Gregory Gallant Quotes

The other day I went to a school in Harlem to talk to some 7th graders [12-year-olds] and I said, ‘If I have to give you some advice, the most important thing is: the sooner you become your own best friend, the better your life will be,’

My number one thing is be kind to yourself. We can't control what other people do, we can only control what we do.

There are things I still criticize myself heavy for. There are days I have to pick myself back up, but that, to me, is success; it's getting to both sides: physical and the spiritual, mental. Just peace. Peace of mind.

Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything

To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.

We are capable of creating miracles ourselves and the greatest miracle is to create a masterpiece of joy out of your life with no excuses. The thing I focus on is going straight to heart. I go to mine first because if I don't feel it, you're not going to feel it. I take a deep breath and remind myself that before I give it to you I have to give it to myself.

But respect yourself most of all.

Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.

Trust Me. Life is not worth living feeling sad and down and lonely. Always be true to who you are.

At the end of the day, the only thing I ever wanted to feel was loved. So I think if I could give someone a piece of advice, it's really learn how to be kind to yourself. In all of our ugliness and all of our brokenness and our bad choices, to really learn to nurture that part of yourself that can be your own big sister in a way.

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.

Letting yourself off the hook takes the stress away.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

You can't save the world...save YOUR heart. Be a catalyst & create a life where you are powerful. Rebel. Be happy & allow others happiness.

No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.

I have no control over what people think, and if I were to spend energy on that, I would be a lifeless, deadened human being.

My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.

Certainly, we all have within us the potential to live in a hugely different way. And how happy you can make yourself, I think, a lot depends on how much you beat yourself up about that; and how much you can, in some sort of providential way, console yourself and say, 'Well, it's all worked out for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.'

I remember reminding myself that beauty is an opinion, not a fact. And it has always made me feel better.

I have time to breathe, time to be myself more often, I am a lot more relaxed and less guarded.

I don't have the best self esteem; mine wavers month to month, but I know how to pick myself up.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.