Mason Cooley Quotes

I need you to love me, I don't like me, either, if that helps.

Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

Confidence is a fragile thing.

Self-love is a busy prompter.

In your whole life nobody has ever abused you more than you have abused yourself. And the limit of your self-abuse is exactly the limit that you will tolerate from someone else. if someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.

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.

Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you can commit.

Until I learned to love myself, I was never ever lovin' nobody else.

We live in an epidemic of self-hatred. I see it daily with people coming at me, and they do it to everybody, it's not just me. The hatred is really stemming from them not liking themselves. When you look at it that way, I feel so much empathy and understanding for those people.

We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.

There is so much in the world to hate, why hate yourself?

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

My therapist told me I need to learn to love myself. It sounds easy enough, but really, how do you just wake up one day and learn that? It feels like something you should just do involuntarily, like swallowing or blinking, but now I have to work on it. It feels so forced. I mean, I know I went to a good school, and people tell me I'm smart and creative, but I don't KNOW that. I don't know how to make myself feel that.

You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.

I don't always understand my worth.

I was a kid who didn't have a lot of self-esteem.

I know that when I attached my sense of identity a little too closely to my work that I might be distracting myself from feelings of unworthiness. It wasn't the number of hours I worked or how bloodshot my eyes were that defined the difference. It was something internal.

I had low self-esteem. I just really wanted attention and love from somebody.

I feel confidence in myself, but at the same time there's these cracks in the facade and those little things underneath that are unstable.

The truth is you only have yourself to offer. And when you come to that realization, it's terrifying, because you think it's probably not enough.

Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.

I think everybody, especially every woman that you speak to, has gone through periods of their life where they feel uncertain or insecure. But I've been fortunate in my own life never to have gone through extended periods of crippling insecurity.

I will never, ever sit here and say, 'Oh my God, I'm so confident now, I love myself', because I don't.

I'm not sure I'm very confident at all. There was a lot of my life when I thought I was fundamentally unlovable.

Only you can give yourself the love you need and deserve.