Quotes About Self-acceptance

I'm not a fan of fillers at all. If you've gone 35 or 40 years without big lips, I don't think it's time to start plumping them up artificially.

As far as I'm concerned, I don't really care anymore what people think about me. I'm just gonna be me.

I'm not gonna apologize for who I am and what I've gone through.

I am as I am, and I ain't gonna apologise for it.

I'm 5'2'', 5'3'' on a good day.

The bottom line is, I'm blessed with good health. On top of that, I don't go around thinking 'Oh, I'm 90, I better do this or I better do that.' I'm just Betty. I'm the same Betty that I've always been. Take it or leave it.

I'm always going to be myself and I'm a good person.

It took me so long but now I don't care what people have to say about me anymore and it's such a good place to be in.

I was never good at being a boy, but I was always a good student.

The good thing about getting older is that, as you become less attractive, so you have less desire to go out and conquer everyone you see.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

People want me to be so full of shame that I used to dance. I would never be ashamed of it. I made a lot of money. I had a good time, and it showed me a lot.

When you're younger you've got all these hang-ups, but when you get to your 50s you just have a good time.

It took me a while to affirm the fact that I'm actually a really good writer. I couldn't even call myself a writer with a straight face because I didn't take my gift seriously.

Be merciful to yourself, stop fighting yourself quite so much. Maybe what you are asking of yourself, what you're driving yourself to do or to be, what you put a gun to your own back to make yourself do, is something at this point you needn't have to think about doing. So, think back at the end of the day to the wars you're involved in. How are they going?

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and incur my own abhorrence

What is the seal of liberation? Not to be ashamed in front of oneself.

And so, onwards... along a path of wisdom, with a hearty tread, a hearty confidence.. however you may be, be your own source of experience. Throw off your discontent about your nature. Forgive yourself your own self. You have it in your power to merge everything you have lived through- false starts, errors, delusions, passions, your loves and your hopes- into your goal, with nothing left over.

He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.

The great periods of our life occur when we gain the courage to rechristen what is bad about us as what is best.

And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

Why are we not satisfied when life mirrors itself peacefully in a deep lake? …How seldom do we now meet a person who can keep living so peacefully and cheerfully with himself even amidst the turmoil, saying to himself like Goethe: 'The best is the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world, and harvest what they cannot take from me by fire or sword.

Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you.

The great epochs of our life are at the points when we gain courage to rebaptize our badness as the best in us.