How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People) Quotes

“We don’t become worthy of love someday; we are worthy of love simply because we exist.”
― Meggan Watterson, How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People): Spiritual Advice for Modern Relationships

“True love is the natural energy of our settled mind.”
― Meggan Watterson, How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People): Spiritual Advice for Modern Relationships

“No one ever loses anyone.” We all just keep meeting those unique souls who can instigate growth in our lives and evolve the soul.”
― Meggan Watterson, How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People): Spiritual Advice for Modern Relationships

“True love is when I see all those judgments and barriers that have kept my heart barricaded for what they really are—opportunities for my love to reach where it never has before. Every broken and closed off aspect of us is just another chance to exercise our capacity to love.”
― Meggan Watterson, How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People): Spiritual Advice for Modern Relationships

“I’m so sorry I hurt you. I love you and never want to do that.”
― Meggan Watterson, How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People): Spiritual Advice for Modern Relationships

“Basic goodness is the experience that you are primordially whole. That is who you are.”
― Meggan Watterson, How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People): Spiritual Advice for Modern Relationships

“Gom can also be translated as “familiarity.” It is the notion that through the simple practice of being with the breath and watching your thoughts float across the landscape of your mind you are becoming more familiar with them.”
― Meggan Watterson, How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People): Spiritual Advice for Modern Relationships

“We are told we need to be different than who we actually are in this moment in order to free ourselves from this feeling of suffering. That is not the case.”
― Meggan Watterson, How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People): Spiritual Advice for Modern Relationships

“Love isn’t “deserved,” as in If only I would have said the right thing, made the perfect gesture, or found a way to be more, to be good enough, then I would deserve love. But love isn’t like that.”
― Meggan Watterson, How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People): Spiritual Advice for Modern Relationships

“On a certain level there’s actually no difference between self-love and love of another. To love another is to love ourselves.”
― Meggan Watterson, How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People): Spiritual Advice for Modern Relationships

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. —Helen Schucman, A Course in Miracles”
― Meggan Watterson, How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People): Spiritual Advice for Modern Relationships

“people don’t often see themselves as kind, wise, and desirable. Instead, many people think they are garbage.”
― Meggan Watterson, How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People): Spiritual Advice for Modern Relationships

“There was so much that was “right” about my friend’s Mr. Right. He was my age, also an indie parent to a young son. He was smart, funny, and handsome. We both valued family above all else. He really in many ways was everything I thought I was looking for in a partner. The only thing that was missing was that magic, the sense that we had been brought together by a force greater than ourselves. Within three months, we knew that what we had was good, but it wasn’t what either of us really desired.”
― Meggan Watterson, How to Love Yourself (and Sometimes Other People): Spiritual Advice for Modern Relationships