"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection"
- Sharon Salzberg
"You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as..."
"Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be."
- Heath L. Buckmaster
"It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always."
- Henry David Thoreau
"You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company."
- Diane Von Furstenberg
"Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back."
- Jennifer Elisabeth
"I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love."
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are."
- Marilyn Monroe
"Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are"
- Kurt Cobain
"Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
- Eleanor Roosevelt