Quotes About Self-acceptance

Because I've overcome the vanity and pride of being different. I've understood that they are a pitiful defense against being different. Because I've understood that the sun shines differently when something changes, but I'm not the axis of those changes.

I warrant, Ciri, that it is better to count yourself amongst those few than amongst everyone.

Become a priest. You wouldn't be bad at it with all your scruples, your morality, your knowledge of people and of everything. The fact that you don't believe in any gods shouldn't be a problem—I don't know many priests who do. Become a priest and stop feeling sorry for yourself.

Wygodniej by? Polakiem, bo skoro si? nim urodzi?e?, to masz wszystko na tacy. Masz gotowy patriotyzm, wszystkie odpowiedzi i pytania, nie musisz kszta?towa? si? w ?aden sposób, bo ci wystarcza ta polska to?samo??, do której zreszt? nie przy?o?y?e? r?ki. A czy jeste? ?wini?, czy zrobi?e? cokolwiek dobrego w tym ?yciu – to ju? niewa?ne.

I realize today that it is impossible to fight an enemy living in my head. By forgiving myself, I erase the doubts, fears, and frustration that have kept my past in the present. From this day forward, my history will cease to control my destiny. I have forgiven myself. My life has just begun. I will forgive even those who do not ask for forgiveness. I will forgive those who criticize me unjustly. I will forgive myself. I will greet this day with a forgiving spirit.

My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.

A los veinte años yo calculaba, medía, pesaba y planificaba. Casi cuarenta después, era capaz de apretarme la nariz y tirarme a la pileta sin haber averiguado antes si había agua o no. Pero con los ojos abiertos. Me gustaba más a mí misma ahora que a los veinte años. Una de dos, o la experiencia me había dado lo que la sabiduría popular atribuye a la juventud, o la sabiduría popular es una mierda. Me incliné por la segunda posibilidad.

I toppled off my pyrotechnic tiger and, as I plunge downwards, endlessly as Lucifer, I ask myself: "What is the most miraculous event in the world?" And I answer myself: "I am going to fall into my own arms. They stretch out to me from the bottom of the pit.

What I do feel, really, is that I am a lot more ordinary than I thought. This probably only means I've come to terms with being peculiar; possibly, also, the time for existential leaps is over and I am myself, now.

I was so unaccustomed to nakedness. I was so unused to my own skin that to take off all my clothes involved a kind of flaying.

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

And she tried the high heels but she couldn't bring herself to prance.

my thighs have been involved in many accidents and now i can't get insured and i don't need to be lured by you

There are 3 billion women in the world who don't look like supermodels and only 8 that do.

What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them – that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept oneself as one is, without fear, or envy, or distaste; and to recognise and accept the conditions under which one lives, also without fear or envy, or distaste. When you do this, you shall be free.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

Kids are always told that they can be anything that they want. But what if you want to be a ballerina, and you're terrible at ballet? Or what if you're gifted at ballet, but you don't like doing it?

If I'm hated, so what? If I'm loved, so what?

I personally battled with my own body image for years. I used to tell myself, You can't wear anything sleeveless or strapless. And all of a sudden I was like, What if I just didn't send such negative messages to my brain and said, wear it and enjoy it? And now I'm more comfortable in clothes than ever.

What if everything I thought was wrong with me was actually right with me? You have to have the courage to show who you are to the world.

When a person makes fun of you, when a person is cruel to you, it has nothing to do with you. It's not about what you said. It's not about what you did. It's not about what you love. It's about them feeling bad about themselves.

You can be whatever size you are, and you can be beautiful both inside and out. We're always told what's beautiful and what's not, and that's not right.

For me personally, I just don't have anything to prove anymore. I know exactly who I am, I know that I'm intelligent and acting dumb or acting like whatever. If that's funny to me because I know it's false then so be it.