Jean Vanier Quotes

The more we learn to love and respect ourselves, the more we will become attracted to people who will love and respect us and who we can safely love and respect.

The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.

Give people permission to be who they are and they will love, thank, and respect you forever.

In society, we have to earn other things of import like trust, respect, money, education, careers, status and etc., so naturally, we find ourselves attempting to earn love, acceptance and validation along with that. Here's the trip: we do it at the cost of other people and, more importantly, ourselves.

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

I am not racked with self-loathing. Some issues of guilt and shame, but I'm a pretty good guy.

Be as honest with yourself as you possibly can. And it's not going to work for everybody, and I know you're going to be afraid of that, but please don't worry about being accepted by everybody. The people who like you and want to be around you, that's what matters, and that's what's healthiest for yourself.

I try to be good to myself. Look, we're human and people have differences.

I was never appalled by myself. I felt a little bit uneasy about certain things. But honestly I've learned to love myself and to see that in the midst of all my ambition and desire to succeed and my search for approval, I do give things to people. I bring some sort of happiness to their lives. So I'm not so hard on myself anymore.

I'm not saying I'm perfect, or fixed, but I am learning to love and accept myself. My outlook is more positive and I am happy.

Loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves.

Every single human being is trying his best. We're all doing the best we can. But when we believe what we think, we have to live out those thoughts. When there's chaos in our heads, there's chaos in our lives. When there's hurt in our thinking, there's hurt in our lives. Love thy neighbor as thyself? I always have. When I hated me, I hated you. That's how it works. If I hate someone, I'm mistaking them for me, and solutions remain hidden.

And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself?

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.

The biggest parts of healing and making myself whole is to accept all of the many parts of myself.

Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.

As you focus on simplifying your life, make sure that your approach to the process is a loving and accepting one. Know that you are doing all that you can do right now, and that is all anyone can do.

I accept myself unconditionally right now

I try never to compare myself to other people. I just think this is who I am. You are happier when you think that way.

You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

Humans can always accept themselves unconditionally.

I feel like the vast majority of the world's problems would disappear if suddenly everyone on the planet were relatively self-aware and capable of honest self-love and compassion.

Loving Others Starts with Loving Myself

I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect, because I like me.. I think I'm kind of cool.