Louise Hay was an American motivational author and one of the founder of the Hay House.
Her book, Heal Your Body, published in 1976 is considered one of the best books on the mind body connection. She later went on to publish the New York Times best-seller, You Can Heal Your Life.
Louise Hay experienced some terrible experiences in her life. She was raped at the age of 5, at 15 she got pregnant and gave up her newborn baby for adoption and at 50 she was diagnosed with cervical cancer.
While many people may have given up hope after diagnosis, what’s inspiring about Louise Hay is that she chose to take complete responsibility for everything in her life and came to the conclusion that her body was reacting to hatred and resentment to all the things that had happened to her. At that point she began treating herself with nutrition, reflexology and most importantly a regimen of self-love and forgiveness to heal her body, which she did successfully.
Through her books, audio and video training, Louise Hay had inspired thousands of people to heal their lives by changing their thoughts and loving themselves.
Below are 99 of the most inspirational Louise Hay quotes on self-love, affirmations and positive thinking that will change your life.
99 Louise Hay Quotes
1. “Every thought we think is creating our future.” – Louise Hay
2. “You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we’re not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power.” – Louise Hay
3. “Look at the problems in your life. Ask yourself, ‘What kind of thoughts am I having that create this?” – Louise Hay
4. “You’ve been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise Hay
5. “No person, place, or thing has any power over me, for I am the only thinker in my mind. I create my own reality and everyone in it.” – Louise Hay
6. “Love is never outside ourselves; love is within us.” – Louise Hay
7. “You are the only person who thinks in your mind! You are the power and authority in your world.” – Louise Hay
8. “Be willing to take the first step, no matter how small it is. Concentrate on the fact that you are willing to learn. Absolute miracles will happen.” – Louise Hay
9. “No person, no place, and no thing has any power over us, for ‘we’ are the only thinkers in our mind. When we create peace and harmony and balance in our minds, we will find it in our lives.” – Louise Hay
10. “You should breathe deeply and chant, ‘Money will easily and effortlessly flow into my life’ as often as you can every day. Things will start to change after a month. If you believe you will be financially secure, then you are opening yourself up to change.” – Louise Hay
11. “Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.” – Louise Hay
12. “If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.” – Louise Hay
13. “Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today.” – Louise Hay
14. “If I want to believe that life is lonely and that nobody loves me, then that is what I will find in my world.” – Louise Hay
15. “It seems to me that everyone on this planet whom I know or have worked with is suffering from self-hatred and guilt to one degree or another. The more self-hatred and guilt we have, the less our lives work. The less self-hatred and guilt we have, the better our lives work, on all levels.” – Louise Hay
16. “We learn our belief systems as very little children, and then we move through life creating experiences to match our beliefs. Look back in your own life and notice how often you have gone through the same experience.” – Louise Hay
17. “I believe we create our own lives. And we create it by our thinking, feeling patterns in our belief system. I think we’re all born with this huge canvas in front of us and the paintbrushes and the paint, and we choose what to put on this canvas.” – Louise Hay
18. “If your mother did not know how to love herself, or your father did not know how to love himself, then it would be impossible for them to teach you to love yourself. They were doing the best they could with what they had been taught as children.” – Louise Hay
19. “Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.” – Louise Hay
20. “The point of power is always in the present moment.” – Louise Hay
21. “We are each responsible for all of our experiences.” – Louise Hay
22. “All the events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by your thoughts and beliefs you have held in the past. They were created by the thoughts and words you used yesterday, last week, last month, last year, 10, 20, 30, 40, or more years ago, depending on how old you are.” – Louise Hay
23. “I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.” – Louise Hay
24. “I have noticed that the Universe loves gratitude. The more grateful you are, the more goodies you get.” – Louise Hay
25. “I do not fix problems. I fix my thinking. Then problems fix themselves.” – Louise Hay
26. “Love who and what you are and what you do. Laugh at yourself and at life, and nothing can touch you.” – Louise Hay
27. “Would you really dig into yesterday’s garbage to make tonight’s meal? Do you dig into old mental garbage to create tomorrow’s experiences? If a thought or belief does not serve you, let it go!” – Louise Hay
28. “Life is a lottery that we’ve already won. But most people have not cashed in their tickets.” – Louise Hay
