Virginia Satir Quotes

When you look at yourself and feel dissatisfaction about any part of you, you will continue to attract feelings of dissatisfaction, because the law mirrors back to you exactly what you are holding inside. Be in awe and wonder at the magnificence of you!

I started to like my voice - the sound of it. So then I started to listen to it as something separate. To me, it sounded good that way as well.

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

You have been taught that there is something wrong with you and that you are imperfect, but there isn't and you're not.

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

Low self-confidence is simply a problem of Awareness. Once you are aware of the Truth about yourself, you will be able to understand why you are the way you are and, most importantly, learn to love and accept yourself.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

I try to remind myself of the things that I like about myself that make me who I am.

At the end of the day, you won't be happy until you love yourself.

Most people settle because they don't like themselves enough.

Accept yourself. Love yourself just as you are. Your finest work, your best moments, your joy, peace, and healing come when you love yourself. You give a great gift to the world when you do that. You give others permission to do the same: to love themselves. Revel in self love. Roll in it. Bask in it, as you would the sunshine.

Love yourself for who you are and just keep going.

To grow in our ability to love ourselves we need to receive love as well.

What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give to others.

There are always going to be things you don’t like about yourself or reasons to compare yourself to others, but once you realize that you only get one you, it’s best to just love yourself.

Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness.

A man who loves himself takes the first step towards real love.

Imagine what else is true if you understood there is nothing fundamentally wrong with you.

The more you like yourself, the better you do at everything you put your mind to.

It takes a while to really love yourself...

Friendship with oneself is all important.

It really is the relationship you have with your self that presents the key to the “kingdom”, so to speak... Fighting is good, but not when it is fighting yourself. Changing the world is good but first one has to start inside and concurrently make that place right. The strife and the ugliness in the world is the outward manifestation of this troubled relationship we have within on a whole.

If you truly want to become a better you, it is imperative that you learn to feel good about yourself.

When you do your best you learn to accept yourself

Love who and what you are and what you do.