Nick Hornby Quotes

I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.

I think it's safe to say that each of us has at least one issue we are passionate about and struggle with, issues that robs us of our peace, our joy and our ability to experience love.

When I was married, I wasn't loving myself. Now I'm in love with myself. I will get married again.

I think one great tip is that you should always love yourself. If you don't love yourself, take care of yourself, cater to yourself and that little inner voice, you will really not be very worthy of being with someone else, because you won't be the best version of you.

Now I look back and think if I'd spent more time enjoying myself instead of crying into my pillow over men, my 20s would have been fabulous!

I surround myself with people who really understand and love me. I think that's the best thing I can do.

If you don't have a healthy relationship with yourself, how can you with anyone else? Even if it's not healthy, I imagine it's a lot of fun. And healthy or not, I still think there can be a lot of love.

They say you'll be blooming when you're in love; I agree, but what is important to bloom is taking care of yourself, too.

It is suggested to us a million times a day that our bodies are projects. They aren't. Our lives are. Our spirituality is. Our relationships are. Our work is.

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.

Be a loving person rather than in a love relationship - because relationships happen one day and disappear another day. They are flowers; in the morning they bloom, by the evening they are gone.

Every small thing grows when you nurture it, Rosie. Love is just the same. But if that is making you miserable then, leave and find something else that brings you happiness you deserve to feel.

Had we not loved ourselves at all, we could never have been obliged to love anything. So that self-love is the basis of all love.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

It's occurred to me I need to laugh at myself more, and that I don't need to be some sad folk singer all the time. I don't want to be the queen of pain.

Love is not as important as good health. You cannot be in love if you're not healthy. You can't appreciate it.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

I love my personal life and having a social life. And I didn't ever want to have to compromise.

Girls and guys are like a bus stop - they come and go. You never know, like, who's going to be the right one, and what I've been taught is you really gotta figure out who you are first before you can really give yourself to someone else.

It's the love you have for yourself that's most important.

I didn't start out about weight loss. I was very tired and my energy was low. This is my second go-around in love, so I want to make sure I'll be around to enjoy it.

Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

When you wake up and learn to love yourself and want to take care of yourself, things are harder because people don't like the idea of it. But when you get in trouble, it gives people things to talk about.

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

If I didn't love the hourglass, I wouldn't love myself.