Quotes About Self-acceptance

It's strange how a person can have a distinct distaste for herself, but still she clutches on to life.

To really 'live,' that is to find life reasonably satisfying, you must have an adequate and realistic self-image that you can life with. You must find yourself acceptable to 'you.'

i am perfect because i am inseparable from the infinite, the force of life that creates the stars and the entire universe of light. i am God's creation. i don't need to be what i am not.

Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

It's not me that's obsessed with my weight, it's everyone else. I know that I'm healthy, so I don't really feel the need to answer to anyone. I've never substituted a meal for a salad in my life.

There is a major turning point in life when you have to decide: shall I grow old gracefully or shall I try everything to stem the tide? For me, that point came in 2001, when I stopped dyeing my hair.

Life has taught me to just be the best I can be.

Only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.

I can't believe I was a fat person for most of my life.

I am happy with my past, my present and my future. All three are miraculous building blocks of my beloved, wonderful life.

So I've never in my whole life really been teased about my weight.

I refuse to allow people to stop me from living and enjoying my life.

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

All my life I've tried to make everybody happy while I just hurt and hide, waiting for someone to tell me it's my turn to decide.

The only person you will live your entire life with is yourself.

Even if I screw up in my personal life, as long as I'm not destroying myself, I just think, "Okay, I screwed up." I'm not Mother Theresa.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.

They can say whatever they want about my personal life because I know what my personal life is, and it involves a lot of TV and cats and girlfriends.

My whole life has conspired to bring me to this place, and I can't despise my whole life.

Hey, its not much of a closet is it?" "No. Its not. I don't like closets. Life's to short to spend hiding in the dark.

In the entirety of my life, I have never had an eating disorder.

Had you told me 20 years ago this would be my life, I'd have gone "What?" and then stuck out my tongue to all the girls that were mean to me.

a woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.