Quotes About Self-acceptance

You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.

You've got to love yourself first. You've got to be okay on your own before you can be okay with somebody else.

Love yourself just as you are.

The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful.

Keep doing what you love to the best of your ability. Stop judging and get out of your own way.

If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.

Don't change just so people will like you! Like yourself and your relationships will change. There are people who will love you for - YOU.

Personality begins where comparison ends.

By giving children lots of affection, you can help fill them with love and acceptance of themselves. Then that's what they will have to give away.

People should accept themselves for who they really are and be proud of that and take ownership of that first and learn that self love to really be happy.

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture.

I love myself for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now.

I like the way my own feet smell. I love to smell my sneakers when I take them off.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

Know first who you are and then adore yourself accordingly.

I'm still a doughnut, okay?" I said. "I want to be a bun. I really do. But I'm still a doughnut.

there was another way to live. A way that did not involve anesthetizing yourself. A way that did not mean you lived your whole life as an apology for who you were.

She could show her daughter that there was another way to live. A way that did not involve anesthetizing yourself. A way that did not mean you lived your whole life as an apology for who you were.

La clave consistía en asegurarse de que nadie a quien permitieras caminar a tu lado decidiera quién eras y te etiquetara, como a una mariposa en una caja. La clave era saber que siempre podías encontrar de algún modo la forma de volver a reinventarte.

Not much point worrying what the town thinks about you—nothing you can do about that anyway. But when you look outwards, why, there's a whole world of beautiful things.

You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you

Te niegas todas estas experiencias porque te dices a ti misma que no eres «ese tipo de persona». —Pero es que no lo soy. —¿Cómo lo sabes? No has hecho nada, no has ido a ningún lugar. ¿Acaso tienes la menor idea de qué tipo de persona eres?

what was the point in reexamining your sadness all the time anyway? It was like picking away at a wound and refusing to let it heal.