Quotes About Self-acceptance

There's so much more to life than looking a certain way.

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you?

It's become another dimension to who I am. I don't think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I'm at a different place in my life.

Every day of my life I walk with the idea I am black no matter how successful I am.

I wish I could tell every young girl with an eating disorder, or who has harmed herself in any way, that she's worthy of life and that her life has meaning. You can overcome and get through anything.

My whole life, I've wanted to feel comfortable in my skin. It's the most liberating thing in the world.

I can't maintain the body of a 16-year-old anymore. That's just a really boring life to me. You really just cannot do anything fun, ever.

So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

Feel that life likes you just the way you are; otherwise, it would have made you differently.

Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life.

If you did not care at all what anyone else thought about you, what would you do differently or change in your life?

When you acknowledge that there is nothing repulsive or unforgivable or shameful about yourself, it becomes easier to be that authentic person and feel like you're living a less performed life.

For a long time I tried to manage an honesty and openness about my personal life because I'm human and I'm normal – well, semi-normal.

I don't want to spend my life in my 40s feeling bad about being in my 40s, and then all of a sudden I'm 50, and I will have missed a whole decade!

Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.

In New Zealand I think we often take ourselves too seriously, and being able to laugh at yourself is necessary in life without being too precious.

I've just gone through so much in my life that pulling my top up just doesn't seem like that big a deal.

The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

It's like, at the end, there's this surprise quiz: Am I proud of me? I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth what I paid?

I was completely nuts for most of my life.

It's a beautiful heart, not a perfect body, that leads to a beautiful life.

We are here not to make something of ourselves. We are here to Be ourselves.

If we really feel like we're comfortable in our own skins now, we have a longer period of time to live out that kind of third or fourth act of our life.

You do not have to do anything to defend yourself in life; just be beautiful, and life will defend you.