Quotes About Self-acceptance

puedes ser escandalosamente feliz en medio de tu maravillosa imperfección.

Minimizar tus comportamientos positivos o pensar que son insignificantes, no es modestia sino una forma de autocastigo.

La imagen psicológica que proyectamos, aunque suene a retórica, es el reflejo de lo que somos por dentro. Si nos sentimos bien con nosotros mismos, seremos auténticos y asertivos, no habrá nada de qué avergonzarnos ni nada que esconder. Lo que cuenta es la identidad, el núcleo duro del que estamos hechos. Una persona que se siente digna no es intachable, sino transparente; no busca aparentar, sino ser.

imposible aprender a quererte a ti mismo si no aceptas vivir intensamente.

Ésa es la esencia del cambio: aceptar que más allá de las apariencias, en el resguardo más escondido de la humanidad que cargamos, hay un sitio especial en el que somos tan crudamente iguales, tan desesperadamente humanos, tan misteriosamente frágiles, que nadie merece sentirse inferior. No hay otra forma de vencer la vergüenza privada que aceptarse incondicionalmente, a pesar de todo, y de todos.

Quererse a uno mismo es considerarse digno de lo mejor, fortalecer el autorrespeto y darse la oportunidad de ser feliz por el solo hecho y sin más razón que la de estar vivo.

Qué se opone a la arrogancia/soberbia? La virtud de la humildad, la cual consiste en reconocerse a sí mismo tal como uno es, sin sobrevalorase ni despreciarse.

No te sientas "mala" o "malo" por actuar de manera coherente con lo que piensas y sientes.

La alegría no está en alcanzar el Yo ideal, sino en el proceso mismo de viajar hacia él sin despreciarse a sí mismo y sin ansiedad.

Habrá mayor insensatez que amar lo que no soy y de extrañar lo que nunca he sido?

It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.

Finally I was able to see that if I had a contribution I wanted to make, I must do it, despite what others said. That I was OK the way I was. That it was all right to be strong.

I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my 'spaceship' and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again.

It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

I can't do any more than I can do, and if people don't like it that's no fault of mine.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

How frequently do you look in the mirror? Does your face please you? Are you disgusted to detect familial features? Do you worship or hate your ancestors? Do you consider your image erotic? Do you pretend that you are a star's child? If you squint, does your reflection become abstract? Is abstraction a transcendental escape from identity or a psychotic spasm of depersonalization?

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.

Wayne Am I supposed to be a man, am I supposed to say, it's OK, I don't mind. I don't mind. Well I mind I mind big time And you know what the worst part is I NEVER LEARNED TO READ.

You mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: "Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In everything give thanks." I am not all the way capable of so much, but those are the right instructions.

make-up, shiny skin, a large nose and wild brown hair.

As long as you know who you are, and see what makes you happy, it doesn't matte how others see you