Jenny Zhang Quotes

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

Here's the thing: you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self, but in a guy, you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him.

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

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

I love who I am.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defined by it, you lose our capacity for vulnerability.

You are who you are, and you should love that person.

You've got to be fine with who you are.

I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

Self-love is really a foundation for everything, and however you practice or express that is so, so important.

People sometimes ask when I learned to love myself. But that was not the issue.

I've got to like myself, I think, through my relationship with Sting, who pours love over me.

If you don't embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy life.

I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

Love as if you liked yourself, and it may happen.

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.

It's really important to talk to yourself and look at yourself in the mirror and love who you are.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

I suggest we learn to love ourselves before it's made illegal.

Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself.

When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.

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