Louise Hay Quotes

It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.

I wish when I was 17, somebody had told me not to care so much about what other people had thought.

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

I just constantly tell myself that I should be the only one to define my worth and what I'm capable of and how I perceive myself. And that I should never source that worth from other people, especially strangers on social media. They don't know who I am, the length of my journey, who I am as a person.

Is it not excessively ridiculous to seek the good opinion of those whom you would never wish to be like?

Your real influence is measured by your treatment of yourself.

Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.

Self-esteem is not based on itself.

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

If you're ever if you're ever thinking, “Oh, but I'm a waste of space and I'm a burden,” remember: that also describes the Grand Canyon. Why don't you have friends and family take pictures of you from a safe distance? Revel in your majestic profile?

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

The most important opinion you'll ever have is the one you hold of yourself.

You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your associates yet regard yourself as worthless. You can project an image of assurance and poise that fools almost everyone yet secretly tremble with a sense of inadequacy. You can fulfill the expectations of others yet fail your own. You can win every honor yet feel that you have accomplished nothing. What shall it profit a person to gain the esteem of the whole world yet lose his or her own?

If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out — since our self-image is untenable — their false notions of us… We play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the urgency of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us.

We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

It's almost like a sign of mental illness to base your self-worth on the opinions of complete strangers, you know?

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

I don't have a strong sense of self-worth unless I'm doing something.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.

I feel like I have a healthy self-esteem.

Magazines and opinions of you and stuff like that, those will change, but your opinion of yourself does not have to based on what other people say. So I just learned that my inner voice has to be louder than their outside voice.

Your self-esteem won't come from body parts. You need to step away from the mirror every once in a while, and look for another reflection, like the one in the eyes of the people who love you and admire you.