80 Top Quotes From Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It is a transformative self-help book that delves into the profound concept of self-love as a critical foundation for personal growth and happiness. Drawing from the author's own harrowing experiences and struggles, Kamal Ravikant shares an intimate and raw account of his journey from rock-bottom to self-recovery.
Through a simple yet powerful mantra of repeating "I love myself" relentlessly, Ravikant unveils the profound impact of self-affirmation on reshaping one's beliefs, behaviors, and mindset. The book emphasizes the importance of breaking free from the cycle of self-sabotage and negative self-talk to cultivate a loving relationship with oneself.
It's not just about indulging in superficial self-care practices, but rather a deeper commitment to embracing flaws, vulnerability, and personal responsibility. Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It serves as a poignant reminder that true transformation begins with unconditional self-acceptance and love, unlocking untapped potential and the ability to forge a more fulfilling life. (Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It Summary).
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It Quotes
"The key, at least for me, has been to let go. Let go of the ego, let go of attachments, let go of who I think I should be, who others think I should be. And as I do that, the real me emerges, far far better than the Kamal I projected to the world. There is a strength in this vulnerability that cannot be described, only experienced.”
"As you love yourself, life loves you back. I don't think it has a choice either. I can't explain how it works, but I know it to be true.”
“This day, I vow to myself to love myself, to treat myself as someone I love truly and deeply - in my thoughts, my actions, the choices I make, the experiences I have, each moment I am conscious, I make the decision I LOVE MYSELF.”
"This I know: the mind, left to itself, repeats the same stories, the same loops. Mostly ones that don't serve us. So what's practical, what's transformative, is to consciously choose a thought. Then practice it again and again. With emotion, with feeling, with acceptance." (Meaning)
"So I return to the question, "if I loved myself, truly and deeply, what would I do?" The answer comes easy: I'd fly. Fly as high as I possibly can. Then, I'd fly higher.”
"If I loved myself truly and deeply, would I let myself experience this?”
"Real growth comes through intense, difficult, and challenging situations.”
"The truth is to love yourself with the same intensity you would use to pull yourself up if you were hanging off a cliff with your fingers.”
"I sit with my back against a wall, put on my headphones, listen to the music, and imagine galaxies and stars and the Universe above, and I imagine all the light from space flowing into my head and down into my body, going wherever it needs to go.”
"Here we are, thinking that one needs to be in love with another to shine, to feel free and shout from the rooftops, but the most important person, the most important relationship we'll ever have is waiting, is craving to be loved truly and deeply.”
"Darkness is the absence of light.”
"But I can't erase the past, only learn from it. It's ok. Applying what I know makes the present and the future a beautiful place to be.”
"It's easy to wish for health when you're sick. When you're doing well, you need just as much vigilance.”
"The truth is to love yourself with the same intensity you would use to pull yourself up if you were hanging off a cliff with your fingers. As if your life depended upon it. Once you get going, it's not hard to do. Just takes commitment and I'll share how I did it.”
"What if you don't believe that you love yourself? Doesn't matter. Your role is to lay down the pathways, brick upon brick, reinforce the connections between the neurons. The mind already has a strong wiring for love. The body knows it as well. It knows that love nurtures, that love is gentle, that love is accepting. It knows that love heals.”
"If you had a thought once, it has no power over you. Repeat it again and again, especially with emotional intensity, feeling it, and over time, you're creating the grooves, the mental river. Then it controls you.”
"If a painful memory arises, don't fight it or try to push it away - you're in quicksand. Struggle reinforces pain. Instead, go to love. Love for yourself. Feel it. If you have to fake it, fine. It'll become real eventually. Feel the love for yourself as the memory ebbs and flows. That will take the power away.”"So, these tools, like light switches, exist. When fear arises, remember that it is a hallucinated snake or that it's not useful or that it's not real. All three work. There's many more, ones we can come up with ourselves, if we wish. As long as it works, it's valid. Key is this, when in darkness, have a light switch you've chosen standing by.”
"So I ask myself the question, "if I loved myself, truly and deeply, what would I do?" I love this question. There is no threat, no right or wrong answer, only an invitation to my truth in this present moment.”
"The key, at least for me, has been to let go. Let go of the ego, let go of attachments, let go of who I think I should be, who others think I should be.”
"But in simplicity lies truth. In simplicity lies power.”
"Fear, when used properly, is a useful tool. It serves us well when near a blazing inferno or standing at the edge of a cliff. But outside of this, it's hijacked the mind. To the point where it's difficult to distinguish the mind and our thoughts from fear itself.”
"This day, I vow to myself to love myself, to treat myself as someone I love truly and deeply—in my thoughts, my actions, the choices I make, the experiences I have, each moment I am conscious, I make the decision I LOVE MYSELF.”
"Often, the price for not being present is pain. Now,”
"Forget demolishing the grooves of the past. What you're creating is a new groove so deep, so powerful, that your thoughts will automatically flow down this one.”
"After all, it's the things we hold against ourselves that weigh us down more than anything.”
"I once heard someone explain thoughts as this: we, as human beings, think that we're thinking. Not true. Most of the time, we're remembering. We're re-living memories. We're running familiar patterns and loops in our head. For happiness, for procrastination, for sadness. Fears, hopes, dreams, desires. We have loops for everything.”
"I breathe slowly, naturally. As I inhale, I think, I love myself. Then I exhale and let out whatever the response in my mind and body is, whether there is one or not. That's it. Simple.”
"Fighting fear doesn't work. It just drags us in closer. One has to focus on what is real. On the truth. When in darkness, don't fight it. You can't win. Just find the nearest switch, turn on the light. James Altucher, in one of his best blog posts, talks about how he stops negative thoughts in their tracks with a simple mind trick. "Not useful," he tells himself. It's a switch, a breaker of sorts, shifts the pattern of the fear.”
"Step 5: Repeat "I love myself" gently, pausing occasionally to watch your eyes. When the five minutes are up, smile. You've just communicated the truth to yourself in a deep, visceral way. In a way the mind cannot escape. If anyone ever looked in your eyes, knowing that you loved them, this is what they saw. Give yourself the same gift.”
"is a strength in this vulnerability that cannot be described, only experienced.”
"I can't erase the past, only learn from it.”
"Whatever your truth is, live it, share it. The world will respond in ways you never could have imagined. Life will blow your socks off.”
"As long as it works, it's valid.”
"Memory is not set in stone. Any neuroscientist will tell you that. The more you remember something, especially if it's emotionally charged, the more you will reinforce the pathways connecting the neurons. Simply put, the more you think about it, the more you feel it, the stronger the memory.”
"As a wise friend likes to remind me, this is a practice. You don't go to the gym once and consider yourself done. Same here. Meditation is a practice. Working out is a practice. Loving yourself, perhaps the most important of all, is a practice.”
"Often, the price for not being present is pain.”
"Do it again and again. Love. Re-wire. Love. Re-wire. It's your mind. You can do whatever you want.”
"And here's the interesting part. When we love ourselves, we naturally shine, we are naturally beautiful. And that draws others to us. Before we know it, they're loving us and it's up to us to choose who to share our love with.”
"Beautiful irony. Fall in love with yourself. Let your love express itself and the world will beat a path to your door to fall in love with you.”
"The key, at least for me, has been to let go. Let go of the ego, let go of attachments, let go of who I think I should be, who others think I should be. And as I do that, the real me emerges, far far better than the Kamal I projected to the world.”
"What we believe, that's what we seek, it's the filter we view our lives through.”
"I once asked a monk how he found peace. "I say 'yes,'" he'd said. "To all that happens, I say 'yes.”
"stepping through hallucinated snakes builds trust in yourself. You realize that you are more powerful than your illusions. But no book or person can do this for you. Only you can.”
"Patchwork of browns and greens below. How fast the land's changed. How fast everything changes.”
"Loving yourself, perhaps the most important of all, is a practice. The truth is to love yourself with the same intensity you would use to pull yourself up if you were hanging off a cliff with your fingers. As if your life depended upon it.”
"If anyone ever looked in your eyes, knowing that you loved them, this is what they saw. Give yourself the same gift.”
"Here we are, thinking that one needs to be in love with another to shine, to feel free and shout from the rooftops, but the most important person, the most important relationship we'll ever have is waiting, is craving to be loved truly and deeply. And”
"The truth is to love yourself with the same intensity you would use to pull yourself up if you were hanging off a cliff with your fingers. As if your life depended upon it. Once”
"If I loved myself truly and deeply, would I let myself experience this? The answer, always, was a no. It worked beautifully. Because I'd been working on the mental loop, the step after "no" was clear. Rather than solving the emotion or trying not to feel it, I would just return to the one true thing in my head, "I love myself, I love myself, I love myself." This”
"If a painful memory arises, don't fight it or try to push it away - you're in quicksand. Struggle reinforces pain. Instead, go to love. Love for yourself. Feel it. If you have to fake it, fine. It'll become real eventually.”
"It's your mind. You can do whatever you want.”
"There is something to this, the thought of light flowing into my head from galaxies and stars. The concept of light itself. Just like love, the subconscious has a positive association with light. Plants grow towards the light. As human beings, we crave light. We find sunrises and sunsets and a bright moon beautiful and calming.”
