Quotes About Self-acceptance

La hazaña de convertirse en lo que se es exige no únicamente el descubrimiento de los rasgos esenciales bajo el acicate de la pasión, de la insatisfacción, del hastío sino sobre todo el rechazo de estas falsas imágenes, que los falsos espejos ofrecen a la mujer en las cerradas galerías donde su vida transcurre.

That I made a mistake, and that mistake doesn't define me.

See my gray hair. I know I look like an old woman. I'm thirty-eight. My hair turned gray overnight.

You are who you are, Benny Oh. Just don't let anyone tell you that's a problem.

what's the point in beating yourself up when other people will do it for you?

You are who you are Benny Oh. Just don't let anyone tell you that's a problem.

We're in a transient state - why hate our present selves? Let's save the energy for when we are eighty, when we are perhaps above, or beyond, changing. Then we can hate, if hate we must.

Thus when the ambitious man, whose slogan was Either Caesar or nothing, does not become Caesar, he is in despair over it. But this signifies something else, namely, that precisely because he did not become Caesar he now cannot bear to be himself. Consequently he is not in despair over the fact that he did not become Caesar, but he is in despair over himself for the fact that he did not become Caesar.

Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.

I don't even have moderately big breasticles. They just look like - well, nevermind what they look like. At least they stay strapped down when I worm into a sports bra.

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self.

Your life's short, don't ever question the length / It's cool to cry, don't ever question your strength.

In your flaws are hidden your strength. Your perfect imperfection will lead you to change.

Always, my mother said, "Be yourself." That is sometimes the hardest thing to do. I try to always remember that and come back to that and have strength in who you are. There is only one you.

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

Your heart is not wrong. Your heart is your strength. You don't have to be ashamed.

Ah! Seigneur! donnez-moi la force et le courage De contempler mon coeur et mon corps sans de go u" t. Lord! give me the strength and the courage To see my heart and my body without disgust.

I feel like it's always about embracing what it is that you think is wrong with you. It's often times your greatest 'flaw' which actually forays into what is also your greatest strength.

sometimes the only thing wrong with you is thinking something's wrong with you.

He can't value you more than you value yourself.

Seeking perfection just ends up creating ridiculous amounts of stress and disappointment.

The pressure we put on ourselves to produce this perfect... operatic... version of ourselves really puts an inordinate amount of stress and tension on us.

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.