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“He wanted desperately to be an actor. The pursuit of fame and fortune far outweighed his ability to experience joy. He thought he could be acceptable and worthwhile only if he had fame. I taught him to love and accept himself, and he got well. He is now grown up and appears on Broadway with regularity. As he learned to experience the joy of being himself, the parts in plays opened up for him.”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

“I can feel love for:
The very process of life itself. The joy of being alive. The beauty I see. Another person. Knowledge. The process of the mind. Our bodies and the way they work. Animals, birds, fish. Vegetation in all its forms. The Universe and the way it works.”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

“We scold and criticize ourselves endlessly. We mistreat our bodies with food, alcohol, and drugs. We choose to believe we are unlovable. We are afraid to charge a decent price for our services. We create illnesses and pain in our bodies. We procrastinate about things that would benefit us. We live in chaos and disorder. We create debt and burdens. We attract lovers and mates who belittle us or abuse us.”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

“So I refuse to focus on excess weight or on diets. For diets do not work. The only diet that does work is a mental diet — dieting from negative thoughts. I say to clients, “Let us just put that issue to one side for the time being while we work on a few other things first.”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

“I explain that they are fat because they don’t love themselves. When we begin to love and approve of ourselves, it’s amazing how weight just disappears from our bodies.”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

“We are doing the best we can with the understanding, awareness, and knowledge we have.”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

“Each one of us has a three-year-old child within us, and we often spend most of our time yelling at that kid in ourselves. Then we wonder why our lives don’t work.”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

“It would be very easy just to blame our parents and be victims for the rest of our lives. But that wouldn’t be much fun, and it certainly wouldn’t get us out of our stuck position.”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

“Blame is one of the surest ways to stay in a problem. In blaming another, we give away our power. Understanding enables us to rise above the issue and take control of our future. The past cannot be changed. The future is shaped by our current thinking.”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

“You can’t free yourself until you free them. You can’t forgive yourself until you forgive them. If you demand perfection from them, you will demand perfection from yourself, and you will be miserable all your life.”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

“The past has no power over me because I am willing to learn and to change. I see the past as necessary to bring me to where I am today. I am willing to begin where I am right now to clean the rooms of my mental house. I know it does not matter where I start, so I now begin with the smallest and the easiest rooms, and in that way I will see results quickly.”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

“think prosperous thoughts. If we want a loving life, we must think loving thoughts. Whatever we send out mentally or verbally will come back to us in like form.”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

“Impatience is only another form of resistance. It is resistance to learning and to changing. When we demand that it be done right now, completed at once, then we don’t give ourselves time to learn the lesson involved with the problem we have created.”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

“If you think of the hardest thing for you to do and how much you resist it, then you’re looking at your greatest lesson at the moment. Surrendering, giving up the resistance, and allowing yourself to learn what you need to learn will make the next step even easier. Don’t let your resistance stop you from making the changes. We can work on two levels: 1) Looking at the resistance, and 2) Still making the mental changes. Observe yourself, watch how you resist, and then go ahead anyway.”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

“She wanted to do this, too, but was afraid. I supported her totally and explained, “There is nobody like you. Just be yourself.” I said, “Do it for the fun of it. There are people out there looking for exactly what you have to offer. Let them know you exist.”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

“YOUR MIND IS A TOOL YOU CAN CHOOSE TO USE ANY WAY YOU WISH.”
― Louise L. Hay, You Can Heal Your Life

“Don’t let the lessons, the experiences of the past, dampen your enthusiasm for beginnings. Just because it’s been hard doesn’t mean it will always be that difficult. Don’t let the heartbreaks of the past cause you to become cynical, close you off to life’s magic and promise. Open yourself wide to all that the universe has to say.”
― Melody Beattie, Journey to the Heart: Daily Reflections for Spiritual Growth, Embracing Creativity, and Discovering Your True Purpose

“Even if you have no money or time or the weather is bad, you can still live an exciting life if you try.”
― Abby Jimenez, Life's Too Short

“I also believe that we contribute toward the creation of every condition in our lives, good or bad, with our thinking, feeling patterns. The thoughts we think create our feelings, and we then begin to live our lives in accordance with these feelings and beliefs.”
― Louise L. Hay, The Power Is Within You

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― Louise L. Hay, The Power Is Within You

“As I forgave myself, I began to trust myself. I found that when we don’t trust life or other people, it’s really because we don’t trust ourselves. We don’t trust our Higher Selves to take care of us in all situations, so we say, “I’ll never fall in love again because I don’t want to get hurt,” or “I’ll never let this happen again.” What we are really saying to ourselves is, “I don’t trust you enough to take good care of me, so I’m going to stay away from everything.”
― Louise L. Hay, The Power Is Within You

“there are millions going through an equivalent experience at any one time.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Maybe we should be looking at how we live, and how our minds weren’t made for the lives we lead.”
― Matt Haig, Reasons to Stay Alive

“Every time you restrain yourself from descending into an excuse and instead view yourself as the creator of your life, you’ll receive a corresponding increase in strength.”
― Robin S. Sharma, The Everyday Hero Manifesto: Activate Your Positivity, Maximize Your Productivity, Serve The World

“Rather than taking from the world, make it your consistent enthusiasm to give to the world. And to behave in a way that serves all citizens.”
― Robin S. Sharma, The Everyday Hero Manifesto: Activate Your Positivity, Maximize Your Productivity, Serve The World