Louise Hay Quotes

People who readily accept the need for a gym will resist that their personalities might need some work too.

Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a man who looks at himself is so ashamed that he tries to make some sort of change - within himself, not on the outside.

Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.

You've just got to give yourself time - that's good advice I think. Give yourself time to figure out what you're good at and what you're not good at.

It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.

There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we need to change. But at the same time, we do not need to be too desperate, too ruthless, too combative. Along the way to usefulness and happiness, many of those things will change themselves, and the others can be worked on as we go. The first thing we need to do is recognize and trust our own Inner Nature, and not lose sight of it.

Acknowledgemen t of what you feel, what you know, what you need is the first step toward healing.

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

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

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

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

What one discovers in life, I find, is that one's personality defects don't come and go.

Before you can do something you must first be something.

I think a lot of people want people who actually have qualities they don't find attractive as a way of being able to change them. It's fascinating, because people think if they can change the other person, they can change themselves. It's a complex phenomenon. It's a fantasy that's actually about being able to come to terms with ourselves.

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.

You may not seem able to change some outer circumstances but you can start by changing your inner experience of life and yourself.

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

Sometimes you're only human and you learn.

I'm like a recovering perfectionist. For me it's one day at a time.

I'm trying figuring out how to be the best person I can be. But it's been a process of trial and error.

I have learnt to be even more patient.

Buddhism has turned me on to my humanness, and is challenging my humanness so that I can become more human.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.