Oscar Levant Quotes

I think you have to love yourself before you fall in love. I'm still learning to love myself.

You have to fall in love with yourself first, and if someone wants to join you, more power to them!

Your self-esteem won't come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in a while, and look for another reflection, like the one in the eyes of the people who love you and admire you.

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

It took me a very long time to be comfortable in my own skin.

If, through my own personal journey, I can inspire someone else to self-love, that would be the biggest accomplishment.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company.

It takes a while to really love yourself...

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

I love who I am.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.

I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to let go is your self-image. That's what I'm working on now.

I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.

I try to remind myself of the things that I like about myself that make me who I am.

I'm still learning to love myself.

In general, for me, a big thing in my life has been just sort of learning what true self-esteem is and what true positive self-image is. And being a dancer, and growing up in that world, you're so focused on yourself, and you're so focused on achieving goals, on finding perfection, and working on your craft.

I know during my transition it was difficult for me to stop believing I would be stuck unhappy forever, but that's not true. Physical changes take a while but internal feelings of changing and finding your peace can take way longer.

I'm learning to accept myself. I'm still in the process of learning to love who I am. And it's been really refreshing and really nice to be able to do that and be okay. I think my fans have brought that out in me.

You can't let someone else lower your self-esteem, because that's what it is - self-esteem. You need to first love yourself before you have anybody else love you.

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.

Only you can give yourself the love you need and deserve.

I'm getting older and I'm just coming to terms that I'm stuck with me so I better try to like myself.

Self-love is not something that you get in one day or two days. It's an ongoing process, and I go through it every day.