Lin Yutang Quotes

It's ok not to be ok. Just be true to who you are.

Learn to accept your limits and you'll become a happier person.

the real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself

I guess it has to be healthy, you have to be honest with yourself and I think that's when ego is okay.

You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.

Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.

Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner, you want to be like yourself. I want my fans to know it's okay.

It's our job to first make ourselves feel better and then make ourselves feel good.

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

I think the most productive thing to do during times of change is to be your best self, not the best version of someone else.

I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to.

You're only lonely if you're not there for you.

My philosophy is to be me.

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier.

Real life is the life that's in you, not your circumstances, like where you live or what job you have or who you're in relationship with.