Louise Hay Quotes

We're all blemished. Yet we do love and are loved.

Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you.

I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.

Learning to give up on perfection may be just about the most romantic move any of us could make.

I have a soft spot for children.

Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.

At the end of the day, the only thing I ever wanted to feel was loved. So I think if I could give someone a piece of advice, it's really learn how to be kind to yourself. In all of our ugliness and all of our brokenness and our bad choices, to really learn to nurture that part of yourself that can be your own big sister in a way.

It seems we need someone to know us as we are - with all we have done - and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please.

I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.

That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Treat yourself as your own beloved child.

Be loving, and you will be lovable. Be open and receptive to love.

For when I can love all of me, I will love all of you.

Never mind. The self is the least of it. Let our scars fall in love.

It is going to take a very brave man to love me.

I've always had a strong love and a sense of care for kids. And the one thing is evident and is so true - the kids are our future.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.

If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I understand now that the vulnerability I've always felt is the greatest strength a person can have. You can't experience life without feeling life. What I've learned is that being vulnerable to somebody you love is not a weakness, it's a strength.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

You deserve love and you'll get it.

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.