Quotes About Self-acceptance

Loving the self involves faith and trust and belief in who you are, and a willingness to take action upon it.

You know something funny? I never came out. I feel like who I am spoke for itself, and I never wanted my sexuality to be my defining moment, and it isn't, so I feel like to me, the most important thing is that you're comfortable in your own skin.

My whole point of view was, "I'm not gonna change. I'm not gonna get a nose job. I'm not going to pretend I'm the girl next door."

cheek, the one so disfigured by that

For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves

My 10-year challenge is to look back on the woman I was and to look forward on the woman I am becoming and continually be proud of every version of myself.

Be Yourself Not What The World Wants You To Be

There are all these perfect people here. And it's like if you're not one of them, then you're messed up. But I think, inside, the flawless-looking people are just messed up as we are.

Maybe the only thing that really matters is how you see yourself.

It's not arrogant to know who you are. It's powerful. And I am powerful.

It took me a long time and much painful boomeranging of my expectations to achieve a realization everyone else appears to have been born with: That I am nobody but myself.

Every time you suppress some part of yourself or allow others to play you small, you are in essence ignoring the owner's manual your creator gave you and destroying your design.

God accepts us unconditionally, and in his view we are all precious and priceless. Focus on this and you will not waste any time and effort trying to be someone you're not.

I've let go of being a super perfectionist on every single note and wanting the pitch to be absolutely perfect all of the time. I grew up watching the best of the best.

I don't want to be myself, ever. I'm terrible at a snapshot. Terrible. I blink all the time. I've got facial Tourette's. Unless I'm working and in that zone, I'm not very good at pictures, really.

Some people are medicating themselves all the time so that they don't have to embrace themselves. If you can't feel, you can't embrace.

I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

Aging gracefully is supposed to mean trying not to hide time passing and just looking a wreck. Don't worry girls, look like a wreck, that's the way it goes.

I made mistakes, I drank too much, I smoked some crack some time. What can I say? I made a mistake, I'm human.

I can't wait for the time when curves and a little belly fat will be sexy again!

I'm trying to be slightly happier with myself. No one really wants to be miserable all the time.

I have a job that allows me not to look perfect all the time. I can just go looking the way I look, have my hair just any old type of way.

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.