What does it mean to have self-love? It means respecting yourself, empowering yourself, and having faith and hope in yourself. Finding love within yourself means accepting and respecting the girl you are. Love is the best emotion humans have. If you don’t love yourself how can others love you? Love is accepting your flaws, loving yourself for who you are, and understanding yourself as an individual. If you are funny, serious, shy, outspoken, short, or tall love yourself. You are beautiful, and you matter. Self love is the ability to believe in yourself.

Girls, remember you can show the world you have self-love by the way you represent yourself. Everyone wants to represent themselves in their own way but remember to always own it. Create a statement for yourself. The way you act and what you wear reflects what other people think about you and let others know you love yourself. Have confidence in yourself, do not sell yourself short.

Respect yourself. Respect the way you are and let yourself shine. Everyone is different and everyone has a purpose in the world. Do not let being the perfect ideal girl get in the way of how you love yourself. If anything, love yourself for not being the ideal girl. Who wants to be normal or average or look the same way everyone else does? Not me. Love yourself for yourself. You deserve to have confidence and be your own individual. Do not be anyone you are not meant to be. Accept the person you are and want to be.

Empower yourself by getting to know yourself and your strengths and weaknesses. Remember everyone has weaknesses; do not let that get you down. Own your weakness, and do not let anyone know. Have faith, and hope in yourself. You can do anything you set your mind to. Having faith and hope creates purpose in your life, as well as makes you stronger. Love your faith and believe in your hope within yourself. You owe it to yourself to find all these things within and fall in love with every piece.

Find self-love before you give love or receive love. If you do not love yourself that means you don’t know what you are worth. If you do not know what you are worth than no one else will. Don’t change for love. If someone truly loves you they will love you like you love yourself. They will accept you and respect you. They will love you for you. Don’t give love to someone who doesn’t respect your self–love, they don’t deserve you. Guys cannot create your self-confidence, you have to build it and believe it yourself. You will never be truly satisfied if you are just relying on other people's love. Your heart will not be complete until you learn to love yourself. Your heart will not trust or fully be open to other love. Do not let yourself break your own heart. Take pride in who you are and someone who also takes pride in themselves will come in your path.

It is never easy being a girl with self-confidence. Someone will always be there to try to tear you down, but your worst enemy is yourself. Do not talk yourself into thinking you are less than anyone else. Do no let others take over what you are. Win the battle and love yourself. Love yourself and believe in yourself. Everything you are matters, you are your own person. You create your self-image and you have to learn to accept it. I started loving myself when I finally realized who I was. I started to believe I mattered and that I was beautiful. I found a sense of peace and light within myself. I accepted myself for being goofy, short, strong-willed, having curly hair, little feet, freckles, and a big heart. I love myself for all the qualities that make me my own individual. Self-love is the best love because I am who I am.