James Patterson Quotes

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

It's important to fall in love with someone you don't want to change.

I've really come to realize you have to love yourself before you can expect someone else to.

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.

I need a woman who is secure and loves herself first. Then she can share that love and light with me.

I want everybody to love me because I want to love back.

The purpose of life is to be loved by as many people as possible among those you want to have love you

As long as I continue to hear 'normal' people telling me I am too childish, I know I'm doing just fine.

You can't love other people until you love yourself.

You have to love yourself before you can love anyone. I think that’s very, very important, no matter how old you are or what you’re doing. You have to be able to love yourself because that’s when things fall into place.

It's what we all wanted when we were children- to be loved and accepted exactly as we were then, not when we got taller or thinner or prettier...and we still want it... but we aren't going to get it from other people until we can get it from ourselves.

The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it is not. It is an existential truth: only those people who are capable of being alone are capable of love, of sharing, of going into the deepest core of the other person without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

You can love other people only to the degree that you've come to love and accept yourself

If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people. -- Lazarus Long.

Remember that the most important thing is to try and love other people as much as they love you.

Love me little, love me long.

You must feel love within, before you can share it.

Don't wait for someone else to complete you. 'Jerry Maguire' was just a movie.

The love affair you seek is with yourself.

I feel more and more that the most beautiful people are the ones who are comfortable with themselves.

We are who we are, and when you accept people instead of trying to change them to fit your needs, your relationships can fully blossom.

...but before I can live with other folks I've got to live with myself.

Until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can't really have a healthy relationship.

I'm grateful that I feel the way that I do - to make choices based on a lot of people's feelings - even though it has been hard at times, especially when I was younger, but I feel like it has led me down the right road for me. I'm very happy with what has come of that.

There's a happiness about me, a confidence and a happiness now that I didn't have when I was younger. You feel good inside, you look good outside. I have a few little gray hairs on my chin, and I kind of like them. I feel like I look like somebody who's having a good life, who's enjoying it a little better than I did before. You can be really good-looking in your twenties but feel miserable, and people just sort of walk away.