Mary Gaitskill Quotes

Only you can give yourself the love you need and deserve.

A lot of people say if you can't love yourself, then you can't love others. It's always different, but I definitely have loved a lot in my life.

I think you have to love yourself before you fall in love. I'm still learning to love myself.

Love yourself, so that love will not be a stranger when it comes

You can't let someone else lower your self-esteem, because that's what it is - self-esteem. You need to first love yourself before you have anybody else love you.

Love yourself and watch - Today, tomorrow, always. To straighten the crooked You must first do a harder thing - Straighten yourself.

Love yourself before any other person. That's when you can really survive on your own.

If you don't love yourself, it's impossible for you to love others. You can't give away what you don't have.

You have to love yourself before you can love anyone. I think that’s very, very important, no matter how old you are or what you’re doing. You have to be able to love yourself because that’s when things fall into place.

If you love yourself, you will be surprised: others will love you. Nobody loves a person who does not love himself.

If you cannot love yourself, you don't know even the taste of love or what love means.

You've got to love yourself first, and until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

But what love got to do with it when you don't love yourself ?

When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.

We only hurt others because we don't love ourselves. Learning to truly love yourself changes your relationship with everyone.

Until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

Unless you love yourself, you can't love anybody. Be selfish.

If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then you are not able of developing compassion for others.

Learn first to love yourself, and then you can love me.

It's the love you have for yourself that's most important.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

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.

You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.

You have to love yourself or you'll never be able to accept compliments from anyone.

It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are.