Phoebe Robinson Quotes

The truth is that we don't need everyone to like us; we need a few people to love us. Because what's better than being roundly liked is being fully known - an impossibility both professionally and personally if you're so busy being likable that you forget to be yourself.

If you express yourself too much, you're considered weak.

Women should stop going for the bad guys, stop looking so far when the good ones are right there.

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

I don't believe I've ever truly been in love because I don't believe that I've known myself well enough in the past to allow someone to love me.

We're human beings trying to love each other. There are constant revelations and room for growth.

You have to love yourself. That's the single most powerful thing. Out of that springs: How are you eating? How are you exercising? How are you resting?

You want to love unconditionally everything you do, or don't do it.

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.

Here's the thing: you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self, but in a guy, you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him.

You're not a star until you love yourself. Directors, yeah, they've got to love their own philosophies. But actors have to really love themselves.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.

I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.

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

I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.

Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.

I'm emotionally in tune with my feelings and what people mean to me, and I have no trouble saying it and relating to it.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

I'm coming from a place of total strength and humility now.

I must learn to love the fool in me - the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries.

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

They tell me that it will be hard to find a man strong enough to love my own strength and independence, and not worry about being Mr. Diana Ross, but I disagree. I know absolutely that that man is somewhere out there.