Quotes About Self-acceptance

I've learnt that you are who you are, and in the end, if you don't believe it, then no one will.

I'm happy with the decision I've taken. I get up in the morning, and I'm happy, and that is what is important for me in the end. I greet my family, my brothers, my parents. Me being happy doesn't have a price.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic.

We're very, very flawed, myself included.

Le plus grand secret pour le bonheur, c'est d'être bien avec soi.

Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter.

Nzinga didn't miss a beat in replying that black women need to identify racism wherever we find it, especially our own internalized racism, when we're filled with such a deep self-loathing we turn against our own

When love is conditional we feel imperfect and unlovable.

So I'm ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

Of all afflictions, the worst is self-contempt.

I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself, and that is so important. And not just about your body, but so many ways of confidence. You're constantly learning how to be confident, aren't you?

Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.

I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it... I don't want to look like Britney Spears, I just don't want to. She's hideous.

I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and 'Rolling Stone ' and like I think it's really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don't, then you'll never be able to break that barrier.

I thought to be feminine was to give in to straight culture, or the beauty standard, but in my heart I had a flair for fashion and style. They were passions I kept secret because I didn't understand I could love clothes and hair and makeup and still like girls.

We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.

But what does it mean to look after yourself? Your eyes on your own eyes? Your eyes on your own back? Your words conjuring a self-knowing, self-forgiving self? Might you soon belong to you?

and though her life had not been what her more youthful self would have dreamed, it had been unmistakably, irrevocably hers.

They wanted to see the same Bethany they had known before—and frankly, I looked pretty changed. So I quickly set them straight: I was the same person on the inside.

I've decided that the stuff falling through the cracks is confetti and I'm having a party!

What I want to know it whether we're supposed to change or just accept who we are?

From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it.

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.