FKA twigs Quotes

When we are looking for validation, that will never satisfy us. When we are looking for affection, for love, a little bit of that will be enough to be complete.

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.

I was motivated by just thinking that if you had all this external success that everyone would love you and everything would be peaceful and wonderful.

I'm not really concerned with the outer success.

As long as I'm happy, I don't care about accolades or anything else.

We all want the same thing, love and acceptance. That's pretty much it. And what I've learned is that unless I'm happy with my side of the nickel, it can change violently - quickly.

I think ratings are something that shouldn't bother you. At the end of it, you should be happy with what you are doing.

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.

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

I've been surrounded by a lot of people who felt that external success would result in them feeling good about themselves. But it just seems extremely unfulfilling to me.

Peace of mind comes from not wanting to change others.

If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.

There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.

For me, success is a state of mind. I feel like success isn't about conquering something; it's being happy with who you are.

Success now is waking up in the morning and being comfortable in my own skin. You can go to a job that pays well, but if you're not happy in yourself or if you're not grateful for what you have, it means nothing.

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.

You have to be satiated with just being authentically yourself at the end of the day.

I think, as long as you're secure with yourself and happy with yourself, it really doesn't matter what the world around you thinks.

I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

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

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.

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