Louise Hay

I never believe it when clients try to convince me how terrible they are, or how unlovable they are. My work is to bring them back to the time when they knew how to really love themselves.

I expect my life to be good and joyous, and it is.

I cross bridges with joy and ease.

The only diet that does work is a mental diet—dieting from negative thoughts.

Almost all our programming, both negative and positive, was accepted by us by the time we were three years old.

I believe life is really very simple. What we give out, we get back.

Loving ourselves begins with never, ever criticizing ourselves about anything.

Everything I need to know is revealed to me. Everything I need comes to me. All is well in my life.

The most powerful way to do affirmations is to look in the mirror and say them out loud.

Your mind is a tool you can choose to use any way you wish. The thoughts you ‘choose’ to think create the experiences you have.

By far the biggest category of resistance is fear--fear of the unknown.

Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.

You’re security is not your job, or your bank account, or your investments, or your spouse or parents. Your security is your ability to connect with the cosmic power that creates all things.

Loving the self, to me, begins with never criticizing ourselves for anything. Criticism locks us into the very pattern we are trying to change. Understanding and being gentle with ourselves helps us to move out of it. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

If you don’t have the thought, you won’t have the feeling. And thoughts can be changed. Change the thought, and the feeling must go.

Be kind to yourself. Begin to love and approve of yourself. That’s what the little child needs in order to express itself as its highest potential.

Impatience is just 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.

The words we speak are indicative of our inner thoughts.