Louise Hay Quotes

To not love ourselves can keep what we want from us.

People sometimes ask when I learned to love myself. But that was not the issue.

If you can't love who you are now, you can't get to the place you want to be.

A lot of people say if you can't love yourself, then you can't love others. It's always different, but I definitely have loved a lot in my life.

Everything in the universe wants to be loved and accepted. Our personal work is to find the love and acceptance within ourselves.

Today I will let go of my need for approval and my need to be liked. Instead, I will choose to like and approve of myself. The people who count (including me) will respect me when I'm true to who I really am.

I think our need to be loved is so great that it's the thing that damages us the most. I think that's something we can find in any person, though some people are more in tune with it or accepting of it or have moved past it and dealt with it or have a healthier thought process about it than others.

You know, I was chubby when I was a little girl. And I have all those issues everyone else has. But I try not to. And I've learned over the years that it's such a waste of time. And people like me whether I'm a little bit fatter or not.

I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

You should seek approval from yourself.

If a person doesn't like me or doesn't like my game, OK, that's how they feel. Can't be upset with it.

I know my family loves me, but the hardest part is to love myself.

I think just... never date anyone who doesn't accept you, and don't change for them. They aren't going to change for you.

I feel like I deserve to be loved because I've learned to love myself.

I've realized I'm not going to please everyone; not everyone's going to love me.

Only you can give yourself the love you need and deserve.

I once read a quote that I think was Michelle Pfeiffer in an article, who said that she thought people went into acting because maybe if you could convince millions of people to like you, you will finally like yourself, approve of yourself. I don't know if that may have been a part of it.

A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.

I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.

Can you truly love anyone if you do not first love yourself? If you hate yourself, can you love anyone else? If you do not accept all of who you are, can you accept anyone else? Hard questions. It remains to be seen whether I get any answers, hard, or otherwise.

I think you have to love yourself before you fall in love. I'm still learning to love myself.

We are forever looking outside ourselves, seeking approval and striving to impress others. But living to please others is a poor substitute for self-love, for no matter how family and friends may adore us, they can never satisfy our visceral need to love and honor ourselves.