Mya Quotes

If I could talk to my younger self, I would tell her that you will grow into the woman you've always wanted to be. You will find love. You will be successful. You will be happy.

You've just got to focus on you, yourself, your family, your team... and all the rest is just fluff.

I made the mistake of thinking that external accomplishments would bring me peace. I thought it was about the job or a book or making a name for myself.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

I feel like I had to learn how to take care of myself and find out what made me happy aside from just making films.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.

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

The deepest gift you can learn in life is about self-love, and that's not going to happen overnight.

People are full of great advice... Professors, parents, friends mean well... But in the end, the person driving this thing called life is you. Listen to you. Spend time being alone. Learn your worth. Dream. And never forget where you came from.

Everyone's on their own journey and nothing's going to happen overnight and you're going to have ups and you're going to have downs, but I think that you need to be content with your own journey and find what works for you.

I want to invest time in creating moments for 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.

Loving yourself is a journey, not a destination.

I think that was the biggest learning lesson for me. I realized I can't be anything for anyone else if I'm not the best me for me. Now I just hope to kind of be that message for young girls to focus on yourself first always. Young people, I should say.

When you've learned to love yourself, you get all the things that come with that. Friends, passion, success.

If, through my own personal journey, I can inspire someone else to self-love, that would be the biggest accomplishment.

While the majority of my career has relied on my aesthetics and how I look, I worked hard at keeping a spiritual connection with what was most important, what is inside me.

In my own personal life, it's been pretty hard navigating love, and so I've found this kind of contentment in loving myself and waiting for the world to catch up.

Don't lose your love for yourself and how much you've grown and how far you've come.

What I learned is you have to be forgiving with yourself. You have to be willing to take your time, and you can't expect things from yourself that you can't deliver.

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.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it's holy ground. There's no greater investment.

The best investment you can make is in yourself.