Carolyn Murphy Quotes

I can live with myself.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

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.

Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.

You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.

You don't have to look like George Clooney. You just have to know yourself.

I really have no interest in myself.

I am an open book, and I'm fine being me: I'm not a perfect person.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.

I know my faults, but I'm comfortable with me.

I will never be able to fix myself enough to the point I like myself, so I just jumped to the point where I said, 'I like myself as I am.'

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

This new thing about liking yourself, I find that absolutely appalling. Anyone who likes themselves, I just can't go too close to them. To me it's pure stupidity. But having some peace with yourself, that's quite a relief.

I just don't want to be self-obsessed.

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

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

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

I don't get along much with myself.

When i was younger I was much more self focussed. I was worried about my self-image. I thought I was too fat. I was very critical of myself, and then I met and got to know and understand my husband. He helped me turn myself around. He had such a positive attitude towards life.