India Arie Quotes

You have to be fulfilled in order for everyone else to be fulfilled. I'm a way happier, more pleasant person to be around when I take time for myself.

To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life.

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

I think it's better to feel good than to look good.

Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.

I miss my hair, but I feel like going out there with some fake braids wouldn't be right. I want to be the most genuine performer I can be.

I think the most important thing in life is self-love, because if you don't have self-love, and respect for everything about your own body, your own soul, your own capsule, then how can you have an authentic relationship with anyone else?

Someone will always have an opinion about you. Whatever you do won't ever be enough. So find something important to you. Find something that you love.

You have to accept who you are in order to make someone happy and be happy.

I stay positive, keep positive energy to myself.

I tried to surround myself with people who have accepted me for being me. And I want to create that image to my fans as well. And that's the advice I give to them. To be happy for who you are, and to surround yourself with people who are happy for being you.

It's okay to be you and okay to be who you are and okay to love and accept yourself.

I just have to do what it is going to make me happy, first and foremost - what is honest and what is sincere. Anybody that listens will hopefully connect with that.

When you've learned to love yourself, you get all the things that come with that. Friends, passion, success.

I feel that I don't have to have it all together all the time. I don't have to be this smiling face for the public.

Anything that's been useful to me as a person has been useful to me as an actor. Anything in the interest of your happiness will affect your work. The more comfortable you become in your own skin, the better you are as another identity.

It's okay to be yourself and to love and accept yourself however you are.

No one is perfect, and no one should be made to feel like they have to be perfect. It's nice that we all have unique qualities that make us different as athletes and humans. That's why it's so important to surround yourself with people who truly care about you.

It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.

I only attract loving people in my world for they are a mirror of what I am.