Charles M. Blow Quotes

There are always going to be things you don’t like about yourself or reasons to compare yourself to others, but once you realize that you only get one you, it’s best to just love yourself.

You only get one you, it’s best to just love yourself.

I like who I am, and am puzzled to find that not everybody shares this opinion.

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

Love yourself, so that love will not be a stranger when it comes

I love myself. Because I'm all that I have and if I don't love myself, no one else will. Whenever I feel myself starting to dislike something I tell myself, "This is who I am," so what's the point in disliking it?

Don't you ever wish you were someone else. You were meant to be the way you are exactly. Don't you ever say you don't like the way you are. When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.

I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self-acceptance, and love.

The best thing I ever did in my life was to ask, 'Do I like everybody?' And the answer was, 'No.' So why should everybody like me? If people are against me, so what? I'm against them too.

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

I'll always be Number 1 to myself.

Why should I care what other people think of me? I am who I am. And who I wanna be.

I'm sure I was a great disappointment to many women because I wasn't Errol Flynn. But I'm me. I think that's got some merit.

I love who I am.

You're stuck with being yourself, so the important thing is to find people who like that.

To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.

I'm not sorry for who I am.

Everything that makes us who we are is A-O.K.

I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.

I just worry about myself. I'm just gonna be me and do me. If people appreciate it, cool. If not, I'm gonna still be me.

God made me the way I am, and I accept myself. I am who I am, and I'm proud of myself.

It's okay to be yourself and to love and accept yourself however you are.

I can't change my skin. I won't change my voice. I can't change my confidence.

Total self acceptance is empowering. It means allowing others to see you as they choose, without being offended.