My dear,

You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

I don’t know any other way.

How are you going to shut-out all the hate against you if you don’t love yourself? How are you going to spend kajillions of hours alone improving yourself and your craft if you don’t love yourself? How are you going to take constant rejection over and over if you don’t love yourself? How the hell are you going to even genuinely smile if you don’t love yourself?!

I don’t know how the people who hate themselves get anything done in this world. Maybe they have magical unicorns in their backyards that grant their every wish or something.

Falsely yours,
Lucille Désirée Ball