Anne Lamott Quotes

Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.

The greatest lesson I have learned in life is that I am enough simply because I have been given life. Growing up, I constantly found myself trying to please others because I wanted to be included and validated. I expended myself completely.

As you get older, it's always a process of self-love, learning how to really do that for yourself instead of trying to find it outside yourself.

Love yourself for who you are and just keep going.

I'm not competing with anyone, or begging someone to love me. I feel like I'm loved and I deserve to be where I am.

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth.

It takes a while to really love yourself...

The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.

I think you have to love yourself and you have to have a strong sense of self-love in order to really show up for other people, because if you love yourself, you're not questioning your own mind any more and you are really able to be present and available for others.

If you don't accept yourself, you won't live fully, and if you don't live fully you'll need to get full some other way.

And there is something great about knowing that my only job is to be as happy as I can be about my life, and feel as good as I can about myself, and to lead as full and eventful a life as I can, so that it doesn’t ever feel like I’m just waiting around for some guy to ask me out. And most importantly, it’s good for us all to remember that we don’t need to scheme and plot and beg to get someone to ask us out. We’re fantastic.

You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.

You are absolutely enough the way you are.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

Praise doesn't mean anything to me. I don't judge myself.

I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.

I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

I am not the best. I don't have to be. I am enough.

I grew up on the ragged edge of self-acceptance, where I was holding on to it, but it was easy to fall off. But as I found my way inside myself, I've been able to accept my own hair, my own shape.