Quotes About Self-acceptance

I don't know why everyone feels the pressure to look young. Personally, I hate it. I don't want to inject Botox and look young forever. It's living in denial and anything that has an undercurrent of this philosophy is bad for your growth.

You know, I'm just a very boring, not very funny person in person. I don't feel pressured to be otherwise.

In this perfect world, there are certain imperfections that catch your eye. That's what works for me. I don't concentrate on being perfect, but instead put that effort behind my craft and being true to myself. I don't conform to pressures outside of me. I am confident about myself.

People are always going to tell you to lose weight, and they tell you how they feel about it. There are pressures always to be a certain weight, but you have to be who you are. And if you want to change, you have got to do it for you and not for what people want you to be.

I'm not going to pretend to be anything I'm not.

I don't have to pretend to be someone I'm not and I think talking so openly about my story gave me acceptance that it's ok to be me.

I don't pretend to be perfect.

I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia.

Nobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand.

One of the biggest challenges for me is that I'm still a human being. I'm a very imperfect human being. I'm very open about the fact that I'm not trying to pretend to be better than anyone else.

I'm not going to pretend that I'm something I'm not just because society says celebrities should be these perfect people that have to act a certain way.

Jesus didn't die for us so we could pretend to be something we're not.

I don't try to pretend to be what I'm not. I don't feel I need to do anything outrageous.

I decided very early on that it took too much of my energy to pretend to be someone else. People will make up their minds about me whatever I do or say, but at least I know I am being true to myself.

I don't pretend to be a great interviewer; I don't even pretend to be good at my job.

I didn't ask to be short. I didn't want to be short. I've tried to pretend that being a short guy didn't matter.

I'm not downplaying my age - because humankind is such that people run away from their age. Especially women. Guys pretend not to care, but they do. Age is not a good thing to most human beings. But, being an alien, I embrace it.

We all try to pretend we're the person we want to be when we're really not, and you've just gotta be willing to say, 'Here are all my flaws; here's who I am - take it or leave it. If you love me still, then let's do this.'

I'm not dyeing my hair and trying to pretend I'm 40. That's not going to work for me.

I'm not gonna sit and pretend I'm hard as nails.

It is too exhausting to try and make everyone happy or pretend.

I've never been one of those nanas who pretends to be young.

What is it in us that makes us feel the need to keep pretending... we gotta let ourselves be.

I'm not pretending that I'm the perfect body shape.