Shane Koyczan Quotes

I can't do that to myself...

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.

I've had a lot of self-esteem issues.

Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.

Loving and accepting ourselves are the ultimate acts of courage.

The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. And I think I've been my worst enemy in life, because others haven't been able to do anything to me unless I allowed them to do it.

You might as well like yourself; just think about all the time you're gonna have to spend with you.

Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, I recall with embarrassing clarity the flavor of those particular ashes. It was a matter of misplaced self-respect.

I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly regular intervals.

If I abuse myself daily, who can I love?

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.

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.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

I will never be able to fix myself enough to the point I like myself, so I just jumped to the point where I said, 'I like myself as I am.'

Comparison is an act of violence against the self.

I think I'm much less self confident today. I actually went through a quite painful period because of that thinking that I was completely hopeless. But I think that's something that we all go through at various times of our lives and it was quite a sustained thing with me.

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.

I've struggled for confidence and had great doubts about myself. But, personally, I'm not riddled with guilt.

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

I don't get along much with myself.

I know my family loves me, but the hardest part is to love myself.

It's really hard to foster self-love; it really is. I think a lot of people who claim that they do have a definite lack of self-loathing are either lying or just in a place that I don't relate to.