Petra Collins Quotes

I like myself a lot more than I used to. I had a very difficult time in my twenties especially. It was hard for me to look in the mirror and find something that I liked about myself.

I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.

Well. I'm probably not loving myself like I should, but I'm really trying.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

I can live with myself.

I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.

I'm still learning to love myself.

I know my family loves me, but the hardest part is to love myself.

I feel like I ask my fans to love themselves a lot, and and I do want people to love themselves. That comes from personal experience.

I'm learning to accept myself. I'm still in the process of learning to love who I am. And it's been really refreshing and really nice to be able to do that and be okay. I think my fans have brought that out in me.

Self-love is not something that you get in one day or two days. It's an ongoing process, and I go through it every day.

Work hard on yourself; don't be hard on yourself.

Everyday, we all struggle to be comfortable with our imperfections.

If you want to love others, I think you should love yourself first.

If, through my own personal journey, I can inspire someone else to self-love, that would be the biggest accomplishment.

The most important relationship we have in our lives is the relationship we have with ourselves, and we're not taught about it.

Focusing on the way I look makes me uncomfortable. I try to focus on the way I feel - I know what makes me feel better about myself. Reading my child a story makes me feel great, doing my hair nicely doesn't.

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.

It's really important to talk to yourself and look at yourself in the mirror and love who you are.

I love myself.

I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.

It's a constant battle for everybody, but you need to be happy with yourself.

Depression is a surfeit of empathy - a killing empathy - that makes depressives great friends to everyone but themselves. Having a self is a rough business, and depressives can empathize with others who have to deal with it, but not with themselves.