Quotes About Self-acceptance

Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.

Don't you ever wish you were someone else. You were meant to be the way you are exactly. Don't you ever say you don't like the way you are. When you learn to love yourself, you're better off by far.

I think when you get to the point where you don't need to be in love, then you could be in love. You have to just be OK with yourself-and that's a long process.

The best we can do is focus on what we have the power to improve in ourselves, and when it comes to body-love the one you are with.

I just love my age. I really do. I feel like once I hit 40, I felt free to be me.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

As long as a person does not accept himself, he will always have this fear of being misunderstood and misconstrued by his environment;

Imagine that . . . unworthy of the touch of a man, yet worthy of the touch of God.

Nuestro valor nace en nuestro interior.

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone.

Don't deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and as artist, we have to know all we can about each other, and we have to be willing to go naked.

Let nothing dim the light that shines from within

Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it.

I have learned to accept my responsibility and to forgive myself first, then to apologise to anyone injured by my misreckoning.

Because I was really white and because a cruel fairy stepmother, who was understandably jealous of my beauty, had turned me into a too-big Negro girl, with nappy black hair, broad feet and a space between her teeth that would hold a number-two pencil.

Girl, you're going to be all right. You haven't forgotten the essentials. You know about defending yourself. All you have to do now is remember … sometimes you have to defend yourself from yourself.

We must recreate an attractive and caring attitude in our homes and in our worlds. If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves.

I ordered myself to be kind.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do and liking how you do it.

On the day we moved from her house, Mother liberated me by letting me know she was on my side. I realized that I had grown close to her and that she had liberated me. She liberated me from a society that would have had me think of myself as the lower of the low. She liberated me to life. And from that time to this time, I have taken life by the lapels and I have said, "I'm with you, kid.

When I was described by our playmates as being shit color, he was lauded for his velvet-black skin.