Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes

People only hate what they see in themselves.

Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.

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

Every single human being is trying his best. We're all doing the best we can. But when we believe what we think, we have to live out those thoughts. When there's chaos in our heads, there's chaos in our lives. When there's hurt in our thinking, there's hurt in our lives. Love thy neighbor as thyself? I always have. When I hated me, I hated you. That's how it works. If I hate someone, I'm mistaking them for me, and solutions remain hidden.

You can't hate/love others without loving/hating yourself first.

If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?

Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitudes we habitually use toward others, we will use on ourselves.

When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

I think that I'm shy and I judge myself. But at the same time, I also have big contradictions. I can be sometimes sure of myself as well. I'm not always fragile and vulnerable. I can feel tough and strong.

The more defensive and angry I get, the more I later discover those feelings are usually just projections of feelings I am having towards myself.

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.

I think I've finally, after 72 years, gotten used to my voice, and it sounds like a friend now instead of an enemy.

Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have. ... I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough.

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinions than our own.

I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.

Humility is nothing else but a right judgment of ourselves.

I can consider myself my audience, and I'm not that weird. I'm fortunate in the things that I like, most people like.

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

I think it's safe to say that each of us has at least one issue we are passionate about and struggle with, issues that robs us of our peace, our joy and our ability to experience love.