Franz Grillparzer Quotes

Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.

But respect yourself most of all.

Friendship with oneself is all important.

Respect starts with ourselves.

We set the standard of how we want to be treated. Our relationships are reflections of the relationships we have with ourselves.

Many of us harbor hidden low self-esteem. We deem everything and everyone more important that ourselves and think that meeting their needs is more important than meeting our own. But if you run out of gas, everyone riding with you will be left stranded.

Self-deprecation is not an answer to keeping one's balance. I think that it's very damaging.

* The essential respect is the one in your own heart for yourself.

When you accept and appreciate yourself you can handle any situation with class, dignity and respect.

For me, when I go to bed at night, I am happy that I haven't hurt someone. And if I think I have, I will rectify it. I now refuse to give someone permission to make me feel bad about myself. They can't make me feel bad about myself if I don't allow it.

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

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.

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.

Healthy shame is an emotion that teaches us about our limits. Like all emotions, shame moves us to get our basic needs met.

That's something we should be taught as kids: To be okay with ourselves.

Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?

You have to be able to appreciate who you are.

It was kind of a hard lesson when I figured out that not everybody is going to be kind, be sweet. So I've learned that I am never going to make everybody happy. There's always going to be someone who can't stand the way I write, and I can't take that personally.

The deepest gift you can learn in life is about self-love, and that's not going to happen overnight.

I think, when you value yourself and respect yourself, everything else just falls into place.

If a person doesn't like me or doesn't like my game, OK, that's how they feel. Can't be upset with it.

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

You are neither better nor worse than anyone else. I learned at a young age how to maintain this balance.