Jewel Quotes

Forgiving yourself will help with giving yourself strength.

To my younger self, I would say not to be so hard on yourself. I think that you are your biggest critic.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.

I am learning to forgive my inner geek, and even value him as a free man.

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

By loving yourself, you're going to be a happy person. A lot of people don't like themselves for whatever reason.

You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.

After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me anywhere.

My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.

I can live with myself.

I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

I want people to feel good about themselves.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

Don't waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can't do it all. Why berate yourself for not achieving the impossible?

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

A role model can teach you to love and respect yourself.

I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.

One way to feel good about yourself is to love yourself... to take care of yourself.

We all just need to love ourselves and believe in ourselves.