"Thousands of years ago, a Roman poet wrote, “I am a human being, therefore nothing human is foreign to me.” I believe it to be true. So if this is possible for one human, it is possible for anyone. The path might be different, but the destination same.”
"The truth is to love yourself with the same intensity you would use to pull yourself up if you were hanging off a cliff with your fingers. As if your life depended upon it.”
"If there’s one thing in life I excelled at, it was getting in my own way.”
"As you love yourself, life loves you back.”
"After all, if you loved yourself truly and deeply, would you limit your life to what you previously thought possible? Nope. You’d blow your own socks off.”
"This I know: the mind, left to itself, repeats the same stories, the same loops. Mostly ones that don't serve us. So what's practical, what's transformative, is to consciously choose a thought.”
"If a painful memory arises, don’t fight it or try to push it away—you’re in quicksand. Struggle reinforces pain. Instead, go to love. Love for yourself.”
"If I loved myself truly and deeply, would I let myself experience this? The answer, always, was a no.”
"Inhale: I love myself. Exhale: Breathe out what comes up. Inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale. Natural. The music flows.”
"Do it again and again. Love. Rewire. Love. Rewire. It’s your mind. You can do whatever you want.”
"Fighting fear doesn’t work. It just drags us in closer. One has to focus on what is real. On the truth. When in darkness, don’t fight it. You can’t win. Just find the nearest switch, turn on the light.”
"If a painful memory arises, don’t fight it or try to push it away—you’re in quicksand. Struggle reinforces pain. Instead, go to love. Love for yourself. Feel it.”
"Fighting fear doesn’t work. It just drags us in closer. One has to focus on what is real. On the truth.”
"Beautiful irony. Fall in love with yourself. Let your love express itself and the world will beat a path to your door to fall in love with you.”
"I write that I forgive myself. For it all. And in that moment of forgiveness, I write that I am clean and pure. Because I know I am.”
"The good news is that once the spotlight shines from within yourself, there is no going back. The patterns of the mind that held you back fall away on their own. Like rusty old armor you don't need anymore. With each insight, there is freedom, a sense of lightness. And growth.”
"The mind wanders, that's its nature. Each time it does, I just notice where I am in the breath. If inhaling, I shift to I love myself. If exhaling, I shift to letting out whatever is in the mind and body.”
"when in darkness, have a light switch you've chosen standing by.”
"The more you remember something, especially if it's emotionally charged, the more you will reinforce the pathways connecting the neurons. Simply put, the more you think about it, the more you feel it, the stronger the memory.”
"it away - you're in quicksand. Struggle reinforces pain. Instead, go to love. Love for yourself. Feel it. If you have to fake it, fine. It'll become real eventually. Feel the love for yourself as the memory ebbs and flows. That will take the power away.”
"Even if you don't do anything else, please do this. It will make a difference.”
"The truth is to love yourself with the same intensity you would use to pull yourself up if you were hanging off a cliff with your fingers. As if your life depended upon it.”
"instead of reading loads of self-help books, attending various seminars, listening to different preachers, we should just pick one thing. Something that feels true for us. Then practice it fiercely.”
"Fighting fear doesn't work. It just drags us in closer. One has to focus on what is real. On the truth. When in darkness, don't fight it. You can't win. Just find the nearest switch, turn on the light.”
"So I ask myself the question, "if I loved myself, truly and deeply, what would I do?”
"Choose one that transforms you, makes your life zing.”
"I once asked a monk how he found peace. "I say 'yes,'" he'd said.”
"If I loved myself, truly and deeply, what would I do?” The answer comes easy: I’d fly. Fly as high as I possibly can. Then, I’d fly higher.”
― Quotes from the book Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It by Kamal Ravikant
Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It Author
Kamal Ravikant is a captivating author whose work delves into the profound themes of self-discovery, personal growth, and resilience. Through his writing, Kamal weaves poignant narratives that resonate deeply with readers, encouraging them to embark on a journey of inner exploration and transformation. One of his notable works, "Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It," offers a powerful lesson in self-love and acceptance. In this book, Kamal shares his own transformative experience and the practices that helped him overcome personal struggles. His authentic and vulnerable writing style creates a genuine connection with the reader, inspiring them to embrace self-compassion and embrace the imperfections that make us human. Kamal Ravikant's voice shines through his books as a beacon of hope and a reminder that genuine self-love is not only attainable but also essential for leading a fulfilling life.
Chief Editor
Tal Gur is an author, founder, and impact-driven entrepreneur at heart. After trading his daily grind for a life of his own daring design, he spent a decade pursuing 100 major life goals around the globe. His journey and most recent book, The Art of Fully Living, has led him to found Elevate Society.
