Quotes About Self-acceptance

I'm not an Adonis, that's for damn sure. I've never really thought of myself that way, and it doesn't matter to me. My favorite actors aren't Adonises. Dustin Hoffman is a flawed-looking man he's amazing to me. Tom Hanks is flawed-looking people love him. Same with Gene Hackman.

We must reject not only the stereotypes that others hold of us, but also the stereotypes that we hold of ourselves.

You became an adult when you stopped caring what other people thought about you and started to care what you thought about them.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

Possibly because I grew up not feeling very confident about my own physical appearance, I developed internal devices so that I could integrate into society.

This MGM flurry of concern about my body was unnerving. Having always taken my appearance for granted, I felt suddenly misshapen. Even Mother, whose earlier comments had always been good-natured, joined the critical chorus. [...] Stuck with myself, once again I resolved to stay friends with my body.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

They have never found that area within themselves where they can be peaceful with who they are, what they are, and where they are. In

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.

Try to drown the whispers in your head that are negative with the knowledge, with the stronger and louder certainty that you are wonderful, inspiring and interesting, both now and into your future.

Shame was one of those things that had to be excised like a cancer, but it was a hard thing to remove when it was wrapped around your heart.

To lose confidence in one's body is to lose confidence in oneself.

My dream is to find a guy who'll love me despite my flaws and won't turn away from me when a perfect girl walks by. Maybe a boy like that doesn't even exist.

I don't want to always be 'the best I can be.' I just want to be me.

Don't be afraid to be unique. Love yourself before you love another.

Listen, I didn't ask for a face and body girls find attractive. But thanks to the mixture of my parents' DNA, I've got them, and I'm not ashamed to use 'em.

Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.

Choose what makes you feel right within, not for others.

Trying to run from problems, is the same as trying to run away from our own shadow.

D. W. Winnicott, un psychanaliste et pédiatre anglais: "Se réfugier dans la normalité, ce n'est pas la santé." (p.96)

Don't hide yourself in regret, Just love yourself and you're set I'm on the right track, baby I was born this way

Every life is narrow. Our only escape is not to run away, but to learn to love the people we are and the world in which we find ourselves.

Love might have expanded her. But we are not all of us going to get loved. We are not all of us going to get expanded.