Louise Hay Quotes

Your real being only flowers with unconditional love. Ambition is against love. Anything that is against love is against you and your real life.

My wealth is in my knowledge of self, love, and spirituality.

We cannot give what we do not have: We cannot bring peace to the world if we ourselves are not peaceful. We cannot bring love to the world if we ourselves are not loving. Our true gift to ourselves and others lies not in what we have but in who we are.

I was constantly looking for things outside of myself to make me feel good, and I think now that feeling can come from the inside, and that's why I meditate now twice a day.

What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking.

You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.

When one is a stranger to oneself, then one is estranged from others, too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core, is one connected to others. And for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through silence.

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.

To know one's Self is to be blissful always.

Be at peace with yourself first and then you will be able to bring peace to others.

Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings.

Friendship with oneself is all important.

I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.

The secret of the world is this: the world is entirely circular and you will go round and round endlessly, never finding what you want, unless you have found what you really want inside yourself. When you follow a star you know you will never reach that star; rather it will guide you to where you want to go. Its a reference point, not an end in itself, even though you seem to be following it. So it is with the world. It will only ever lead you back to yourself. The end of all your exploring will be to cease from exploration and know the place for the first time.

Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken, can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world.

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

The most good you can do for yourself spiritually is to live your life with total love, conviction, and purpose.

The most satisfied and enlightened people realize that successful and dynamic living starts from within. Before you can care for others, you must care for yourself.

The reason we might lose love is because we are always looking outside of us, thinking that the object or action of love is out there. That is why we allow the love, the harmony, the mature understanding, to slip away from ourselves.

Love can come when you're already who you are, when you're filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.

I must conquer my loneliness alone. I must be happy with myself or I have nothing to offer you. Two halves have little choice but to join; and yes, they do make a whole. But two wholes when they coincide... that is beauty. That is love.

The more intimately you come in contact with your own Being, the simpler things look and the easier they are to deal with.

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.