Quotes About Self-acceptance

You cannot have proper respect for yourself until you know that you're a monster.

Empecé a superar la tartamudez el día que dejó de importarme.

I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think I don't need or want anything to change that.

I love food and I love my curves.

For there is no doubt that the most radical division that it is possible to make of humanity is that which splits it into two classes of creatures: those who make great demands on themselves, piling up difficulties and duties; and those who demand nothing special of themselves, but for whom to live is to be every moment what they already are, without imposing on themselves any effort towards perfection; mere buoys that float on the waves.

The herbalist nodded, continuing to slowly stir the broth. "You are not the first laevvel I've known," he said. "Laevvel?" She'd never heard the word before. "Yes, from the Old Aldin laevvel bran'maur. It means 'beyond the loom of Braniel and Maurenna', in fact." He smiled and rested a hand on her head. "When the body and the true self do not match, it means. Like a girl born to a boy's body.

JESUS LOVES YOU—EVERYONE ELSE THINKS YOU'RE AN ASSHOLE

I never feel guilty

Once upon a time she had liked to dance. When she had been about the same age as the little brunette out there who kept lifting her dress up over her head. Now that was living. Just lift your dress if you wanted to get down and don't worry what anyone thought.

I grab a sticky note from my bedside table. Reasons It's Okay to Be Me: 1. This is exactly how God wanted me to be. 2. We don't all have to be doctors! 3. If everyone were a genius, we would have no normal people, and then geniusness would be a normality. Without me, Zach is not a genius. 4. Even though it is for Zach, I still get Cheesecake Factory too! Yay!

No one is more qualified than you to set the standards for you.

And it is nice to know that it matters not what others are choosing, or what others are even thinking about what I am choosing. What is important is that I am pleased with me, and as I see myself, I certainly am.

You are not here to prove your worthiness. You are worthy! You are here for the experience of joyful expansion.

One who does not condemn, never has to forgive. Your Inner Being will never forgive you because your Inner Being has never condemned you. Abraham -- G 6/13/92

Feeling at home is the feeling that I can just be myself. It

You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

I wouldn't change one thing about my professional life, and I make it a point not to dwell on my mistakes.

The white audiences thought I was white, my features being what they are, and at every performance I'd have to take off my gloves to prove I was a spade.

But if you're content to be simply yourself, you will become more than yourself.

You're blessed when you're content with just who you are—no more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought.

Don't try to fix me, I'm not broken...

I can be the same Kiana that I am at home, on set, in interviews, everywhere that I go. And I think that it's such a relief when you accept that and acknowledge that about yourself.

When I admitted I needed to grow old as a woman, it was a relief.

Body positivity, to me, is finally being able to see my body for the amazing machine it is. Now I am looking at my body for all the things it can do, the way it keeps up with me with the hectic demands of an actors work life. Its a relief.