." — Warsan Shire "Self love is not a place we get to but a place we choose."—Shannon Kaiser, "The Self-Love Experiment" 
"Do your thing and don't care if they like it." — Tina Fey, "Bossypants" "I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that we are." — Anita Moorjani "Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."—Eleanor Roosevelt "Nobody is perfect. I just don't believe in perfection. But I do believe in saying — this is who I am and look at me not being perfect! I'm proud of that." — Kate Winslet "There is no beauty that can compare with the beauty of self-knowledge and the tranquility that comes when you accept yourself as you are." — Sophia Loren, "Women & Beauty" 
"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance." — Oscar Wilde, "An Ideal Husband" "I am too full to be half-loved." — Ijeoma Umebinyou, "Questions for Ada" "As women, we have to start appreciating our own worth and each other's worth. Seek out strong women to befriend, to align yourself with, to learn from, to collaborate with, to be inspired by, to support, and enlightened by." — Madonna "I think in life you should work on yourself until the day you die." — Serena Williams "I promise you, little by little, the healing adds up." — Ella Hicks 
"Plant your garden and water your soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers." — Jorge Luis Borges, "You Learn" "Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we'll ever do." — Brené Brown "Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives." — Louise Hay "Keep watering yourself. You're growing." — E. Russell "This is not the moment to wilt into the underbrush of your insecurities. You've earned the right to grow. You're going to have to carry the water yourself." — Cheryl Strayed 
"No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one's heart better than unconditional self-love." — Edmond Mbiaka "To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness." — Robert Morely "Keep taking time for yourself until you're you again." — Lalah Delia "The things that make me different are the things that make me." — A.A. Milne, "Winnie the Pooh" "Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves even when we risk disappointing others." — Brené Brown 
"You are very powerful, provided you know how powerful you are." — Yogi Bhajan "If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself." — Barbara De Angelis "It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes." — Sally Field "I am my own universe; a galaxy; a solar system. I am the warm-up act, the main event, and the backing singers. And if this is it, if this is all there is—just me and the trees and the sky and the seas—I know now that that's enough." — Dolly Alderton, "Everything I Know About Love" "When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn't healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs and habits–anything that kept me small. My judgment called it disloyal. Now I see it as self-loving." — Kim McMillen 
"When you take care of yourself, you're a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better." — Solange Knowles "You have to believe in yourself when no one else does — that makes you a winner right here." — Venus Williams "Flowers grow back even after the harshest winters. You will, too." — Jennae Cecelia "I've learned to embrace all the things I find about myself, if they're good and even if they're bad. After all, I fall in love with someone because of their flaws. And I've learned to love myself because of my flaws, too." — Cara Delevigne "The same light you see in others is shining within you, too." — Morgan Harper Nichols 
"I was once afraid of people saying 'Who does she think she is?' Now I have the courage to stand and say, 'This is who I am.'" — Oprah Winfrey "You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens." — Louise Hay "Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self." — Queen Latifah "One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others." — Bell Hooks, "All About Love: New Visions" "I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure." — Emma Watson 
"To say 'I love you' one must know first how to say the 'I.'" — Ayn Rand, "The Fountainhead" "I'm not going to apologize for who I am and I'm going to actually love the skin that I'm in. I'm not gonna be striving for some other version of myself." — Amy Schumer "To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."— E. E. Cummings "Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?" — Ian Wallace, "What a Girl Wants" "At the end of the day, you won't be happy until you love yourself." — Lady Gaga 
Quotes for every (and any) occassion
Inspirational Quotes For The Over-50 Realist
Recently, I was getting a haircut and teasing my long-term stylist about the lack of inspirational-quote décor in her salon station compared to the one next to hers. Of course, she knows that teasing her is how I show my love and appreciation to her for not re-sculpting my earlobes with her straight razor or making my hair look like it was styled with a package of firecrackers.
Our discussion had us both laughing about how corny and unrealistic some inspirational quotes can seem, especially for those of us who are 50 or older. Take this one, for example, which is attributed to Oscar Wilde:
"With age comes wisdom."
Now, I know what Oscar was getting at, but as I've aged, I've come to believe that a more accurate quote would be along these lines:
"With age comes wisdom – if you can remember where you put it."
Below are some other inspirational quotes for the over-fifty realist. (Feel free to decorate your workspace with them.)
We'll start with a few quotes related to the over-50 anatomy, what's left of it, anyway:
"Seizing the day will probably require Tylenol tomorrow."
"Sticks and stones may break my bones, and if I bend down too fast to pick them up, I'll throw out my back."
"Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man yawny, grouchy and tired."
"There is a difference between listening and hearing, and you can't do either if you don't take a hedge trimmer to all of that disgusting hair in your ears."
"You are what you eat, but if you want a six-pack stomach, it had better be bottled water–and it probably still won't work."
"Follow your dreams – just not the one about suddenly discovering that you're naked in public."
"Play like a champion every day, which often means being on the injured reserves with a hernia."
"Count your blessings, not the number of times you have to get up to go to the bathroom each night."
And more bathroom inspiration,
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself – and the aftermath of too much Tex-Mex."
How about some inspiration from our children?
"Children are a gift – until they reach puberty. Then they're more like that weird bump that came up right in the middle of your back."
"She believed she could, so she did (right after she borrowed her dad's credit card)."
"The best things in life are free – except for children, pets, Tex-Mex, a decent mattress, air conditioning, comfortable underwear . . . ."
And while we're on the subject of non-free things,
"Home is where the heart is. It's also where appliance repairs will cost you at least $300."
We'll close with some inspirational randomness:
"If at first you don't succeed, try a different screwdriver."
"It's always darkest before the dawn, especially during Daylight Savings Time."
"Teamwork makes the dream work because you're the one who does all the work and everyone else on the team is a doofus."
And my favorite,
"Believe in yourself – even when your wife points out that you've put on your expensive, comfortable underwear inside out and backwards."
I hope you've gained some inspiration from these quotes, but if you think they're "cringey" or "mid," I hope you're enjoying your dad's credit card.
Jase Graves is an award-winning humor columnist from East Texas. His columns have been featured in Texas Escapes magazine, The Shreveport Times, The Longview News Journal, and The Kilgore News Herald. Contact Graves at susanjase@sbcglobal.Net.
55 Birthday Quotes To Celebrate Your Loved One's Special Day
Birthdays are often the most eagerly anticipated occasion of the year, filled with laughter, excitement, and of course, birthday gifts. Beyond all the sprinkles, songs, presents and birthday quotes, birthdays are also a reminder to cherish the people who fill our lives with joy.
Whether you're blowing out the candles yourself or celebrating alongside friends and family, take a moment to think about all the amazing memories you've shared over the past year.
Birthday parties are the perfect time to show your loved ones how much you cherish them, whether you bake them a delicious birthday cake, dazzle them with candles and sparklers, or bring a tear to their eyes with a touching birthday card.
After all, birthday festivities are always appreciated, but a sweet birthday message is a thoughtful way to make your loved one's big day feel even more meaningful.
If you're searching for a sentiment that's a little less generic than your average convenience store card, a thoughtful birthday quote will add a special touch to your next celebration.
There's a birthday quote for every age, stage, and state of mind, whether you're full of festive fun or apprehensive about growing older. (After all, everyone has a birthday, from philosophers to pop stars.)
These inspirational, funny, and sentimental birthday quotes capture all the emotions that you might experience after another lap around the sun.
Inspirational birthday wishes
"Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years." — Ausonius "The way I see it, you should live every day like it's your birthday." — Paris Hilton "Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new." — Sammy Hagar "You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." ― Les Brown "A birthdate is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life." ― Amit Kalantri, "Wealth of Words" 
"You don't get older, you get better." — Shirley Bassey "When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back. Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time." — Rick Warren "There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know." — Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass" "Why party like it is 1999 when you can party like it is your birthday?" — Prince "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate." — Oprah Winfrey 
"Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same." — Audrey Hepburn "Every day is a gift. But some days are packaged better." ― Sanhita Baruah "It takes a long time to grow young." — Pablo Picasso "Each 10 years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Youth has no age." — Pablo Picasso "Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it." — Maya Angelou Funny birthday quotes
"All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much." — George Harrison "Eventually you reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it." — Will Rogers "The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age." — Lucille Ball "Birthdays are a great time to stop and appreciate gravity. Sure, it makes things sag as you get older, but it also keeps your cake from flying all over the room, so you don't have to chase it." — Greg Tamblyn "Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research." — Carl Jung 
"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake." — Bob Hope "Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself." —Tom Wilson "I know my wife won't tell her right age. Last week was the anniversary of her birthday; she was twenty-six for the twelfth time. No wonder everybody says she holds her age well." — Joe Laurie, Jr. "A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age." — Robert Frost "You've logged so many miles in the voyage of life that you've been upgraded to first class!" — Evelyn Loeb 
"Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time." — Douglas Coupland "But after all, what are birthdays? Here today and gone tomorrow." — Eeyore, A. A. Milne "As I approach my 90th birthday, my friends are asking how it feels like, to have completed 90 orbits around the sun. Well, I actually don't feel a day older than 89!" — Arthur C. Clarke "To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am." — Bernard Baruch "It's the nicest birthday I've ever had. You've made a happy man very old." — Morrissey 
"I have a terrible time remembering exactly when my birthday is. Age is totally boring." — Diana Vreeland "What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away." — Rodney Dangerfield "Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!" — Robert Orben Thoughtful birthday quotes
"We turn not older with years, but newer every day."— Emily Dickinson "It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm." — Sam Levenson "Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears." — John Lennon "I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism." — Virginia Woolf "We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves." — Bernard Baruch 
"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is the work of art." — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec "I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day." — Aimee Bender "The day you're born is not the day you grow, it's the day you evolve. The revolution is up to you." ― Goitsemang Mvula "The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive." — G. K. Chesterton "I love to think that the day you're born, you're given the world as your birthday present." — Leo Buscaglia 
"A person's birthday should be a special day, a wonderful day, a day of pure celebration for the luck of being born!" — Elise Broach, "Shakespeare's Secret" "Believing, hear, what you deserve to hear: / Your birthday as my own to me is dear / But yours gives most; for mine did only lend / Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend." — Martial "Most of us can remember a time when a birthday — especially if it was one's own — brightened the world as if a second sun had risen." — Robert Wilson Lynd "You continue to learn more and more about yourself every day." — Bruce Lee "If you're blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there's so much wisdom to be gained from people who are celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace." — Oprah Winfrey 
"We become more characteristic of who we are simply by lasting into later years; the older we become, the more our true natures emerge." — James Hilman "Age is a limit we impose upon ourselves." — Robert Riskin "My Birthday! What a different sound / That word had in my youthful ears." — Thomas Moore "If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness." — Aberjhani "My birthday began with the water — birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name." — Dylan Thomas From our birthday, until we die, / Is but the winking of an eye." — William Butler Yeats
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