Quotes About Self-acceptance

If only I can be myself, I'll be satisfied.

I know I have my faults and shortcomings, but the blow them all out of proportion!

It's just that I'd like to feel that Father really loves me, not because I'm his child, but because I'm me, Anne.

Ben zengin deÄŸilim, güzel deÄŸilim, ak?ll? deÄŸilim, zeki deÄŸilim, ama mutluyum ve mutlu olaca??m! Mutlu bir doÄŸaya sahibim, insanlar? seviyorum, ÅŸüpheci deÄŸilim ve kendimle birlikte herkesi mutlu görmeyi arzuluyorum.

Let me be myself and then I am satisfied

I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone else to be happy too.

I don't have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone to be happy too.

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be;

I don't have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone else to be happy too.

In bed at night, as I ponder my many sins and exaggerated shortcomings, I get so confused by the sheer amount of things I have to consider that I either laugh or cry, depending on my mod. Then I fall asleep with the strange feeling of wanting to be different than I am or being different than I want to be, or perhaps of behaving differently than I am or want to be.

I'm awfully scared that everyone who knows me as I always am will discover that I have another side, a finer and better side. I'm afraid they'll laugh at me, think I'm ridiculous and sentimental, not take me seriously. I'm used to not being taken seriously but it's only the lighthearted Anne that's used to it and can bear it; the deeper Anne is too frail for it.

I wish I could ask God to give me another personality, one that doesn't antagonize everyone. But that's impossible. I'm stuck with the character I was born with, and yet I'm sure I'm not a bad person.

Na cama, à noite, enquanto penso em meus muitos pecados e em meus defeitos exagerados, fico tão confusa pela quantidade de coisas que tenho que considerar se rio ou choro, dependendo do meu humor. Depois durmo com a sensação estranha de que quero ser diferente do que sou, ou de que sou diferente do que quero ser, ou talvez de me comportar diferente do que sou o do que quero ser.

You're only human. You don't have to have it together every minute of the day.

You're only human. You don't have to have it together every minute of every day.

you're only human. you dont have to have it together every minute of everyday

Never compare your insides to everyone else's outsides.

I'm here to be me, which is taking a great deal longer than I had hoped.

Being enough was going to have to be an inside job.

So Rita and I decided that the most subversive, revolutionary thing I could do was to show up for my life and not be ashamed.

I was learning the secrets of life: that you could become the woman you'd dared to dream of being, but to do so you were going to have to fall in love with your own crazy, ruined self.

We're all afraid of the same stuff. Mostly we're afraid that we're secretly not okay, that we're disgusting, or frauds, or about to be diagnosed with cancer. ... We want to teach you how to quiet the yammer ... how you can create comfort, inside and outside, how you can get warm, how you can feed yourself. And even learn to get through silence. ... There is a wilderness inside you, and a banquet. Both. [p. 253]

If you're not enough before the gold medal, you won't be enough with it.

Almost everyone is screwed up, broken, clingy, scared, and yet designed for joy. Even (or especially) people who seem to have it more or less together are more like the rest of us than you would believe. I try not to compare my insides to their outsides, because this makes me much worse than I already am