Regina Spektor Quotes

We must look at ourselves over and over again in order to learn to love, to discover what has kept our hearts closed, and what it means to allow our hearts to open.

The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.

I have stepped off the relationship scene to come to terms with myself. I have spent most of my adult life being 'someone's girlfriend', and now I am happy being single.

Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing.

Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face one's own inner self.

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that makes you want to improve yourself.

It's OK to know what's best for yourself. That was my biggest issue. I was looking to other people to tell me what I needed. When I finally turned inwards and took responsibility for the way I was feeling, that's when everything started changing.

This is how it works You're young until you're not You love until you don't You try until you can't You laugh until you cry You cry until you laugh And everyone must breathe Until their dying breath No, this is how it works You peer inside yourself You take the things you like And try to love the things you took And then you take that love you made And stick it into some Someone else's heart Pumping someone else's blood And walking arm in arm You hope it don't get harmed But even if it does You'll just do it all again

What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.

A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up.

If we have goals and dreams and we want to do our best, and if we love people and we don’t want to hurt them or lose them, we should feel pain when things go wrong. The point isn’t to live without any regrets, the point is to not hate ourselves for having them… We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly — it reminds us that we know we can do better.

If you don't love yourself, I'll make you see your own heart.

To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others.

Raising a child, whether or not it is yours, is like Nautilus of the heart and soul.

It’s a wonderful thing when you look inside your own heart and like what you see.

Rushing around, hoping to find peace of mind anywhere other than within yourself, is like looking for your heart in someone else's body!

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

You know, you kind of lose some self-confidence after having kids because you'll never be the way you were. But I feel good.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

Everyone loses touch with their aspiration, and we need the heart to return to what we really care about. All of this is based on developing greater lovingkindness and compassion.

One must learn to love, and go through a good deal of suffering to get to it... and the journey is always towards the other soul.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard for me.

It's neat to have finally reached a point where I can accept what I was and what I am.