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Love Quote by Kristin Chenoweth

"If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy"

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Chenoweth’s line carries the breezy warmth of a self-help mantra, but it lands because it’s really about performance fatigue: the constant audition of modern life, where you’re always being evaluated, curated, and compared. “Love yourself and all the flaws” isn’t a Hallmark pitch for narcissism; it’s a refusal to keep treating imperfections like debts you have to pay down before you’re allowed to be in relationship with anyone else.

The subtext is practical, almost tactical. If you’re locked in self-correction mode, other people become mirrors and measuring sticks. You’ll bargain for reassurance, read rejection into silence, police your own “lovability” in real time. Chenoweth proposes a different engine: self-acceptance as an efficiency upgrade for intimacy. When you stop litigating your worth, you have more attention to give. You can listen without defensiveness, apologize without collapsing, celebrate someone else without feeling erased. “So much better” is telling; this isn’t mystical transformation, it’s improved functioning.

Context matters: coming from an actress, the message doubles as backstage wisdom. Actors make a living being judged on bodies, voices, faces, likability, “type.” Self-love here sounds less like bath-bomb serenity and more like occupational safety equipment. The closing line, “And that makes you so happy,” is intentionally simple, even childlike, because the promise isn’t enlightenment. It’s relief. Happiness as the quiet byproduct of no longer treating yourself as a problem to solve, which frees your relationships from becoming negotiations over your bruised self-image.

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Chenoweth, Kristin. (2026, January 15). If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-can-learn-to-love-yourself-and-all-the-161476/

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Chenoweth, Kristin. "If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-can-learn-to-love-yourself-and-all-the-161476/.

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"If you can learn to love yourself and all the flaws, you can love other people so much better. And that makes you so happy." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-can-learn-to-love-yourself-and-all-the-161476/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.

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Kristin Chenoweth (born July 24, 1968) is a Actress from USA.

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