Margaret Cho Quotes

Let's not hate ourselves. We are all we have. ... I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough.

It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.

Certainly, we all have within us the potential to live in a hugely different way. And how happy you can make yourself, I think, a lot depends on how much you beat yourself up about that; and how much you can, in some sort of providential way, console yourself and say, 'Well, it's all worked out for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.'

I've learned lately that no one is going to hand me a permission slip and tell me to take time out for me.

I cannot love anyone if I hate myself. That is the reason why we feel so extremely uncomfortable in the presence of people who are noted for their special virtuousness, for they radiate an atmosphere of the torture they inflict on themselves. That is not a virtue but a vice.

The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. And I think I've been my worst enemy in life, because others haven't been able to do anything to me unless I allowed them to do it.

There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don't like who we are.

He that is a friend to himself, know; he is a friend to all.

He can hardly be a true friend to another, who is an enemy to himself.

When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the circumstances we face, but rather in the way we treat ourselves at the time. Nothing is more dangerous than self-hate. Nothing makes it more difficult to heal or to find the grace of peace than self-attack and the agony of self-doubt.

Who’s gonna make you happy when you’re your own worst enemy?

You can't hate/love others without loving/hating yourself first.

Who taught you to hate yourself?

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

You can forgive yourself a great deal.

Do what makes you feel good. Remind yourself of what you're good at and make sure you do that.

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.

I've always been someone who is pretty hard on herself. But I've lightened up a lot.

Somebody once told me that self-punishment is worse than any other punishment.

For me, when I go to bed at night, I am happy that I haven't hurt someone. And if I think I have, I will rectify it. I now refuse to give someone permission to make me feel bad about myself. They can't make me feel bad about myself if I don't allow it.

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

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

Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance.

I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.