“The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.” PeopleIfsLoveAbleAcceptingLove YouHealthyWho You AreFaultsLove YourselfPrerequisitesAccepting YourselfLoving Others Book:Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day Source: Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day
“If success is really dependent on someone liking you or not liking you, and you have to teeter on that kind of tightrope of how you're supposed to act and how you're supposed to look and who you are, it's just not a healthy way to live.” IfsWayLooksKindLike YouHealthyWho You AreDependentWay To Live Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“When I was growing up, we didn't have this super-skinny, flawless image to compete with. I find it unfortunate that young women may look at those images and think that is the ideal of beauty. It can cause a lot of problems and self-esteem issues if we don't remind girls that being healthy and exactly who you are is the main thing. I'm grateful I didn't grow up with those images.” IfsThinkingLooksMaySelfProblemYoungGirlGrowsCausesGrowing UpIssuesGrowingSelf EsteemHealthyIdealsGratefulWho You AreEsteemUnfortunateYoung WomenSkinnyFlawlessSelf Esteem Issues Author:Kellee Stewart
“Many things in your life matter, but only one thing matters absolutely.It matters whether you succeed or fail in the eyes of the world. It matters whether you are healthy or not healthy, whether you are educated or not educated. It matter whether you are rich or poor - it certainly makes a difference in your life. Yes, all these things matter, relatively speaking, but they don't matter absolutely.There is something that matters more than any of those things and that is finding the essence of who you are beyond that short-lived entity, that short-lived personalized sense of self.” WorldSelfMatterEyeDifferencesPoorRichFailingOne ThingHealthySucceedFindingsEssenceWho You AreEducatedMaking A DifferenceEntitySense Of SelfShort LivedRich Or PoorPersonalized Book:Stillness Speaks Source: Stillness Speaks
“When someone comments on my weight, I have to work hard to stand in front of the mirror and say, "This is who you are. You're okay in this lady, and you're a great, healthy, lovable and loving person." I try to accept myself.” TryingPersonsHardAcceptingFrontsHard WorkHealthyOkayWeightMirrorsWho You AreCommentLovableLoving Person Author:Rosie O'Donnell
“People discuss their relationships all the time, but you can't. I don't think people realize how harmful that is, how it twists you up to hide who you are. It's not healthy, and the great gains that homosexuals have made in my lifetime, I think that we'll look back in twenty or thirty years and say, "I can't believe we ever made them go through that."” PeopleThinkingYearsBelieveLooksMadeI CanRealizingHealthyGainsTwentiesWho You AreLifetimeThirtyHomosexualTwistsThirty Years Author:David Sedaris
“My wish and hope, every year, is that people's life chances - their chances of having a happy, prosperous, healthy life for themselves and their family and friends - should not depend on accident of birth. It shouldn't depend on where you're born. It should depend on who you are and what you do. But it shouldn't depend on the chance and the luck of being born in the U.S. or in a poor village in Sub-Saharan Africa or India or wherever it may be.” PeopleShouldYearsMayWishBornChancePoorDependsBirthHealthyIndiaLuckWho You AreAccidentsVillageFamily And FriendsProsperousHealthy LifeMy WishWishes And HopesSub Saharan Africa Author:Michael Elliott
“It's very hard to sustain love, that's for sure. But the more you have your own life and your own self, and the less you give away who you are, the more men are attracted to you. The more desperate you are for a relationship, the worse it is to find a healthy relationship. Because the minute you become one-and-a-half people instead of two, it's a mess. Nobody's happy. Keeping your identity and having your own life and your own self, that's the only way I can make my life and sustain life.” PeopleMenGivingIdentityHealthyWho You AreMessDesperate Author:Julie Delpy
“I'm fortunate to have a hilarious, fun, brilliant family that I love spending time with that keeps me in a healthy head space. The internet can be so enthralling in a bad way, in a toxic way, where you feel like your brain is submerged in this sewer and you can't climb out of it. The main thing is spending time with real physical people who remind you who you are. It can be so tempting to believe that you are who the internet says you are.” PeopleBelieveRealFunBrainLike YouInternetHealthyWho You AreBrilliantSpending Time Author:Lindy West