Quotes About Self-acceptance

When you are honest and humble about your weaknesses, you will be more comfortable in your own skin. When you use your weaknesses to connect with others, love in your life will grow. And finally—finally—you will be able to relax without worrying about being exposed as less than people think you are. To share your weakness without

I'm not qualified to be a high-profile person.

At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance.

That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else - or less.

People say, 'You look so great for your age,' and I say, 'OK, you can leave off the 'for your age' part. Can we all stop qualifying it?'

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

We all have our imperfections. But I'm human, and you know, it's important to concentrate on other qualities besides outer beauty.

I feel like it's weird to list all my crap qualities.

It is all about quality of life and being proud of what I do. I need me to be me.

Contrary to the image of a neurotic man created in some quarters, I feel very much at peace with myself.

I am not a drag queen.

I enjoy just being me. I don't need to be Queen Latifah, the brand, 24 hours a day.

I feel like I'm a drag queen.

I am not a beauty queen, and I was not the popular girl in high school.

I was in the closet up until I moved to the U.S. But I was always one of those kids who couldn't really hide being gay. Some queer kids are just more straight-passing than others. I was not one of those kids.

I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.

I've had moments when I questioned my place in the world. At times, especially in seventh grade, life was lonely and I'd often feel sad. I never wanted to deny who I was, but dealing with the sadness and the anger that came from people constantly making fun of me wore me down at times.

I blindly loved music and never once questioned if I was weird or not. I didn't care. Still don't!

What I believe in and the way I work with my clients is we're so quick to say what we don't like about our bodies, but it's really important to say the things we do like about our bodies. If you know you have great legs or a great butt, or if you're curvy, show it off if you're proud of it.

I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.

Society is so quick to encourage women to see each other as competition, but I think it's important we celebrate and embrace the pieces of our identity we share with others.

I make no apologies for my quirky sense of humor, my personal challenges, my embarrassing moments, my messiness, and deep personal issues I've shared with the world. I have kept it 100% real... Real crazy at times, but always real.

I fully accepted that I cannot grow facial hair, but it is quite emasculating.

It comes to a point where a lot of people don't know if I'm a man or a woman. I find it quite a compliment.