Hanif Kureishi Quotes

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

I stopped beating up on myself. I stopped asking myself why I didn't sell this number of records, why I don't have corporate sponsorship. I just don't buy into any of that anymore.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.

Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. Let go of standards of perfection and refuse to use up the precious currency of your life, the now, with thoughts that continue to frustrate and weaken you. Instead, vow to be better than you used to be, which is the true test of nobility.

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

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.'

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

I don't have to try to be perfect at everything.

I gave up shame a long time ago.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

Neither blame or praise yourself.

To progress in life you must give up the things you do not like. Give up doing the things that you do not like to do. You must find the things that you do like. The things that are acceptable to your mind.

It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.

I've become bored of being insecure, ashamed, scared... no one should feel like that about themselves, especially when there is so much good life to live.

Forgiveness for one's self is the only way we can keep going through life and give ourselves the best chance at being the best people we can be.

Forgiving yourself will help with giving yourself strength.

I have a lot of self-hatred and a lot of self-anger and a lot of things that I need to let go of.

I'm learning to let go of the idea of trying to be perfect.

The biggest lesson I’ve learned is, “It’s okay.” It’s okay for me to be kind to myself. It’s okay to be wrong. It’s okay to get mad. It’s ok to be flawed. It’s okay to be happy. It’s okay to move on.

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

Make peace with your past - so it won't spoil the present!