Karen Finerman Quotes

That is the thing I want to tell girls, to stop criticising yourselves and to stop comparing yourself to other people.

I think the best relationship you'll ever have is the one with yourself. That might even be the most important one.

Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't.

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.

I love myself.

I just try to feel good in my own skin as much as I can.

It's the love you have for yourself that's most important.

Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.

After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.

I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.

I can live with myself.

I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.

I love myself and I am a good person.

I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.

I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

I know many beautiful people and their lives are just so terrible. They feel so uncomfortable with themselves. Being comfortable is not about what you look like, but how you feel.

Love yourself no matter what!

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

Accept yourself, love yourself.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that... I was worthy of being number one to a man.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.