Quotes About Self-acceptance

Do you realize that if you had started building the Parthenon on the day you were born you would be all done in only one more year? Of course, you couldn't have done it alone, so never mind, you're fine just as you are. You are loved simply for being yourself.

Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose

It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.

How I feel about myself is more important than how I look. Feeling confident, being comfortable in your skin - that's what really makes you beautiful.

Hogyan vehetjük ennyire adottnak magunkat? Hogyan lehetséges, hogy sosem kérdÅ'jelezzük meg a testünket és a lényünket?

Being crasy doesn't mean to be broken...It is you and me amplified, Girl, Interrupted

Why I am opposed to antidepressants. Because I think depression has something to tell me. Because often depression is an appropriate reaction. Because I am terrified of changing the functioning of my brain in any way. Because I believe depression is me, and that without it I would not be me. Because I can't imagine my life without the time off I get from periodic depression. These are the typical idiotic reasons people give for not wanting to feel better. So in this respect, I am quite normal.

Be that which you really are; don't pretend to be what you are not." He

I have this demon who wants me to run away screaming if I am going to be flawed, fallible. It wants me to think I'm so good I must be perfect. Or nothing. I am, on the contrary, something: a being who gets tired, has shyness to fight, has more trouble than most facing people easily. If I get through this year, kicking my demon down when it comes up, I'll be able, piece by piece, to face the field of life, instead of running from it the minute it hurts.

I felt very happy. To think that I didn't have to torture myself sitting in a smoke-filled room with a painted party smile, watching my date get drunk

For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge

Seré una de las pocas poetisas en el mundo completamente feliz de ser mujer, no una de esas amargadas y frustradas, retorcidas imitadoras de hombres, que en su mayoría acaban destrozadas

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter – – – for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.… Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

Sandry: I am silly, now and then. My mother said I was, anyway. Daja: If you know, you can stop it. Sandry: Then you've never been silly or you'd know it just creeps up without any warning.

George looked at her for a long moment. Finally he replied, And why do you find it so hard to think someone might like you and want to do things for you?

Your place in life you can always change, whether you have the gift or not. But you cannot change what the gods have made you. The sooner you accept that, the happier you'll be.

And she told you something about yourself you really ought to know: that you're beautiful, and worth loving.

Have you ever noticed that when you try to deny some part of yourself, things fall out so you need that part more than any other?

Don't fight the body the gods gave you

She was right. After all, if she herself had wondered whether she was Indian enough -- she, who had always been to me a sort of epitome of Indian -- then who could be? Who could claim the sole right or way to an identity?

His face was neither handsome nor anything else. It just was.

Knowing you're worthless doesn't give you value any more than knowing you are a captive sets you free.

he loved me for who I was, not for who I could be

It's unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don't even give themselves a chance to see what they'll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I'll look like before I start cleaning the slates.