Don Miguel Ruiz Quotes

The time will come when you will hate the sight of a mirror.

If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.

If you can't stand yourself, neither can anybody else!

I don't like myself. I'm not vain at all. I hate looking at myself - I always think I look ugly. Honest.

Nothing else loves me, or ever will. Not even - especially - me. I know what I am and that is not a thing to love.

I don't hate myself, as a general rule. I'd say the best way to describe it is that I have moments of self-loathing at fairly regular intervals.

I was self-conscious of being so lanky, of being me. I'd keep my head down, make excuses not to go out. I'd look in the mirror and hate myself. I thought I was disgusting. I cried constantly from 11 to 16. If I could tell my younger self anything, it would be to learn to love your flaws. It's OK to look in the mirror and feel really confident about yourself.

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

Seems like the only one who doesn't see your beauty is the face in the mirror looking back at you.

I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don't like myself.

I'm hatin' my reflection, I walk around the house tryin' to fight mirrors, I can't stand what I look like

There are many ways that we hurt ourselves when we don't like who we are.

It's impossible to consistently behave in a manner inconsistent with how we see ourselves. We can do very few things in a positive way if we feel negative about ourselves.

So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It’s a tough job being a portrait photographer.

It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.

Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.

You would love the way he sees you. He uses you as a weapon against himself and not merely because you did

That's the biggest thing to separate - your body from your self worth.

Somethings wrong with us for us to value ourselves so little.

Many people identify their sense of self with the problems they have, or think they have.

I find it painful and angering to look in a mirror.

I have this theory- that if we're told we're bad, then that's the only ideal we'll ever have.

My feelings about myself have been terrible.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

I feel like I have a healthy self-esteem.