They say...

[Heartlines.]

They say that "No body can love you unless you love yourself"

Something along those lines.

How is this a true statement?
Thoughts?

(Sorry if I've put this in the wrong place)

[Nicole!]

Well the way I see it, if you love yourself you will be more confident and you will just be yourself around people. You won't try and change yourself or your image just to please people. Then people will love the real you rather than a fake facade you put on to deceive them. Thats how I view the quote anyway. I think its a matter of opinion

[facade]

In my opinion, if you don't love who you are... Then you might, will most likely be someone your not. So no one will know the "real" you. In which case, they can't even love you for you. They love you for someone you're not. But if you love yourself, then you'll be yourself, and people will love you for who you are.
So basically... What Nicole said

[jelli1224]

Well in my opinion, I think that if you are not comfortable with who you are and you don't love yourself then if someone else was to come along and tell you that they loved you, you would not be comfortable enough in yourself to see that not only did they mean it and really love you, but you would not want to accept it. Someone who does not love themselves can not see how another person would be willing, or could ever love them. So that might be how this is true, but that is just an opinion.

Angelica

[Pelios]

It may be true if you are talking about romantic relationships but when it comes to other relationships it may not apply. Say for example your parents even if you don't love yourself they will always love you. In romantic partners it is hard to be with someone that doesn't love themselves.

[Reverie.]

I can kind of see the point in that statement. I can understand why loving yourself can come into being loved in return, as I suppose you need a certain amount of self confidence to accept the fact somebody loves who you are. I think, however, there's a thin like between being confident within your own body, and loving yourself TOO much. People who are modest are modest are most probably likely to accept compliments without getting a big head over it.
I agree with the quote to that level, but I don't think it's entirely true. I believe people can help you gain self confidence through loving you even when your love for yourself is at an all time low. But that's just my opinion.

[Brandon]

If you don't love yourself, why should someone have a reason to love you?

[luvflamingos]

To me, if you love yourself, you will have more confidence in yourself; who you accept yourself to be and your appearance. You will appear more confident to others. You will smile and laugh more. You will be happier. In turn, others will be attracted to these qualities in your personality and may love you for the genuine person you are. This is what I see in the quote and is the person I hope to one day become.

[Kate*]

It could be that if you don't love yourself, then you're trying to change to please others and you can't be loved because no one knows who you are. It could also be that people can love you, but you won't feel it because you don't like who you are and you think things like "well they don't or can't love me because I'm not worthy of it" etc. Or maybe people love you, but they feel like the relationship is one sided because you don't love yourself so they feel like they're constantly trying to "fix" you and they get tired of it.

[Angeleyez07]

I believe if you truly love yourself and truly believe in yourself you will truly be ready to love someone else My thoughts.

[WillO'Wisp]

I think to know how to love, you need to learn to love yourself too with that. Loving yourself makes you feel better and happier and more comfortable with yourself and just who you are as a person, and it gives you confidence. Confidence and self-respect are the sexiest things a woman can posess.

[OMFG!You'reActuallySmart!]

I don't completely agree with it because you can not love yourself yet if you're manipulative enough, you can get someone to love you nonetheless. In general though, if you don't care for yourself, in terms of emotions, hygeine, and physical aspects, you show people a mass of self-degradation. Some may be attracted to it but I believe most wouldn't. However, if you care for yourself, that doesn't mean someone will love you either. Also, by loving oneself, that can hint at narcissism, shallowness and egocentric behaviours. So you cant love yourself too much nor too little if you want the best results.

[~Constance~]

If you don't love yourself its easy to push people away....

[Gymnophoria]

I can understand where that comes from, but sometimes it takes another person to love you, you know?
I certainly don't love myself, not by a long shot. But my girlfriend telling me she loves me everyday certainly makes it a little easier to put up with myself. The way I see it, if someone else can find it possible to love me, maybe one day I can learn to love myself a little more.
I guess it could really go both ways. But it's an interesting statement.

[Kira-Kira]

u have to love yourself first if u dont u wont believe the person that loves u truly loves you so u have to love yourself first so u will feel more loved and more self confidence

[Heartlines.]

I think, to answer my own question- I think that people can still love you when you don't love yourself.
Kind of what Nat is saying. Her girl friend loves her when she doesn't love herself. So, I think, Nat's makes the most sense for me.

Thanks for the replies everyone :]

[MusicNumbsThePain]

This statement doesn't really work for me.
I love who I am. I think I'm a great person.
I don't mean it in a conceited way nor do I go around telling people how amazing I am.
But, for some reason, no one seems to like the real me. My only friend right now is my exboyfriend who I'm still in love with but he's got a girlfriend. So, yeah. Recently, I've started to doubt whether or not I'm such a great person.