Theodore Isaac Rubin Quotes

Beauty is being in harmony with what you are.

I am at peace with all my actions.

The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.

Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.

Compassion for ourselves gives rise to the power to transform resentment into forgiveness, hatred into friendliness, and fear into respect for all beings.

I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self-acceptance, and love.

Self-love is the starting point for everything.

You are.

Self-love is really a foundation for everything, and however you practice or express that is so, so important.

You can't really start living until you can live with yourself.

I grew up on the ragged edge of self-acceptance, where I was holding on to it, but it was easy to fall off. But as I found my way inside myself, I've been able to accept my own hair, my own shape.

You have to accept who you are in order to make someone happy and be happy.

I think, when you value yourself and respect yourself, everything else just falls into place.

If a person doesn't like me or doesn't like my game, OK, that's how they feel. Can't be upset with it.

Thank you to Australia for letting me know that I'm OK just the way that I am.

Everything that makes us who we are is A-O.K.

I have so much self-acceptance.

Be kind. Be nice to yourself. You miss a shot, it's OK.

Does self-acceptance ultimately require another person, or is there a kind of love that does not dabble in the dream of a perfect twinship?

It's not about trying to be perfect. It's not about trying to walk the straight and narrow. It's about loving who you are and finding those people who love and accept you for who you are.

I tried to surround myself with people who have accepted me for being me. And I want to create that image to my fans as well. And that's the advice I give to them. To be happy for who you are, and to surround yourself with people who are happy for being you.

We can be kind to others and kind to ourselves - and what anyone else decides to do is up to them. We can just be responsible to ourselves.

I believe people, especially women, have become more accepting of who they are.

I want the ladies to respect themselves.

I've learned to love my body and myself over time by being a little more accepting and having grace with myself.