John Prine Quotes

I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.

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

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

I've gotten to the point where I've gotten comfortable with my awkwardness.

In the past, I think I was scared of showing myself. I thought people disliked me because I received so much hate when I was young. But as I grew older, I realized that there were people who disliked me and people who liked me. So I learned that there was no need for me to be so conscious of what others thought about me.

I've always been someone who is pretty hard on herself. But I've lightened up a lot.

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

When someone says to you, 'Oh, I don't take a good picture,' what they mean is they haven't come to terms with how they look. They take a fine picture, it's just that their image of how they think they look is not in touch with the reality.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

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.

I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.

I'm not quite as cool as I would like to be, really.

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.

I'm searching, as we all are, for ways to feel good about myself. Certainly, looking in the mirror doesn't do it!