Marti Noxon Quotes

I'm done with trying to be perfect. A perfect body belongs to somebody else - and it's not me.

I think there's so much feeling among young girls where they feel like they have to be this perfect thing - and they don't. Perfect people don't exist. Sometimes people need to be told it.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

I think that's the most beautiful thing about being confident - just loving yourself, not caring what everybody else thinks. Because you could be Mother Theresa, and people are still going to try to find some imperfection.

There's no such thing as being perfect, and that doesn't just mean the perfect body.

I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.

Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-brake on.

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.

I just think women should love themselves more than they do. Because I think - with all the social media stuff - we look at ourselves too much, and we just destroy ourselves when we're way cooler than we know.

It's too distracting to read about yourself. You want to be perfect and you want everyone to love you, and that's never going to happen.

I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

I told my mom, 'I'm not buying another magazine until I can get past this thought of looking like the girl on the cover'. She said, "Miley, you are the girl on the cover,' and I was, like, 'I know, but I don't feel like that girl every day.' You can't always feel perfect.

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.

My mama told me in college, 'I love you, and you're God's child, but natural beauty will only take you so far.'

Self-esteem, the kind that comes from finding the sweet spot between a healthy fondness for yourself and healthy self-skepticism, tends to get harder to come by the older we get.

Nobody is more worthy of love in the entire universe than you. I wish I had reminded myself of that more.

All I can do is be my best - there will always be people who will never like me.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

Much protective self-criticism stems from growing up around people who wouldn't or couldn't love you, and it's likely they still can't or won't. In general, however, the more you let go of the tedious delusion of your own unattractiveness, the easier it will be for others to connect with you, and the more accepted you'll feel.

I can't build myself by beating somebody down.

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

Oh God, I don't know if I ever really felt beautiful. I don't, really.

Don't waste even a minute magnifying your perceived inadequacies. You can't do it all. Why berate yourself for not achieving the impossible?