Aja Brown Quotes

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

Life is too short to have anything but delusional notions about yourself.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

Ninety per cent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves - so how can we know anyone else?

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

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

I know who I am. When I look in the mirror, I see me.

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

I've grown as an actor. I am more confident within my art form. I have also grown as a person. I am more compassionate, generous, and less judgmental.

If I want to listen to myself as much as I want to listen to Drake or Beyonce, I feel like that's a good sign.

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.

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

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

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.

I have no issues with my identity.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others.

It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.

Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

Some people are more fluid than others at just being themselves and recognizing what's good about themselves.