Louise Hay Quotes

I am that which I am, and I am willing to allow all others to be that which they are.

Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.

I know when to say no and when to say yes. I take responsibility for my choices. The victim? She went somewhere else. The only one who can truly victimize me is myself, and 99 percent of the time I choose to do that no more. But I need to continue to remember the key principles: boundaries, letting go, forgiveness after feeling my feelings—not before, self-expression, loving others but loving myself, too.

I made my excuses and left, thinking, really, after a certain age, people are just going to do what they're going to do and you're either going to accept them as they are or you're not.

Feel what you feel, know what you know, and set your relatives free to do the same.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.

I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been, and all that you will be in the future.

He'd forgiven who he needed to forgive, let go of what he needed to, and accepted himself as he was. Archibald Alexander Leach, Cary Grant, and all.

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

It took me 36 years to be able to be by myself and like it.

You learn to accept your own reality.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

I've never been more normal than I am now.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

Love them for who they are, and what they are they are; they are not you. Good stuff, isn't it? You have to live 73 years to get that.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I've fully embraced who I am. I stopped fighting with people and just come to realize, 'This is me. This is all of me.'

I've been accused of being too flexible, too willing to mold myself to men, and that's something I'm constantly working on.

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

For me, embracing my own power is about embracing my right to be an individual.

I'm far more ready to go with the flow now because I am more accepting of myself.

For me, it really is about the self-acceptance... the more time that I spend really accepting and allowing myself to be exactly where I am, the faster it is I move towards what I wanna be doing.

If somebody judges me, then they're not my people, and that's all right.