Maya Hawke Quotes

Learning to love yourself is not going to happen overnight - the first step is trying to be kinder and more patient with yourself, and I understand that it takes time.

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

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.

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

I've always been someone who is pretty hard on herself. But I've lightened up a lot.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

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

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

The deepest gift you can learn in life is about self-love, and that's not going to happen overnight.

Somebody once told me that self-punishment is worse than any other punishment.

You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others.

I try to take the time to appreciate and I certainly do appreciate and I do feel proud but that is probably one of the things I need to work on, building a bit of time for myself.

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

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

I can live with myself.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

I have from time to time been a double A or triple A personality. I'm not anymore. I'm more lenient on myself.

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

I always feel like I'm so boring, but I don't get bored with me.

You learn to accept your own reality.

I kind of learned that I am way too tough of a critic on myself and that other people are not judging me as harshly as I judge myself, so I need to give myself a break.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.