Roddy Doyle Quotes

Do not beat up on yourself. Do not criticize your writing as lousy, inadequate, stupid, or any of the evil epithets that you are used to heaping on yourself. Such self-bashing is never useful. If you indulge in it, your writing doesn't stand a chance. So when your mind turns on you, turn it back, stamp it down, shut it up, and keep writing.

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.

Have compassion for yourself when you write. There is no failure - just a big field to wander in.

Offer some gesture of kindness to yourself. Sometimes it's just a message, to say: "It's okay. You're going to be okay. We've been through this before." The intention is reassurance, that you are not alone and you can do this. It is the most powerful way to come out of what I call the "trance of unworthiness."

You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good.

I've never had a writer's block, but still I think: 'Is it going to happen this time?' You never know what you're going to get; you just put your fingers on the keys and hope.

I don't believe in writer's block. Think about it - when you were blocked in college and had to write a paper, didn't it always manage to fix itself the night before the paper was due? Writer's block is having too much time on your hands.

You do not get into better shape being hard on yourself.

We need to make friends with ourselves. We are stuck with our self all day, so let's be kinder, gentler, more amusing company. Let's take our own hand and say, 'There, there, sister. You're doing a good job. I'm proud of how you're handling all this craziness down here. Don't give up. Carry on, warrior.'

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.

You know what? I'm not going to beat myself up. I did the best I can do, and so I'm going to believe that - I'm going to believe good things about myself.

I do force myself to sleep with myself to get the job. But that's always a disappointment.

Accept yourself. Love yourself just as you are. Your finest work, your best moments, your joy, peace, and healing come when you love yourself. You give a great gift to the world when you do that. You give others permission to do the same: to love themselves. Revel in self love. Roll in it. Bask in it, as you would the sunshine.

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

To grow in our ability to love ourselves we need to receive love as well.

Kindness to self will put you in the perfect attitude and position to be kind to others.

Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

Self-love knows no impediment.

I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.

If you had a person in your life treating you the way you treat yourself, you would have gotten rid of them a long time ago.

You gotta love yourself, because when you're hurting - you never know who's gonna be around to do the lovin' for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.

In order to be a friend to anybody, you have to be a friend to yourself. If you're not a friend to yourself, there's no way you're gonna have any friends.

A lot of people say if you can't love yourself, then you can't love others. It's always different, but I definitely have loved a lot in my life.

It is not selfish or narcissistic to love yourself. It is your first and foremost responsibility.