Quotes About Self-acceptance

When I get older, I don't think I'll like to have wrinkles, or a big jelly belly. I cannot have it.

It's inevitable: as I get older, I am going to get more wrinkles; it's something you have to accept.

Getting older is baggage for so many people but I don't spend time on things I can't control. Wrinkles don't scare me; they're a part of life, and I will and do embrace them, but I look at surgery, and that scares me.

I'll take my wrinkles. I don't like the Botox thing.

I see wrinkles and lines, and wear glasses to read, which I hate. But I am in a better place in my body than I used to be.

I had decided never to dye my hair because by doing that, it doesn't make a man look young. In fact, I feel the wrinkles on a man's face become more prominent when you dye your hair.

I'm not worried about wrinkles on my cheeks, or going grey. I'm not trying to be 20.

Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn't scare me. It's inevitable - I will get older, and the wrinkles will come, but I'm not that bothered.

My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.

We all get given these bodies, and they're all fascinating and different... I wouldn't want to be without the wrinkles.

I always encourage women to let their individuality show by not covering up what they perceive as flaws. When I see a woman with the natural wrinkles of time on her face, I do not see the wrinkles at all, but when I see a woman trying to cover them up with too much foundation or concealer, all I see are her wrinkles.

When I was younger, out in public, I never wanted to pop my hip and definitely made sure that my wrist was nice and firm. All these silly, prohibitive things.

Don't get hung up on the size. If you feel bad about yourself because a 12 is what fits, take a Sharpie, and write '6' on the label.

It's not easy to filter out all the negative things people say and/or write about you.

I am living with my limitations and have no intention of becoming a writer.

Such silly things, children—and so embarrassing—because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something.

Elphie though: Such silly things, children - and so embarrassing - because they keep changing themselves out of shame, out of a need to be loved or something. While animals are born who they are, accept it, and that is that. They live with greater peace than people do.

Hello, this is I, and these are my arms and legs, which are useful, and this inconvenient hump is my sorrow, which is less than useful, but I've learned how to hump it around, so pay it no mind.

It's been freeing to focus on what works for me rather than what's wrong with me.

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. —Journal of Thomas Merton

I was comforted by the words of my model Benjamin Franklin, who reflected of his own chart: On the whole, though I never arrived at perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet as I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man that I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it.

Progress, not perfection, is the goal. I'm a gold-star junkie

It was time to expect more of myself. Yet as I thought about happiness, I kept running up against paradoxes. I wanted to change myself but accept myself. I wanted to take myself less seriously—and also more seriously. I wanted to use my time well, but I also wanted to wander, to play, to read at whim. I wanted to think about myself so I could forget myself. I was always on the edge of agitation; I wanted to let go of envy and anxiety about the future, yet keep my energy and ambition.

When you are some-'one', why would you wish to be some-'thing'?