Randy Pausch Quotes

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

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 tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.

Be kind to yourself.

I ask women to check the feelings they have about themselves before they do something. If you're doing it out of a sense of desperation and need, don't do it.

We can be kind to others and kind to ourselves - and what anyone else decides to do is up to them. We can just be responsible to ourselves.

It's critical to be able to see things in other people that sometimes they don't see in themselves.

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

If others think I am good with myself, they will, in turn, feel good about themselves.

All pity is self-pity.

Self-love, so sensitive in its own cause, has rarely any sympathy to spare for others.

Make clear that people understand what your circumstances are. And looking for pity - that's a mistake.

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

I don't always understand my worth.

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.

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.

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

I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

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.

I'm not asking people to feel sorry for me.

Hopefully this movie will help people understand that if a child is never given the tools to know how to love others and love and respect themselves, this is what happens.

I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.