Angel Olsen Quotes

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

I've really come to realize you have to love yourself before you can expect someone else to.

If I can't really find a way to live with myself, I can't expect anyone else to live with me.

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

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

Here's the thing: you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self, but in a guy, you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

There's nothing more, nothing better in life to wake up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and feel comfortable with yourself and who you are.

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

Age has given me the gift of me; it just gave me what I was always longing for, which was to get to be the woman I've already dreamt of being. Which is somebody who can do rest and do hard work and be a really constant companion, a constant, tender-hearted wife to myself.

The older I get, the more I accept and appreciate myself.

You have to accept yourself so everyone else can.

You have to be able to appreciate who you are.

The deepest gift you can learn in life is about self-love, and that's not going to happen overnight.

You are neither better nor worse than anyone else. I learned at a young age how to maintain this balance.

Only if you love yourself, only if you're happy with yourself and only if you know your own worth will you ever be happy.

I think the best relationship you'll ever have is the one with yourself. That might even be the most important one.

I wish I could have gone back and told myself what I know now: Accepting yourself is the way to go.

As you get older, it's always a process of self-love, learning how to really do that for yourself instead of trying to find it outside yourself.

It was my father who taught me to value myself.