Quotes About Self-acceptance

Some of us have scars you can see and some of us have scars that we hide deep inside, hoping no one will ever ask about them.

AIDS can destroy a family if you let it, but luckily for my sister and me, Mom taught us to keep going. Don't give up, be proud of who you are, and never feel sorry for yourself.

You should move toward whatever changes, whatever surgeries, whatever renovations or alterations or restorations will create you in the glory you deserve, oh yes you should. And you should do it with your usual style, and you should do it without shame, and when you're healed up and ready we can go shopping for something fabulous to showcase the many wonders of you.

Kimseyle hiçbir konuda yar?? halinde de?ilim. Kimseden ak?ll?, kimseden güzel, kimseden iyi olma gibi bir iddiam yok. Kimse için en de?ilim. Daha de?ilim. Bu devasa iddias?zl???n bana verdi?i özgürlü?ün hastas?y?m.

And in my private life I prefer not to pass myself off as what I'm not (Daniel Brennan)

going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

I have learned to hate every drop of white rapist blood that is in me

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

After years of searching, I have found my soulmate, and it is myself. The bachelor is content. Oh, he still dates women from time to time, and he listens to the wedding marches sometimes too. But only because he likes them.

Happiness Habits for Empowerment 1. Focus on the Solution 2. Look for the Lesson and the Gift 3. Make Peace with Yourself

Fat people often think of themselves solely in terms of the 'neck up.' Their bodies are disowned, alienated, foreign, perhaps stubbornly present but not truly a part of the real self.

I am what I am. We are what we are.

The way to peace is to be content with yourself, honor the light of reason within, live in harmony with others, and be grateful to the gods for the universe and your role in it.

Now forget what they think of you. Be satisfied if you can live the rest of your life, however short, as your nature demands. Focus on that, and don't let anything distract you. You've wandered all over and finally realized that you never found what you were after: how to live. Not in syllogisms, not in money, or fame, or self-indulgence. Nowhere.

The pride that prides itself on freedom from pride is the hardest of all to bear.

No one can keep you from living as your nature requires. Nothings can happen to you that is not required by Nature.

Whatsoever thou doest hereafter aspire unto, thou mayest even now enjoy and possess, if thou doest not envy thyself thine own happiness.

Be content to seem what you really are.

If then your eyes have really seen where the truth lies, do not care any more what men shall think of you, but be content if the rest of you life, whether long or short, be lived as your nature wills.

Sudi o sebi sukladno svakoj rije?i ili djelu što su u skladu s prirodom i ne dopuštaj da te ikakve i i?ije zakašnjele kritike i uvjeravanja odvrate od toga .Ne, ako je to bilo dobro re?i ili u?initi, onda se ne odri?i vlastita prava. Te druge vodi njihov um i oni se pokoravaju vlastitim porivima. Neka te ništa takvo ne smeta, nastavi ravno naprijed i slijedi vlastitu prirodu kao i prirodu univerzuma - njih dvije kro?e jednom i istom stazom.

I see that there will be no end to imperfection, or to doing things the wrong way. Even if you grow up, no matter how hard you scrub, whatever you do, there will always be some other stain or spot on your face or stupid act, somebody frowning.

I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

They are as happy as they can be, given who they are. Though if they'd been different people they might have been happier.

I avoid looking down at my body, not so much because it's shameful or immodest but because I don't want to see it. I don't want to look at something that determines me so completely.   I