Quotes About Self-acceptance

It can be a good thing, too, to learn to sit in your own weirdness.

STOP JUDGING AND EVALUATING YOURSELF, for this is not your role. Above all, stop comparing yourself with other people. This produces feelings of pride or inferiority, sometimes a mixture of both. I lead each of My children along a path that is uniquely tailor-made for him or her. Comparing is not only wrong; it is also meaningless. Don't look for affirmation in the wrong places: your own evaluations or those of other people. The only source of real affirmation is My unconditional Love.

EPHESIANS 2:7–8; HEBREWS 3:1; PSALM 34:5 I am the Lover of your soul, and I long for you to stop judging yourself as you do. How can you better fix your gaze on

When you feel flustered and frazzled on the outside, do not get upset with yourself. You are only human, and the swirl of events going on all around you will sometimes feel overwhelming. Rather than scolding yourself for your humanness, remind yourself that I am both with you and within you.

It wasn't a perfect body but it was the body she deserved. Not just from every bar of chocolate or bag of crisps or laden plate of food that she'd eaten. This body was also testament to all the hours in the gym and cycling up hills on her bike and glugging down two litres of water a day and learning to love vegetables and fruits that didn't come as optional extra with a pastry crust. She'd earned this body. This was her body and she had to stop giving it such a hard time.

You'll always be a fat girl. You don't know how to be anything else.

She was finally beginning to understand that her fixation on being a size ten had been another excuse to spend her life in preparation, instead of living it and taking risks and maybe getting hurt in the process.

If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.

There are two of me now, old and disfigured, new and disheveled. A crinkled, yellow newspaper balled up in the fireplace, spidery face, rotted jaw, sewn and resewn.

do you hate yourself i wonder? you can't expect others to accept you until you've been able to accept yourself. sometimes i think i can really feel the pain. i've been there, i live there. but if you can make it through, nothing will beat you. you know the madhouses are full of emotional suicides. let's just take it day by day.

Never apologize for saying what/how you feel. Cuz' that's like saying, "Sorry for being real".

Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don't need to justify it to anyone . . . not even to ourselves.

I don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.

I had a great time in my youth and I still feel youthful. I've no desire to look as though I'm in my 20s.

Rather than spend so much time wondering if I'm going to get hired, or is it a problem that I've got this black-tar history, I've just got to keep doing what I'm doing and try to be decent.

I think it just takes time in order to come to a place where your comfortable being who God made you to be.

I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.

There's gonna be a time when I'm way curvier, and that'll be sexy too. What defines sexy is not someone's weight. Personally I like curves. I wanna look good for me. I wanna feel good.

it's perfectly possible to hate one's fat and to love one's body at the same time.

I have no idea why my mom picked Bob, and I've never asked her. My name used to get slaughtered all the time by other people. I was 'Desmond' or 'Damon' or 'Demon.' So Bob's cool.

How do you convince someone to change, to stop being afraid of himself? How do you convince yourself not to be so scared all the time?

I am China, pronounced as Chee-na. And I think it's time the world lets older women age gracefully.

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.