Brene Brown Quotes

It's really hard to foster self-love; it really is. I think a lot of people who claim that they do have a definite lack of self-loathing are either lying or just in a place that I don't relate to.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

You are absolutely enough the way you are.

I know that when I attached my sense of identity a little too closely to my work that I might be distracting myself from feelings of unworthiness. It wasn't the number of hours I worked or how bloodshot my eyes were that defined the difference. It was something internal.

Nobody is more worthy of love in the entire universe than you. I wish I had reminded myself of that more.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

The secret is not to care what anyone thinks of you.

I've always been drawn to the message of 'Be yourself. Love yourself.' I need to be reminded of that all time.

Be kind to yourself.

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

It's very difficult to be fully accepting of who you are when you've got that superficial world out there.

Love yourself no matter who you are or where you come from.

There are times when you're being judged on your appearance and you're not feeling your best self. It hurts, but as I always say, I try and be 100 percent myself all the time. So if I'm rejected, it just hurts that little bit less because at least I was myself.

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.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

I have learned to become not an M.D. but a 'C.D.' for the wounded people I meet. Yes, a 'Chosen Dad' who may not like their behavior but loves and reparents them and helps them to heal their lives and find self-worth and self-esteem and save their lives.

Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.

I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.

Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.

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.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

The pressure to be pretty? I set, you know, boundaries and goals for myself. I try not to compare myself to anyone else because I will never be anyone else except myself. So I try and stay true to me, and hopefully the right projects will come my way.

You have to be able to love yourself because that's when things fall into place.