Meshell Ndegeocello Quotes

You do not get into better shape being hard on yourself.

If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life.

I must let go of my need for the world to love me.

I want to love myself and love my life.

I can't control what people think of me, and I stopped really caring a long time ago.

You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

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

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.

I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want.

I gave up shame a long time ago.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

My mother used to say, If other people have a problem with you, that's their problem. It's not your problem. I still have that philosophy today.

I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.

Every day is a reminder to accept myself as I am.

I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.

We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It's impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.

Life is too precious to worry about what other people are saying or what they think.

I think forgiveness is probably one of the greatest forms of self-love there is because you don't do forgiveness for anybody else. My captors will never care if I forgive them... It will not make a day of difference to them at all, but it will make a huge difference to me.

You need to let go of your fear and anxiety of being judged by others.

If you don't know where to find self-love, you're going to spend the rest of your life trying to find it somewhere else.

Forgiving yourself will help with giving yourself strength.