“All of a sudden it hit me, I realized what the problem is: I can't be with someone like me. I hate myself! If anything, I need to get the exact opposite of me. It's too much. It's too much, I can't take it. I can't take it….”— Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld, imdb.com
“I have to stop blaming myself. I have to stop believing that I'm the hard one to love.”— V (writersuniverse), instagram.com
“How am I supposed to like myself if all these shitty things keep happening because I do them???”— Allie Brosh, amazon.com
“I'm afraid that if I started to ponder who I am and what I am, I might not like what I find.”— Rod Serling, books.google.com
“The mind thinks thoughts that we don't plan. It's not as if we say, 'At 9:10 I'm going to be filled with self-hatred.'”— Sharon Salzberg, amazon.com
“The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com
“Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”— Louise L. Hay, amazon.com
“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”— Laurell K. Hamilton, amazon.com
“To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.”— Victoria Moran, amazon.com
“I am still bullied occasionally. However, none of my current bullies really exist. They’re all in my head. Be your own best friend instead of your worst enemy.”— Abiola Abrams, amazon.com
“No one starts as a self-hater. But rack up all of your mistakes and take a large enough number of wrong turns in life and soon you stop trying to forgive yourself. Everywhere you look you find shame or failure staring back.”— André Aciman, amazon.com
“Whenever insecurity whispers in your ear, telling you how much you suck, tell it to shut the hell up. Then keep going forward anyway.”— Rebecca O'Donnell, amazon.com
“It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“Try giving up all the thoughts that make you feel bad, or even just some of them, and see how doing that changes your life. You don't need negative thoughts. All they have ever given you was a false self that suffers. They are all lies.”— Gina Lake, amazon.com
“This negative self-talk is something you probably aren't even aware of, but it eats away at you bit by bit and erodes that self-confidence you need to tackle your anxiety.”— Robert Duff, amazon.com
“I write because there is nothing as joyful as writing, even when the writing is twisted and full of hate, the self-hate that makes writing not only possible but necessary. I hate myself, I hate the people around me, but what I crave is the fulfillment of some ideal.”— Gary Shteyngart, amazon.com