Judith Durham Quotes

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

There is no way to reach your fullest potential if you don't really find the love of yourself.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

I'm not as hard on myself anymore. I'm comfortable exactly where I am, though it took me until I was 34 years old! I still have things I'm really insecure about, but I've changed by loving me - C-section scars, stretch marks, and all.

I've gradually grown more comfortable with who I am and what I am.

Don't look at someone else and want to be them. Search within yourself and find out who you are and be someone positive.

Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

The beautiful thing is I have sort of grown up. I don't care if I'm highbrow or not anymore.

Maybe I am a little bit guilty of trying to convince myself that I am cool to this point - even today. But I am so much more healthy than I used to be in my twenties, because I was not accepted at all.

I think I'm happy with who I am. I don't know if I learned that from other girls or just people in general.

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

I've realised I can be happy.

Every day is a reminder to accept myself as I am.

I've got to where I've always wanted to be. I just feel more myself, and I've learned not to care what other people think. It's happened slowly, very slowly. But I did it.

I was a milksop as a kid. I had no confidence, no guts. I felt I was going to be someone else someday - someone who didn't have my weaknesses.

I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. After a while, if you're not, it's like, what are you hoping for?

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.

See, it's not until you start accepting who you are that you can really find success, or more importantly, happiness.

I have worked hard to become happy. It was a real struggle.

You think you can go into all those auditions not knowing who you are? The work came after I found my sense of self - when I wasn't so manic and desperate.

It's one thing for other people to see potential in you, and it's quite another for you to understand that and see it in yourself.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

I love myself.

You can only begin to share life well when you think well of yourself.