Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

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.

In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.

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

Being able to love who I was, while also understanding that I deserved to be treated with kindness, helped me create a more positive and happy environment for myself.

As I grew, I learned to love myself more every day and not pay attention to the negative people, which helped a lot.

Once I got done with my career, I knew in my soul that I don't have any negative thoughts about myself.

The more we learn to love and respect ourselves, the more we will become attracted to people who will love and respect us and who we can safely love and respect.

Only be with somebody if they make you feel like the best version of yourself. You can't sacrifice yourself for anybody, you know?

If you can't love me the right way, then don't love me at all. Don't be mad at me because I prefer to be happy.

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.

A disciplined mind brings happiness.

Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

When I meditate in the morning, it really changes my day and my relationship with my day.

You can love other people only to the degree that you've come to love and accept yourself

Peace must first be developed within an individual. And I believe that love, compassion, and altruism are the fundamental basis for peace. Once these qualities are developed within an individual, he or she is then able to create an atmosphere of peace and harmony. This atmosphere can be expanded and extended from the individual to his family, from the family to the community and eventually to the whole world.

The better you learn to take care of yourself, the less you settle for being around people who can't or won't treat you as well as you're accustomed.

If you don't embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy life.

I have an everyday religion that works for me. Love yourself first, and everything else falls into line.

I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.

I'm finally just relaxed and comfortable with who I am.

I know who I am and I've always been comfortable in my own skin.

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

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

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.