John Ciardi Quotes

I always told, Sandra Bullock was my student when she was younger, I always told her it's important that we hold on to our insecurity, the wisdom of insecurity.

I do know my own mind,' protested Anne. 'The trouble is, my mind changes and then I have to get acquainted with it all over again.

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

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

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

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.

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.

Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

A wonderful thing happens over time. You fall in love with the sound of your own voice.

Regardless of who your parents are, where you come from, or what you look like, you can embrace your flaws and be honest with yourself.

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

I don't get along much with myself.

There was a time where I was really confused about who I was and what I was doing, and I was just kind of depressed.

It's really hard to foster self-love; it really is. I think a lot of people who claim that they do have a definite lack of self-loathing are either lying or just in a place that I don't relate to.

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.

Am I completely indifferent to criticism? No, not at all. But I know who I am and I have learned to respect and care for who I am.

The best advice Drake's given anybody is to know yourself. It's the most important thing to live by.

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

My confidence comes from the realisation that, actually, the best you can be is you, learning to accept who I was, what I wanted, and that I was more than my body.

I think we all go through those moments of self-doubt.

One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.