Shirley MacLaine Quotes

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

I don't believe I've ever truly been in love because I don't believe that I've known myself well enough in the past to allow someone to love me.

I don't think anyone really knows me.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

It took me several years to figure out who I am and a few more to accept what I discovered. Now, I'm in the enjoyment stage of that process and it's a happy place.

I discovered myself!

A lot of what I've been learning in the last two years is due to therapy - about my sexuality, why things go wrong, why relationships haven't worked. It isn't anything to do with anybody else; it's to do with me.

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be proud of who you are. Now that I'm trying to peel off those layers and really understand who I am, I don't have anything to be shy about.

I identify with my womanhood before anything else because that's what I deal with when I am alone.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

'Aura' is a song where you're looking at yourself in the mirror, and I was personally impacted when I recorded it. I identified with it.

A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.

Even when I'm older, I might be in a different head space, but I want to be able to go back to 'True 2 Myself' and remember this season. It's really for me.

It took living alone for me to really get to know myself.

I hit a brick wall one day, and I spent a lot of time by myself learning about me and who I am and what I want and don't want.

My primary relationship is with myself- all others are mirrors of it. As I learn to love myself, I automatically receive the love and appreciation that I desire from others. If I am commited to myself and to living my truth, I will attract others with equal commitment. My willingness to be intimate with my own deep feelings creates the space for intimacy with another.

One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.

First, all relationships are with yourself-and sometimes they involve other people. Second, the most important relationship in your life-the one you have, like it or not, until the day you die-is with yourself.

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.

Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves.

You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with.

To understand oneself is the classic form of consolation; to elude oneself is the romantic.