Quotes About Self-acceptance

Advice to Young Journal Keepers . Be lenient with yourself. Conceal your worst faults, leave out your most shameful thoughts, actions, and temptations. Give yourself all the good and interesting qualities you want and haven't got. If you should die young, what comfort would it be to your relatives to read the truth and have to say: It is not a pearl we have lost, but a swine?

When my feelings were too much for me I used to wrap myself in blankets and lie in my closet waiting for the feelings to pass. At one point, I decided to become a person who didn't feel so much. I stand by that decision, though it didn't work.

I'M GLAD I'M NOT PERFECT—I'D BE BORED TO DEATH.

She would always say that people who try to control people and change people's habits are the ones that make all the trouble. If you don't like somebody, walk away, she said, but don't try and make them like you. ---Harriet, on what Ole Golly says

You've been criticising yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

I hope you know that about yourself, that you are perfect on your own. You have to make yourself whole—no one else can.

hope you know that about yourself, that you are perfect on your own. You have to make yourself whole—no one else can.

The thing about settling down that freaks me out is that you're being honest, You're saying, this is me. This is what I can do. This is it.

I can't feel exactly happy... Nobody could that has red hair

In the quiet of an early morning, honesty finds me. It calls to me through a crack in my soul and invites the real me to come out, come out, wherever you are. Not the carefully edited edition of the me I am this year. No, honesty wants to speak to the least tidy version of the woman I've become. The one I can't make look more alive with a few swipes of mascara and a little color on my lips.

You are a beautiful and beloved individual. It is good to be you. We will love you no matter what you do, as long as you are you.

valuable—"I am a valuable person

I'm different,and I like being different.Calvin's voice was unnaturally loud. Maybe I don't like being different,Meg said.but I don't want to be like everybody else,either.

It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of it in myself. I am not always a good daughter, even though my lacks are in areas different from her complaints. Haven't I learned yet that the desire to be perfect is always disastrous and, at the least, loses me in the mire of false guilt?

Maybe I don't like being different, Meg said. but I don't want to be like everybody else, either.

It's a stage we all go through; it takes a certain amount of living to strike the strange balance between the two errors either of regarding ourselves as unforgivable or as not needing forgiveness.

I was just laughing because I felt good. You act as though you keep expecting people to laugh at you. You ought to just laugh at them. I'll bet they're funnier than you are.

your looks—that

It is not your job to make other people comfortable with who you are.

Her idea was that you should be whatever you want to be, including being a blonde.

Success doesn't have to pull, tug, or chafe if we wear our real size.

When you are truly happy you will realise that there is nothing to prove to people.

Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend.