Quotes About Self-acceptance

Years later Adrian would confess that the padded shoulders also helped to distract attention from another Crawford liability, her big hips. "To offset her womanly hips, I developed the idea of broad shoulders," the designer told Womens Wear Daily.)

We're taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you're never perfect and that you're never good enough.

But if my fate is truly my fate, then trying to escape it by doing whatever I can to make my life resemble some more beautiful thing will only lead me more quickly to the place I most fear. If there can be no escape from who I am, then I ought to reach my end honestly, able to tell myself, at least, that I have lived it with all of my being, making choices and deciding, and walking the whole way.

To me it's also talking about how it's okay to have your own identity in the face of all this pressure to have some other identity.

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth.

I began to invent something new: a way to hang together without pretending I was whole

I'm not overweight. I'm just nine inches too short.

She looked at her own past, and, for the first time, she forgave herself: it hadn't been her fault, but the fault of that insecure little boy, who had given up after the first attempt.

I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.

My mother never put an emphasis on looks. She let us grow up on our own time line. She never forced any beauty regimen into my world.

I tend to leave the house without makeup all the time. I'm kind of lazy that way.

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.

I'm not great about putting on make-up, I look like a wreck half the time.

There definitely was a time when I was pretty obsessed with my weight, but I'm better off not stressing about my body all the time.

I'll be gray by the time I'm 30, but I like my hair. It looks shiny. I like the way it looks when those highlights are picked up on camera.

I used to wear makeup all the time when I was younger. Now I go out and I don't care.

God spent a little too much time on my nose.

Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can't accept who you are.

I have friends who hide in their bedroom for three days every time they have another birthday. That's what brings the wrinkles! I didn't care when I turned 30 or 40 or 50.

If you put something together and it doesn't look so good, the fashion police are not going to come and take you away. And if they do, you might have some fun in jail.

I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.

A relationship is not two halves coming together to make a whole. Each of you is already complete.

Better to be quirky alone than unhappy together.

I was a chubby boy. My pants used to wear out in the middle, and it was because my legs used to rub together. I wasn't obese, just chunky.