Quotes About Self-acceptance

My whole life is an interracial relationship! It's inescapable. I am who I am.

A lot challenges me! Not psyching myself out, not doubting myself, not comparing myself to others... all of that challenges me. But inevitably, challenges are put into our lives so that we may grow and become the best version of who we are meant to be.

I am a firm believer that the only person who can make you feel inferior is yourself.

Don't let anyone make you feel inferior, because you are great. Be comfortable and confident in you skin.

I'm not afraid to play my age. I never was. I've never been an ingenue. I like getting older.

Obviously I probably have internalized fatphobia about myself and what the world has ingrained in us.

Don't you dare alter your inner freak.

If you feel good about yourself on the inside, that's gonna show to people. I don't think it's all about makeup and hair and how you dress. I think it's more of an inner thing and how you feel about yourself and that's ultimately what will shine through no matter what.

I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

I used to be insecure about my butt, but I no longer think of clothes as something to make me look skinnier.

I've become bored of being insecure, ashamed, scared... no one should feel like that about themselves, especially when there is so much good life to live.

I've just grown as a person, accepting my flaws as well. Before I was very insecure and I used to just hide, and now I just accept that I'm an imperfect human.

I used to be very insecure about my curly hair, because I lived in a country where everybody had blonde straight hair.

You know when I was 20 and 30, they were insecurities. Now they're just a new normal. I'm 60 years old, so my expectations of who I am and how I look and how I show up in the world had to shift. Not because I couldn't help it, or not because I did anything wrong, but because I had to get into the natural flow of my being as a woman.

I think once I kind of got to a place of self-acceptance, looking past all the insecurities that I have, I've really grown so much as a person.

The way I approach my insecurities is by making sure I'm the first person laughing at myself.

I still have very normal insecurities, but I've always been made to feel like a body is a body, and it's not supposed to look like what you see in the media.

The more successful I become, the more I want to remain like me, with my defects and insecurities.

I think everybody goes through insecurities when they're younger, and everybody has to grow into their body.

No amount of gym time will make you feel beautiful if you don't feel it on the inside.

There's nothing wrong with showing sexuality. If you have that inside, it's just an expression of who you are. If you want to share that with people, that's amazing. I love that.

What's it like to figure out you're gay and then begin the process of coming out? Well, for most of my life, I felt doomed. I could imagine no path that would allow me to realize my authentic self. I felt the need to lie, even to myself, insisting: I am straight.

I understand that it's hard seeing gorgeous girls on Instagram and wanting a body like theirs, but I think we need to be happier in our own bodies and understand that we're gorgeous just the way we are.

I'm learning to believe that my epilepsy doesn't disbar me from being considered attractive, so if I think I look palatable in A&E I'll damn well Instagram it.