Terry Goodkind Quotes

People should accept themselves for who they really are and be proud of that and take ownership of that first and learn that self love to really be happy.

I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.

To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.

We live in an epidemic of self-hatred. I see it daily with people coming at me, and they do it to everybody, it's not just me. The hatred is really stemming from them not liking themselves. When you look at it that way, I feel so much empathy and understanding for those people.

You'll be perfect when you're dead

You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.

I would rather have been beaten up in the media than live a life that wasn't happy.

We should not pour muck on ourselves.

To establish true self-esteem we must concentrate on our successes and forget about the failures and the negatives in our lives.

At the end of the day, you won't be happy until you love yourself.

Most people settle because they don't like themselves enough.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company.

Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.

It's when I let myself get little that I tumble head over heels into joy.

You have to feel good about yourself.

it follows that if you aren't happy with yourself, you won't be happy with others.

I think you should be proud of not being worse than just deeply introverted and socially maladjusted.

The greatest value comes from loving yourself for who you are. I've been teaching myself this for years, so I hope that by showing what I've learned, others can find the same freedom and joy I have.

Loving yourself—it really takes a daily practice.

There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don't like who we are.

In man's life, the absence of an essential component usually leads to the adoption of a substitute. The substitute is usually embraced with vehemence and extremism, for we have to convince ourselves that what we took as second choice is the best there ever was. Thus blind faith is to a considerable extent a substitute for the lost faith in ourselves; insatiable desire a substitute for hope; accumulation a substitute for growth; fervent hustling a substitute for purposeful action; and pride a substitute for an unattainable self-respect.

Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

I can't make anybody happy, so I try my best to be good at what I do

You got a lot but you just waste all yourself. They'll forget your name soon and won't nobody be to blame but yourself.