“Give love to whoever deserve it, but expect it only from yourself.”

“Whoever loves you now—and you must also love yourself—will love the truth of you.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything”

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress

“Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

“A good place to start is with yourself. See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance, or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation—to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.”

Jon Kabat-Zinn (1944) American academic

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”

Sharon Salzberg (1952) American writer

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection”

Gautama Buddha (-563–-483 BC) philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism

“The Creator only gives, but does not expect anything from us. He invests in us without expecting any interest in return.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“This is your true self, Tessa. This power is who you are. Whoever loves you now - and you must also love yourself - will love the truth of you.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

“Only one thing is expect of you, and that is that you should come out of yourself and love with all your being and all your light without stopping.”

Michael Elmore-Meegan (1959) British humanitarian