Lauren Tom Quotes

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind.

I don't need to be better than anybody or worse than anybody to feel better about myself. I just need to stick on my own path and stay in the moment as best I can.

A lot of people come to L.A. looking for something. What I came here for, I realize now, is to be okay with myself.

I actually feel that the better you know yourself, the more you want to hang out with yourself and enjoy that time to do whatever makes you happy.

I'm learning to accept myself. I'm still in the process of learning to love who I am. And it's been really refreshing and really nice to be able to do that and be okay. I think my fans have brought that out in me.

I'm getting older and I'm just coming to terms that I'm stuck with me so I better try to like myself.

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.

Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

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

If you want to understand yourself, Then do not examine yourself. Just love yourself more sincerely, More soulfully And more self-givingly.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

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

Devotion begins at home, inside your own awareness.

You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

I can live with myself.

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.

It only seems that there is something more important for you to do than to just quietly be yourself.

Your life is meant for you to understand and process, not to make anyone else happy.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.

I don't think we have a right to enjoy our neuroses; in fact, I believe that we have a duty not to. But we cannot walk away from ourselves. Who else is there to become?

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.