Quotes About Self-acceptance

When you're raw you don't want people studying your reactions, even if you've convinced yourself you're just fine. Maybe especially then.

To get angry with oneself and reject oneself is not helpful and is not what the Buddha teaches. The best thing is not to say either "I'm all good" or "I'm worthless; I'm no good." The best thing is not to think about oneself, not talk about oneself, not dwell upon oneself at all – to be neither overconfident nor self-deprecating.

To get angry with oneself and reject oneself is not helpful and is not what the Buddha teaches. The best thing is not to say either "I'm all good" or "I'm worthless; I'm no good." The best thing is not to think about oneself, not talk about oneself, not dwell upon

So you're in good company. Ignore the barbs about "lightening up." Enjoy the levity of others and allow yourself your own specialty. If you are not good at chitchat, be proud of your silence. Equally important, when your mood changes and your extraverted self appears, let it be as clumsy or silly as it needs to be. We are all awkward doing our nonspecialty. You possess one piece of the "good." It would only be arrogance to think any of us should have it all.

Think about the impact on you of not being ideal for your culture. It has to affect you—not only how others have treated you but also how you have come to treat yourself.

Just be careful about accepting labels for yourself, such as "inhibited," "introverted," or "shy." As we move on, you'll understand why each of these mislabels you. In general, they miss the essence of the trait and give it a negative tone. For example, research has found that most people, quite wrongly, associate introversion with poor mental health. When HSPs identify with these labels, their confidence drops lower

shy, weak, or that greatest sin of all, unsociable. Fearing these labels, we try to be like others. But that leads to our becoming overaroused and distressed.

Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world

Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying.

Nadie puede hacer que te sientas inferior sin tu consentimiento

So it is a major part of maturity to accept not only your own shortcomings but those of the people you love, and help them not to fail when you can.

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

I am what I am and I have to accept myself; I was born like this, in this city, with this dialect, without money; I will give what I can give, I will take what I can take, I will endure what has to be endured.

And no one knew better than I did what it meant to make your own head masculine so that it would be accepted by the culture of men; I had done it, I was doing it.

I said to myself every day: I am what I am and I have to accept myself; I was born like this, in this city, with this dialect, without money; I will give what I can give, I will take what I can take, I will endure what has to be endured.

I concluded that first of all I had to understand better what I was. Investigate my nature as a woman. I had been excessive, I had striven to give myself male capacities. I thought I had to know everything, be concerned with everything. What did I care about politics, about struggles. I wanted to make a good impression on men, be at their level. At the level of what, of their reason, most unreasonable.

Lina es valiente, incluso demasiado. Pero no sabe adaptarse a la realidad, es incapaz de aceptar a los demás y aceptarse a sí misma

Mi dicevo ogni giorno: sono quello che sono e non posso fare altro che accettarmi; sono nata cosí, in questa cittá, con questo dialetto, senza soldi; daró quello che posso dare, mi prenderó quello che posso prendere, sopporteró ció che c'é da sopportare.

Svakog dana sam sebi ponavljala: to sam što sam, i nema mi druge nego da se s tim pomirim; takva sam ro?ena, u ovom gradu, sa ovim dijalektom, u besparici; da?u od sebe ono što mogu, uze?u ono što mogu, podne?u ono što se mora podneti.

Yes, yes, resign yourself to what you are, each on his own path.

I had to accept myself outside of her.

No quiero ser así, me decía, especialmente en el duermevela; sin embargo, esa era yo, y percatarme de que no conseguía manifestarme más que de ese modo —áspera, criticona— me impulsaba a veces no a corregirme, sino, con un placer perverso, a ser peor.

Dizia a mim mesma todos os dias: sou o que sou e não posso senão me aceitar; nasci assim, nesta cidade, com este dialeto, sem dinheiro; vou dar aquilo que posso dar, vou pegar aquilo que posso pegar, vou suportar o que tiver de suportar.

Soy yo la que no me convengo.