Thich Nhat Hanh Quotes

Be kind to yourself so you can be happy enough to be kind to the world.

Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.

It's the love you have for yourself that's most important.

I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.

If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.

They say you'll be blooming when you're in love; I agree, but what is important to bloom is taking care of yourself, too.

Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

At the end of the day, the only thing I ever wanted to feel was loved. So I think if I could give someone a piece of advice, it's really learn how to be kind to yourself. In all of our ugliness and all of our brokenness and our bad choices, to really learn to nurture that part of yourself that can be your own big sister in a way.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

Your private relationship with yourself is a spring that will feed every other factor.

The most satisfied and enlightened people realize that successful and dynamic living starts from within. Before you can care for others, you must care for yourself.

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.

I think it's safe to say that each of us has at least one issue we are passionate about and struggle with, issues that robs us of our peace, our joy and our ability to experience love.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

We all have our down days, but it's not hard to smile and say, 'Thank you.'

I love myself and I am a good person.

Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.

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

I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

My best friend is me, and I take good care of me.

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

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

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