RuPaul Quotes

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

I'm fascinated with human relationships. I advocate the relationship you have with yourself.

All relationship is a reflection of your relationship with yourself.

To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others.

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

You want to feel, 'I know that character.'

I always call myself a recovering narcissist. I lived my life thinking everything was about me.

I believe the arts are the best way to help people go on a journey of self-discovery toward their own compassion and empathy for humanity and themselves.

Binaries aside, we are the products of our relationships with our identities - cities we have built, bodies we have embraced, kindred souls we've cherished, our memories, our dreams, the fears we hide, the pain we hold - identities that cannot be reduced to a collection of labels.

The most important relationship we have in our lives is the relationship we have with ourselves, and we're not taught about it.

Self knowledge begins with the neighbor, the mirror, and just the same with true self-love; that goes from the mirror to the matter.

If you love yourself, if you truly love yourself, then you'll see other people in yourself, and you won't behave that way.

Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.

First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one you have, like it or not, until the day you die-is with yourself.

Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?

Testing ourselves over and again, learning love and love and LOVE!

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.

...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

My true relationship is with myself - all others are simply mirrors of it.

When you learn to get along with yourself, you will know how to get along with everybody.

You can't give it to others if you don't have it in yourself.

The more intimately you come in contact with your own Being, the simpler things look and the easier they are to deal with.

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.