Hamza Yusuf Quotes

I'm not a great believer in self-help.

I can't really stand self-help stuff myself.

You don't want to vilify your ego.

And I kind of said to myself if I get my voice back I'm not going to take back the old anxiety about it and just focus on the limitations. I'm really going to enjoy it.

Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.

I can live with myself.

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.

Recovery is an ongoing project that is really discrete from everything else in my life. It allows me to be an agent, allows me to write, allows me to be married, allows me to be part of a family. The writing is not a support beam of recovery but a happy consequence of it.

Learn yourself and love yourself.

Self-love is not something that you get in one day or two days. It's an ongoing process, and I go through it every day.

I do know that it takes a lot to look in that mirror and fix yourself.

The most important relationship we have in our lives is the relationship we have with ourselves, and we're not taught about it.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that. I think that probably, at my core, if I had done no work on myself, I would probably be Laura from The Mysteries Of Laura, but I worked hard to be a more stable person because that's what I wanted out of my life.

The most important relationship is the one you have with yourself.

Do what makes you feel good. Remind yourself of what you're good at and make sure you do that.

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.

I really don't need to suffer. I can really become a happy person and still make good music - in fact, better music.

I haven't always been the person I am today. I came into loving myself more than anything or anyone else.

Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.

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.

We all put obstacles in our own path toward personal style, myself included. If we understood why we constructed these practical and emotional obstacles, we might move beyond it to healthier, happier perceptions of ourselves and, ideally, a better sense of self-esteem.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

People should accept being single, because those are the moments you can really focus on yourself, and learning who you are. Then when you get in a relationship, you will be stronger and have a little bit more self-awareness, self-love, and the other ingredients for a healthy relationship.

Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing.