Quotes About Self-acceptance

When you look at me on the telly and say, 'She should be on 'The Undateables,'' you are looking at a 59-year-old woman. That is what 59-year-old women who have not had work done look like. Get it?

a part of me had always known that i'd stayed in the relationship longer than i should because i lacked the confidence to believe i'd find someone else who would accept me and my condition. i was also smart enough to know that would never happen until i fully accepted me.

We'd be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we'd become, or live with regret and disappointment.

We'd be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we'd become, or live with regret and disappointment

Reality could be painful to acknowledge, but there came a point when we all realized we weren't going to walk on the moon, star in a Hollywood movie, or be president of the United States. We'd be who we were, and we could either come to grips with this fact and like the person we'd become, or live with regret and disappointment.

Older women are like aging strudels - the crust may not be so lovely, but the filling has come at last into its own.

Nunca nos deshacemos de algo que nosotros mismos hemos creado. Sólo podemos abrazarlo como algo nuestro y no sentirnos mal por tenerlo ?respondió Merlín.

No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.

You can only be held back by your past if you use it to reject yourself in the present. Your

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

If you tend to berate yourself with negative questions (Why am I so fat?), try asking: What is one thing I like about myself today?

Forgive yourself for being a human creature, Ramezay. That is the beginning of wisdom; that is part of what is meant by the fear of God; and for you it is the only way to save your sanity. Begin now, or you will end up with your saint in the madhouse.

I think you're perfect just the way you are. Don't change anything.

Don't you mind being short?' she blurted. He spread his small hands and looked at them. 'I am a magician, not a princess. A pony costs less to keep than a horse, which means I can buy more books.' He paused. 'It is not always a bad thing, to be overlooked.

And then there's this strange vast serenity that seems to come from the fact that he doesn't feel he has to prove anything.

Nuestra propia necesidad de amor, atención, cariño y seguridad quedó insatisfecha mientras fingíamos ser más poderosas y menos temerosas, más adultas y menos necesitadas, de lo que realmente nos sentíamos.

If you want to improve your life and live with all that you deserve, you must run your own race. It doesn't matter what other people say about you. What is important is what you say to yourself, being comfortable in your own skin. Be true to you. That's a key source of happiness.

Honor your scars as they have made you you.

love you if I cannot love myself," he

Da, budi dosljedan, budi iskren i budi ono što jesi. Kada to uspiješ, tvoje ?e samopoštovanje znatno porasti i osjetit ?eš veliko samopouzdanje.

La mayor parte de la gente no se soporta a sí misma. Por eso nunca pueden estar a solas, ni en silencio. Necesitan estar constantemente con otras personas para escapar de sus sentimientos de odio a sí mismos por todo su potencial perdido, y se pierden las maravillas y la sabiduría que la soledad y la calma aportan. O ven la televisión sin parar y sin darse cuenta de que están erosionando su imaginación y les está llevando a la bancarrota.

La mayor parte de la gente no se soporta a sí misma. Por eso nunca pueden estar a solas, ni en silencio. Necesitan estar constantemente con otras personas para escapar de sus sentimientos de odio a sí mismos por todo su potencial perdido, y se pierden las maravillas y la sabiduría que la soledad y la calma aportan.

If you really loved yourself, you'd relinquish all your feelings of not being good enough to be great and renounce all slavery to your weakness.