Quotes About Self-acceptance

Body neutrality is experiential and not something that happens overnight ... It's one awareness at a time, one thought at a time.

It's important to think of self-acceptance as something related to your present state. It means accepting yourself as you are at this very moment. It doesn't mean, "I would love myself more if I lost ten pounds," or "I accepted myself when I was 20 years younger.

My body wasn't the problem; my thoughts and beliefs were.

Forget you need anyone to love you for what you are. That's impossible. I'm afraid. I'm afraid of what you will do now. The pattern's all too familiar.

But what creature in the world doesn't want to be loved for itself?

How can you be ashamed of such things? You're a strange creature, very gentle, I think, and out of kilter with your own time.

Mom? Was there a certain conscious point in your life when you decided to settle for being ordinary?' 

When does the time come when you stand in front of your grown-up woman's mirror and feel contentment for what you see? Ever?

In her skirted pinkswimsuit, her plump shoulders glistening with suntan lotion and her legs lightly dusted with sand, she looked something like a cupcake. She hadn't ventured into the water at all so far, and neither had Red. In fact, Red was wearing his work shoes and dark socks. Evidently this was the year when the two of them were declaring themselves to be officially old.

1. Only a total unself-consciousness will permit me to live with myself" (202).

what you do, the way you think, makes you beautiful

Debería tener la capacidad de ser feliz conmigo misma, de estar satisfecha con lo que soy. No como reina, sino con lo que soy.

But all my life she has tried to change me, to make me thinner, prettier, more like the daughter she wishes I had been. I do not want to live the rest of my life trying to change myself to make someone else happy." She'd never actually put her feelings into words before, but as she did, it all became so clear. She wanted to be loved for who she was.

To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn't look like your idea of beauty.

To look in the mirror and like what you see even if it's not your idea of beauty

It takes a long time to accept yourself for who you are. To see the poetry in your walk," she says, shaking her hips like she's doing some African dance. Kids bust out laughing. "To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn't look like anybody else's idea of beauty." For a minute

You are a person worthy of love. You don't have to do anything to prove that.

We can free ourselves from the old stories that have reduced us & allow real love for ourselves to blossom.

The difference between a life laced through with frustration and one sustained by happiness depends on whether it is motivated by self-hatred or by real love for oneself.

To truly love ourselves, we must challenge our beliefs that we need to be different or better.

When we direct a lot of hostile energy toward the inner critic, we enter into a losing battle.

Enough is a feast. If you are terrified, if you feel impoverished within, if you feel perpetually humiliated, enough will never seem like enough. If you are in touch with inner strength, energy, uplift, enough is more than enough -- like a feast.

We're in charge of our own forgiveness, and the process takes time, patience, and intention.

You don't have to love yourself unconditionally before you can give or receive real love.