Quotes About Self-acceptance

Why spend your whole life trying to be somebody that you're not? It's so much more fun to be yourself **** what everybody says.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

Don't apologize for all the tears you've cried, you've been way too strong now for all your life.

Growing up, I just wanted to be like everyone else. I didn't value or understand the beauty in being different at the time in my life.

I stand by every decision I've made throughout my career and my life, good or bad, up or down.

In my life I've easily lost 500 pounds but for some reason they keep finding me.

There is an unmistakable freedom that accompanies contentment: a freedom to be who you are, enjoy who you are, and live the life you were destined to live.

People are not enjoying life because they're trying to be something or brand themselves.

You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you is the day your life begins.

My aim in life is never to be skinny.

I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.

I'll be the first to admit it, the life I'm leading is basically a joke. I should probably be cooler about it, but I can't fake it, you know?

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.

Life's too short to worry about injecting botulism into your face to get rid of a tiny line because you've laughed too much. To me, that's a bit warped.

I would rather be hated every damn day of my life for being real than loved for being something I'm not.

I know that life, I've done all those things, and I can still tell you that just being you is perfectly fine.

Even in normal life, I'm not the skinniest model.

I have to do what I'm supposed to do with my life. Don't think less of me.

If you had told me, though, when I was twenty-four that I would write about Skokie, Illinois, where I grew up, I would have said, 'You're out of your mind. Why would I have Skokie in a poem?' But you become resigned. Your job is to write about the life you actually have.

A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.

You may search my time-worn face, You'll find a merry eye that twinkles I am NOT an old lady Just a little girl with wrinkles.

Be within your skin for the protection of yourself from the awkward attacks and repercussions.

They loved who they'd each been, and who they might have been … not who they were now.