Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly regular intervals.

The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. And I think I've been my worst enemy in life, because others haven't been able to do anything to me unless I allowed them to do it.

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

The idea that you're hard to love is ludicrous.

I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?

I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

We feel good and ill only in proportion to our self-love.

A lot of people say if you can't love yourself, then you can't love others. It's always different, but I definitely have loved a lot in my life.

Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.

Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough.

The #1 problem most patients face is the inability to love themselves

It is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment.

Once, in a dry season, I wrote in large letters across two pages of a notebook that innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself. Although now, some years later, I marvel that a mind on the outs with itself should have nonetheless made painstaking record of its every tremor, I recall with embarrassing clarity the flavor of those particular ashes. It was a matter of misplaced self-respect.

Mirabelle is not affected by a man’s failures to approach her, as her own self-depreciating attitude never allows the idea that he would in the first place.

You can only experience love if you have self love.

Nobody could ever say as many terrible things to me as I say to myself.

Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.

Who taught you to hate yourself?

Break from self rejection, try some introspection.