Erwin McManus Quotes

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

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.

Your first responsibility is to yourself and to your own goodness of heart.

The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile at the other’s welcome.

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.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

We are becoming able to see the pursuit of external power for what it is and the futility of trying to escape the pain of powerlessness by changing the world. When we look inward, not outward, we can dismantle the parts of our personalities that have controlled us for so long - such as anger, jealousy, vindictiveness, superiority, inferiority.

I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.

I worried that people wouldn't like me. Now I try not to worry and focus on being happy.

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.

There's nothing more, nothing better in life to wake up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and feel comfortable with yourself and who you are.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

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.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

I've realised I can be happy.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.

I used to hate looking in the mirror. I've grown up into myself and now I'm happy with the way I look.

I think life is about growing into yourself and getting to like that person.

What it's like to be me? You know, it's good to be me. My life is good.

You can't really start living until you can live with yourself.

Once I got done with my career, I knew in my soul that I don't have any negative thoughts about myself.

I'm getting older and I'm just coming to terms that I'm stuck with me so I better try to like myself.