Quotes About Self-acceptance

The low points I had all helped make up my character, so I probably wouldn't want to do away with them because I like being flawed and I like having them help me grow and change and become better and stronger.

I'd rather be a few pounds heavier and enjoy life than be worried all the time.

God made a very obvious choice when he made me voluptuous; why would I go against what he decided for me? My limbs work, so I'm not going to complain about the way my body is shaped." ? Drew Barrymore tags: self-image 71 likes Like

When they [breasts] are huge, you become very self-conscious...I've learned something though, through my years of pondering and pontificating, and that is: men love them, and I love that.

You learn to be comfortable in your own skin, and your body changes throughout life, so you can't sweat the small stuff.

Be yourself, take control of your life.

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

The worst guilt is to accept an undeserved guilt — and that is what you have been doing all your life.

In real life I'm very low-key. A wallflower. One of the reasons I went into comedy and acting was that I was sick of being shy.

When I see a woman who looks her age, she's radiating something, and it's life.

The truth is, I've been the Hulk my whole life.

I think the only way to get through this life is laughing hard and constantly, mostly at myself.

Life is so much easier when I allow myself to be myself and go with the flow.

No matter what I do with my life, or how successful I am, I will always be a socially awkward penguin inside.

Our job is to become OK with who we are and what our life has been - and keep enduring.

I don't have anything to prove ever, ever in my life. If I have something to prove, what does that mean for everyone else? And I think everyone should have that attitude.

I say embrace the total geek in yourself and just enjoy it. Life is too short to be cool.

You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you - and notice it, and be glad for it.

Your most important sale in life is to sell yourself to yourself.

You can't build joy on a feeling of self-loathing.

I don't think being flawed is a bad thing for a character... nor do I think it's a bad thing for a person in life, because that's how we all are.

I didn't think it was my job to accept what everyone said I was and who I should be.

So instead of beating myself up for being fat, I think it's a miracle that I laugh every day and walk through my life with pride, because our culture is unrelenting when it comes to large people.

We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.