Quotes About Self-acceptance

The bottom line is, I'm blessed with good health. On top of that, I don't go around thinking 'Oh, I'm 90, I better do this or I better do that.' I'm just Betty. I'm the same Betty that I've always been. Take it or leave it.

Even though no one else can give you what you missed as a child, this doesn't mean you are doomed to never receive it. There is one person who can give you what you missed on- what you so desperately need and desire. That person is you.

When we feel guilt, we feel badly about something we did or neglected to do. When we feel shame, we feel badly about who we are. Put another way: guilty people fear punishment, shamed people fear abandonment. When we feel guilty we need to learn it's okay to make mistakes. When we feel shame we need to learn it's okay to be who we are.

Try to be like the turtle - at ease in your own shell.

People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.

Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young. —Karl Lagerfeld

Anyone who knows who God made them to be will never try to be someone else.

My cousin is an agoraphobic homosexual, which makes it kind of hard for him to come out of the closet.

During his stay in the hospital Allen came to realize that modern society demanded one not necessarily be normal, but act normal.

The hole in me, the neediness, the hunger, the ache in my life that I tried to fill or stay distracted from by using addictive behavior is actually the perfectly logical result of not knowing and therefore not accepting myself as I am.

There's no prerequisites to worthiness. You're born worthy, and I think that's a message a lot of women need to hear.

I need to see my own beauty and to continue to be reminded that I am enough, that I am worthy of love without effort, that I am beautiful, that the texture of my hair and that the shape of my curves, the size of my lips, the color of my skin, and the feelings that I have are all worthy and okay.

The feeling of not belonging, of not being entirely worthy, of being sometimes hostage to your own sensibilities. Those things speak to me very personally.

Being lean doesn't make you any more worthy, any more beautiful or any more valuable. It doesn't make you a more fit person, it doesn't mean you've worked harder in the gym, people who are leaner than you aren't better than you.

What makes me feel most beautiful is feeling confident and sure of myself and knowing that I am worthy and enough and powerful.

It's up to me to empower myself and realize how incredibly worthy I am of healing.

I'm very proud of my roots, and I would never try not to be who I am.

I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.

I wish they would only take me as I am.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

Don't let your wounds make you become someone you're not.

Freedom is... not to be bound by my wounds. And to be able to eat cake every day.

It wasn't until I read 'SI Swim' that I was like, 'Wow, I love my freckles, I like my thighs, I like my curves.'