29. “How you start your day is how you live your day. How you live your day is how you live your life.” – Louise Hay
30. “If we can use our problems and illnesses as opportunities to think about how we can change our lives, we have power.” – Louise Hay
31. “”You are wonderful.” “I love you.” How often do you tell yourself this?” – Louise Hay
32. “The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.” – Louise Hay
33. “The past has no power over us. It doesn’t matter how long we have had a negative pattern. The point of power is in the present moment. What a wonderful thing to realize! We can begin to be free in this moment!” – Louise Hay
34. “Every experience is a success.” – Louise Hay
35. “No matter what the problem is, our experiences are just outer effects of inner thoughts.” – Louise Hay
36. “Love is always the answer to healing of any sort.” – Louise Hay
37. “Your mind is a tool you can choose to use any way you wish.” – Louise Hay
38. “Be kind to yourself. Begin to love and approve of yourself.” – Louise Hay
39. “You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind.” – Louise Hay
40. “You are the power in your world! You get to have whatever you choose to think!” – Louise Hay
41. “Life doesn’t judge us, but we judge ourselves. Life doesn’t criticize us, but we criticize ourselves. Life doesn’t abandon us, but we often abandon ourselves.” – Louise Hay
42. “Every thought you think and every word you speak is an affirmation. All of your self-talk, your internal dialogue, is a stream of affirmations. You’re using affirmations every moment whether you know it or not. You’re affirming and creating your life experiences with every word and thought.” – Louise Hay
43. “No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances.” – Louise Hay
44. “If you experience a health challenge, Life is inviting you to love yourself. In other words, no matter what your problem is, there is only one answer: loving yourself.” – Louise Hay
45. “Criticism breaks down the inner spirit. Praise builds it up. Praise yourself as much as you can. Tell yourself how well you are doing with every little thing.” – Louise Hay
46. “The more grateful you are, the more you get to be grateful about. It’s that simple.” – Louise Hay
47. “What you choose to think about yourself and about life becomes true for you.” – Louise Hay
48. “Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives. Loving the self, to me, begins with never ever 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. – Louise Hay
49. “If we want a joyous life, we must think joyous thoughts. If we want a prosperous life, we must 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 Hay
50. “Every day declare for yourself what you want in life. Declare it as though you have it!” – Louise Hay
51. “A tragedy can turn out to be our greatest good if we approach it in ways from which we can grow.” – Louise Hay
52. “Be as understanding with your parents as you want them to be with you.” – Louise Hay
53. “All the theories in the world are useless unless there is action, positive change, and finally, healing.” – Louise Hay
54. “Forgiving someone does not mean you condone their behavior. The act of forgiveness takes place in your own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person. The reality of true forgiveness lies in setting ourselves free from holding on to the pain. It is simply an act of releasing yourself from the negative energy.” – Louise Hay
55. “It’s okay to learn from every experience, and it’s okay to make mistakes.” – Louise Hay
56. “Until you love yourself, you will never know who you really are and you won’t know what you’re really capable of.” – Louise Hay
57. “Life is really very simple. What we give out, we get back.” – Louise Hay
58. “If I wait until I become perfect before I love myself, I will waste my whole life. I am already perfect right here and right now. I am perfect exactly as I am.” – Louise Hay
59. “That person who is the hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons. When you love yourself enough to rise above the old situation, then understanding and forgiveness will be easy. And you’ll be free.” – Louise Hay
60. “Some of the things you believe were never true. They were someone else’s fears. Give yourself a chance to examine your thoughts. Change those that are negative. You are deserving.” – Louise Hay
61. “Stop giving your precious energy to things that make you feel bad.” – Louise Hay
62. “There’s no such thing as good weather, or bad weather. There’s just weather and your attitude towards it.” – Louise Hay
63. “Filling my mind with pleasant thoughts is the quickest road to health.” – Louise Hay
64. “Don’t run from lessons; they are little packages of treasure that have been given to us. As we learn from them, our lives change for the better.” – Louise Hay
65. “Ask for what you want. Believe that you deserve it, and then allow Life to give it to you.” – Louise Hay
66. “Be committed to the relationship you have with yourself. We get so committed to other relationships, but often sort of toss ourselves away. We get around to ourselves only now and then. So, really care for who you are. Be committed to loving yourself. Take care of your heart and soul.” – Louise Hay
67. “You are not making the change because you are a bad person and you are doing it wrong. You make changes because you love yourself and you want to improve the quality of your life.” – Louise Hay
68. “Love of self and love of life connects us with the prosperity of the Universe. Self-love creates self-expression and allows us to be creative in deeply fulfilling ways.” – Louise Hay
69. “The body, like everything else in life, is a mirror of our inner thoughts and beliefs. Every cell within your body responds to every single thought you think and every word you speak.” – Louise Hay
70. “All of us can improve the quality of our lives if we practice the art of self-care and train our minds to think thoughts that make us feel good.” – Louise Hay
71. “The only thing that keeps you from deserving, or loving yourself, or whatever, is someone else’s belief or opinion that you have accepted as truth.” – Louise Hay
72. “Everything in your life, every experience, every relationship is a mirror of the mental pattern that is going on inside of you.” – Louise Hay
73. “It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out the seeds and plant them in order to grow new lemons.” – Louise Hay
74. “Love yourself – Do it now! Don’t wait until you get well or lose the weight, or get the new job, or the new relationship.” – Louise Hay
75. “Guilt is a totally useless emotion. It never makes anyone feel better nor does it change a situation.” – Louise Hay
76. “The thoughts you choose to think and believe right now are creating your future. These thoughts form your experiences, tomorrow, next week, and next year.” – Louise Hay
77. “What a lot of people don’t understand is that when you change your thinking, when you accept different concepts, then life mirrors those for you. If you can get the concept that you’re worthy and loveable and that you deserve to have a better life, life starts bringing those opportunities to you, because that’s your belief system.” – Louise Hay
78. “Love is the biggest eraser there is. Love erases even the deepest imprinting because love goes deeper then anything. If you childhood imprinting was very strong, and you keep saying: “It’s their fault. I can’t change,” you stay stuck.” – Louise Hay
79. “There is an incredible power & intelligence within you that is constantly responding to your thoughts and words. As you learn to control your mind by the conscious choice of thoughts, you align yourself with this power. Do not think that your mind is in control. You are in control of your mind. You use your mind. You can stop thinking those old thoughts.” – Louise Hay
80. “There is so much love in your heart that you could heal the planet.” – Louise Hay
81. “Somewhere someone is looking for exactly what you have to offer.” – Louise Hay
82. “Everything you do is by choice. It may not seem so, but it is.” – Louise Hay
83. “Affirmations are like seed planted in soil. Poor soil, poor growth. Rich soil, abundant growth. The more you choose to think thoughts that make you feel good, the quicker the affirmations work.” – Louise Hay
84. “It’s not your life that sucks…it’s your thinking that sucks!” – Louise Hay
85. “How we start our day is often how we live our lives.” – Louise Hay
86. “In order to change your life outside, you must first change inside.” – Louise Hay
87. “No matter whether your life is pleasant or good; whether you are having big challenges or no challenges, your state of your mind has everything to do with how you will relate to your experiences.” – Louise Hay
88. “We are 100% responsible for all our experiences. Every thought we think is creating our future.” – Louise Hay
89. “We sometimes forget that we are God-beings, and that the intent of the Creator was for us to enjoy this thing called Life!” – Louise Hay
90. “Thoughts are like drops of water: with our thoughts we can drown in a sea of negativity, or we can float on the ocean of life.” – Louise Hay
91. “Today we are mentally preparing for tomorrow. The thoughts we think, the words we speak, the beliefs we accept, shape our tomorrows.” – Louise Hay
92. “The ability to relax and be mindfully present in the moment comes naturally when we are grateful.” – Louise Hay
93. “Every single thought I have and every sentence I speak is an affirmation. It is either positive or negative. Positive affirmations create positive experiences, and negative affirmations create negative experiences. My new affirmation habit is to only speak of the good I want in my life. Then, only good will come to me. I use my affirmations wisely.” – Louise Hay
94. “No matter what our age or what kind of problems we have, we can begin to make positive changes today.” – Louise Hay
95. “Dreams and goals keep us young and interested in life.” – Louise Hay
96. “Don’t ever think it’s too late for you or that you’re too old to dream and have goals.” – Louise Hay
97. “Just because the years are passing doesn’t mean that the quality of our lives must automatically go downhill.” – Louise Hay
98. “We have to believe in ourselves more. It’s all the same thing: We need to release the guilt. We need to forgive. We need to drop all the bullshit we were taught.” – Louise Hay
99. “That’s the way life works: gratitude and appreciation just bring more goodness. Remember: Everything we give out comes back. Gratitude has all sorts of little, surprising rewards.” – Louise Hay
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