Quotes About Self-acceptance

I want to live the next chapter in my life without my lips as my defining characteristic.

Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.

I am not a member of Fat Liberation, nor do I think that obesity is healthy. But I do believe that in many ways my life has been a more charmed and happy one because I was always large.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.

Bear in mind that beauty is individual and personal, that the look and feeling you're after is one with which you can be comfortable each and every day of your life.

It's very easy for me to laugh at myself and laugh at life.

You have to learn to be very, very gentle to start with - with yourself eventually. Meditation is not something that you force. It is something that happens to you because life gives you a gift.

My goal was just to live a good life that I was happy with. And I wasn't exactly sure that that meant being the star of a movie.

I needed to stop forcing myself to fit into something I could never be a part of.

A woman in her glory, a woman of beauty, is a woman who is not striving to become beautiful or worthy or enough. She knows in her quiet center where God dwells that he find her beautiful, has deemed her worthy, and in him, she is enough.

I was a coward. I said it aloud to myself: you are a coward. I didn't care. It was better to be a live coward than a dead madman.

You wish to be liked. I wish simply to be. One day you will know what that means, perhaps. And you will smile. Not against me. But with me.

when you're broken, everything gets a little honester - you make mistakes and don't give a damn - you give up on perfection, but get real...

I wasn't normal, and no matter how hard I tried, I was never going to be. And though I didn't hear it at the time, a small part of me exclaimed "Good!

I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things.

She turned the water scalding hot and scrubbed her face until it hurt, but the eyes still looked wrong. She tore off her clothes and stepped into the shower; but it was not enough. The dirt was on the inside.

But no, I decided, he is just a man at peace with himself and with life—an accomplishment rare in its own right.

It is ironic that the moment you can accept yourself as you are, you can easily change yourself and become different. So long as you dislike yourself it is difficult to change, for it is self-acceptance at the deepest level which frees us to move on

One might as well claim that the tide which rubs pebbles smooth on a beach is doing the pebbles a service because being round is prettier than being jagged. It's of no concern to a pebble what shape it is. But it's very important to a person.

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always been a freak. So I've been a freak all my life and I have to live with that, you know. I'm one of those people.