Quotes About Self-acceptance

I'm sure there were people who were disappointed that I got slimmer, but as one gets older one does often get a bit thinner. There was no great mystery: I had some puppy fat and I lost it.

I absolutely didn't think, 'I am really fat, I must get thinner.'

When I hit my thirties, that's when I calmed down and I wasn't so tough on myself. I wasn't doing the yo-yo dieting any more. I gave myself a break. I think that, if you're more accepting of yourself, you're more free and open and can just allow more people in.

There's a certain thing when you start getting into your late thirties or early forties where you stop caring. Not to the extent where you stop caring about the music, you just stop caring about what anyone thinks of you, and you just kind of let it go - let the chips fall where they may.

I feel - as I'm edging to my thirties, I feel like a stronger person and a more confident person.

Feminism... I think the simplest explanation, and one that captures the idea, is a song that Marlo Thomas sang, 'Free to be You and Me.'

I hated being Gareth Thomas. I hated the man I looked at in the mirror.

I started being really proud of the fact that I was gay even though I wasn't.

For the most part, I don't do anything to my brows. They aren't bleached, just naturally light. Maybe when I was a little kid, I thought they were strange, but I realized as I got older, the things that make you different are the things that are special about you.

When I was 15, I didn't think I was the prettiest at all. But then something happened when I was 20-something - I thought, actually, I really like what I look like. Just because I don't look like everybody else doesn't mean that I can't be just as beautiful.

Getting older doesn't bother me. When I was 30, I thought I should have achieved more, but you get more comfortable and think it's time to stop putting pressure on yourself.

One of my first thoughts I had when I started considering the mastectomy was, 'What am I going to look like?' And then, 'What will my husband think?'

I'm definitely not a supermodel, a thousand per cent.

More than once in the orphanage, I'd been asked if I wanted to look different. Truth is, I never did. I knew who I was when I looked into the mirror, my mother's daughter.

You're born naked, the rest is drag.

Se as plantas tivessem olhos, gosto e capacidade de julgar, cada planta diria que a sua flor é a mais bonita". Esse não é o nosso caso. Somos os únicos seres que não estão contentes com o que são. Queremos ser diferentes. Por isso estamos infelizes e doentes.

I never want to try to be a spokesperson for health and wellness because I most definitely am not the most in shape person in the world.

to fill that gap. The habit of judging ourselves is what pounds us into the ground. You're

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

Whatever people think of me is none of my business.

I realize that no one has been crueler to me than I have been to myself. The most dangerous place on earth is inside my head.

We often play small, so as not to threaten other people. We don't want to intimidate them by our brightness, but the truth is, you do them and yourself a disservice by dimming what you've been given—your intelligence, your light. Those are your gifts.

HAVING A FAT ASS IS A GOOD THING.

You stand outside the circle and wonder why you feel left out, unaware that you need your own permission to join the others-not theirs.