Louise Hay Quotes

If I wait until I become perfect before I love myself, I will waste my whole life. I am already perfect right here and right now. I am perfect exactly as I am.

I love myself for all my mistakes and missteps. They have been very valuable to me. They have taught me many things. It is the way I learn. I am willing to stop punishing myself for my mistakes.

I’m not perfect and I don’t have to be.

Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

I'm not a perfect person. I never will be. I'm not going to try to be.

Learning to love yourself is not going to happen overnight - the first step is trying to be kinder and more patient with yourself, and I understand that it takes time.

Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

I love what I do, and I always make sure to tell my fans I'm not perfect, so don't think I am. I make mistakes. I'm human, and we all are. But I try to be the best I can be, and that's all I really can do.

Today, I will focus on having a good relationship with myself.

If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.

I am now willing to forgive myself . . . for believing I could offer something to others before I have offered it to myself.

Each of you is perfect the way you are ... and you can use a little improvement.

I can't overestimate the importance of accepting ourselves exactly as we are right now, not as we wish we were or think we ought to be.

Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.

You're not going to be perfect, you're not going to stop berating yourself, you're not going to stop the comparisons, you're not going to stop the judgment, but you can become evermore mindful of it, and that has to be good enough.

There is no need to punish yourself. Simply notice what you've been choosing and choose again.

Fake Is that what you are if you choose to improve the basic not perfect you?

To be authentic is to be at peace with your imperfections.

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

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

Certainly, we all have within us the potential to live in a hugely different way. And how happy you can make yourself, I think, a lot depends on how much you beat yourself up about that; and how much you can, in some sort of providential way, console yourself and say, 'Well, it's all worked out for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.'