Quotes About Self-acceptance

It's beautiful when someone can carry her own hair and body and curves and bumps.

The stories I want to tell are when we're our own heroes and our own enemies, and I don't think that's a rude thing to ask for. I don't think that's something I should apologize for.

When you're happy with yourself, you have to find another person who is happy with herself so you can share your happiness.

Some people say, 'If she's so real, why does she call herself with a made-up name?' Well, India is my real name. Or they say, 'If she's so real, why does she wear makeup?' I didn't know there was anything wrong with makeup.

I've always been interested in how the individual comes to know and accept him or herself, which I think has been hard for me.

I was a big girl considering herself beautiful, which is in conservative Israel had never been seen.

Hey, I'm comfortable with my masculinity.

Hey, I'm big-boned.

But I find it so difficult to go out and be like 'Hey, I'm a sexpot.' At home I'm just a mum with food down her top!

I've grown up very much living my life very visibly. I've never really hidden who I am.

I think for so long I've hidden. I think actually now I'm in the limelight, I don't want everyone who follows me to think I'm perfect.

I own my sexuality, and I don't try to hide it.

A woman who hides behind a mask of makeup is still going to have to take it off at some point... and deal with reality.

I don't need to hide behind anything because I'm more comfortable with myself.

When you face your fears, you are free of them. There's nothing in the world I need to hide from again.

I'm not saying that being gay is what defines me, but at the same time, if you feel like you have to hide it, then it becomes what defines you. You keep it hidden, and the secret becomes you.

I have never wanted to hide my freckles. I just didn't like the way I looked without them; it didn't look like me.

Don't hide your truth.

I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.

People should never apologize for who they are, and they should never hide who they are. Hating yourself is so 2011.

I've been the person who hides behind people and lets everyone else do their thing, and I've been content there.

It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.

I want to be affirmatively proud of what I have made my way through. And to do that, in the same way I had to tell my father and my family and my friends that I was gay, I need to not hide this anymore.

I'm a goofball, and I have this huge personality, and I used to try to hide that. I used to try to kind of dim my light.