Quotes About Self-acceptance

They don't matter. I thought I had to prove something, and I did, to myself. There's nothing left for me to prove. I can move on with my life.

Ultimately, it's not your job, as an actress, to satisfy people's expectations or image of who you should be. Even in your life, you are just who you are.

Kindness is not always about saying yes or giving out compliments. But in whatever way it's expressed, kindness never undermines or denigrates. Its message is always, Whatever you're going through right now, it's all right to be you—to be who you are.

For anyone who has been taught that good equals small and silent, here is my heart with all its ugly tangles and splendid fury.

There will be all these fifty-year-old women wearing hot pants and squeezing themselves into pretzel shapes and then there will be me. Just reaching for my toes like they're China. 'Hello there! You're so far away, I can't get to you! Can you even hear me?

It was like being able to fight, she realized. And being able to change accents. They were powers that lived in your body. They would never leave you, no matter how you looked, no matter who loved or didn't love you.

She would love herself, even with her sadness and her distractibility, her defenses and her failures.

Now is when we can stop pretending to be normal.

Be normal now," she whispers. "Right now." "What?" "Because you are. Because you can be.

Boobs are just inherently undignified.

You don't try to be anyone else and that is a very hard thing in this world. It may seem unimportant right now when fitting in would be so much easier. But later you'll see. Being who you are is everything.

Fat Angie may not have had a body worth promoting according to any number of fashion magazines on the market, but it was a healthier, stronger, and, quite honestly, ready-to-kick-ass-and-take-names body. With

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Before you can be anything, you have to be yourself. That's the hardest thing to find.

Quizás nadie quisiese tal amor, pero podía ya no sentirse avergonzado de él, porque aquel amor era "él", no el cuerpo o el alma, no alma y cuerpo, sino "él" viviendo en ambos.

My recipe for life is not being afraid of myself, afraid of what I think or of my opinions.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.

I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.

They're not women's clothes. They're my clothes. I bought them.

To be liberated from the stigma of blackness by embracing it is to cease, forever, one's interior agreement and collaboration with the authors of one's degradation," he wrote.

I have to live with myself and so, I want to be fit for myself to know.

What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.

What I am is what I am. Are you what you are or what?

The greatest gift a writer can give himself is permission to write badly.