Quotes About Self-acceptance

After you have kids, you feel differently about your body. Aesthetically, am I happy with my body? No. I definitely think you come to view it as more functional. But you just get past it.

I have decided to stop dieting because it doesn't work for me and I am annoyed with myself for ever trying. I have decided to enjoy the body I have. I tell myself how lucky I am to have a body that functions so well.

The more I become comfortable in my own skin, I think the funnier I become.

How does thee like thyself?

I had a concise list of what I wanted out of life, three things (my merry mantra): to be thin, to publish a book with my name on it, and to fall in love with a man who loved me back. (In the wisdom of my thirties I revised this to be a sane man.) The last two items were predicated on being thin.

Pam Peeke's formula, "For every twenty-five pounds removed, it takes one year to mentally adjust. So be kind to yourself, okay?

Quit it already. I'm pretty enough as it is.

David had said something about her 'distinctive features'. Was he going to make her look ethnic? Jade worried. She was trying so hard to look just like everyone else!

Good thing you lost those two pounds, Jess," she told herself. "Dan wouldn't want to put his arms around a blimpo.

At root, I am happy with myself. I do not mind being alone.

soportarse a uno mismo podía llegar a ser la tarea más complicada de todo el universo.

It's not what a man has but what a man is that's important. This car is fine for me. It gets me around. I know who I am and what I am, and that's what counts, not what other people might think of me.

I believe that one day I will like myself.

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

I am as I am, and that's all there is to it, I can hardly take a pair of scissors to myself, and cut out a different person...

I am forever fettered to myself [...] and that's what I must try to live with.

After tormenting myself for a long time, i am stopping

I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.

If you feel good about who you are inside, it will radiate.

I never walk into a room and say, 'Hi! I am Vanessa Williams' daughter.' It helps me to become more authentic.

I've never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I'm 35, which I'm not, and have them say, 'Oh that's nice,' when I could tell them I'm 47, which I am, and have them look at me and go, 'Whoa!'. I'm not afraid of aging. I stopped being afraid of life a long time ago.

You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.

I know I'm not Freddie Mercury or Ann Wilson, and that's okay. You don't have to be a great singer to sing rock and roll. That's not what it's about.

My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her.