Dorothy Day Quotes

As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.

The will to grow is, in essence, the same phenomenon as love. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

I find that we must be careful not to judge or weigh in on anything other than ourselves. I am living and learning this still!

I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.

When we learn new behaviors and break through to higher levels of consciousness and love, we can fulfill the deeper spiritual hunger within.

I've gotten to the point where I've gotten comfortable with my awkwardness.

I'm really into Deepak Chopra and self-help books.

What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.

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.

So your first job is to work on yourself. The greatest thing you can do for another human being is to get your own house in order and find your true spiritual heart.

If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.

People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than any other, and which includes all other things: the improvement of their soul

You look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.

What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love.

If you want to understand yourself, Then do not examine yourself. Just love yourself more sincerely, More soulfully And more self-givingly.

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

I've always been someone who is pretty hard on herself. But I've lightened up a lot.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

I listen to myself, I listen to my body, my mind; I follow my heart.