Miranda July Quotes

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.

I've always struggled so much just to appreciate myself.

I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.

Even people who believe they deserve to be happy and have nice things often don't feel worthy once they have them.

More than anything, whether it's my dad's fault or whatever, I wouldn't allow myself to be loved. I lived most of my life thinking that I was unlovable, that I was broken goods, or whatever.

I've had a lot of self-esteem issues.

It's really hard to foster self-love; it really is. I think a lot of people who claim that they do have a definite lack of self-loathing are either lying or just in a place that I don't relate to.

I think that people think that since I literally wrote the book on how to love yourself that I love myself all the time, but I don't.

Even though I present myself at the height of glamour and beauty, part of my truth is being desperate and emotional and unafraid of being unattractive.

It is difficult to divest one's self of vanity; because impossible to divest one's self of self-love.

I wish... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we might stand a chance.

I don't love who I am so I'm working on a fix

I need you to love me, I don't like me, either, if that helps.

A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

I don't like myself, I'm crazy about myself.

She was a monster, but she was my monster.

Lao Tzu says: "Accept yourself. Non-acceptance is the root of all the trouble." None of us accept ourselves. The more a person doesn't accept himself, the greater a mahatma he looks to others to be. We are our greatest enemy. If we had our way, we would cut ourselves to pieces in order to remove what was unacceptable.

As a young woman, I was so eager to please that I served others' happiness and even their values before my own. It didn't earn me love, but it did deliver me to a place where I had to choose between what I thought of myself and what other people did. I chose myself.

I never feel sexy. I have a distant relationship with the mirror.

You can't hate/love others without loving/hating yourself first.

Love is how we feel toward those who show us that which is lovable about ourselves.

Self-love . . . is the sole antagonist of virtue, leading us constantly by our propensities to self-gratification in violation of our moral duties to others.

I don’t know. She was a sweet girl. As sweet as they come. I don’t know why I didn’t love her. It’s something you can’t really control.