Quotes About Self-acceptance

Me and my friends, we wear jeans and no make-up. And people still love us.

I've always been proud of my body, my Jewish nose and all of that. Hollywood's Hollywood, but that's not going to change.

I'll tell you now that I hate myself for many reasons, but being Jewish is not one of them.

Let's face it I am not Joan Collins or Boy George.

Joan of Arc' is about not feeling scared to call yourself beautiful. Why shouldn't you!?

I always loved being fat, obviously. I'm Fat Joe.

I don't see myself as anything special. I'm just Johnny Gargano. I always have been, no matter what I'm about to do or where I am.

I've chosen to be this way because that's how I feel comfortable with myself. That's how I am. It's about joining up the dots between how you look and how you feel inside, and I think that's what I've done, and I think people do it differently.

Sure, I'm sensitive about my weight. I don't do fat jokes.

I'm a big guy, but I don't do 'I'm so fat that... ' jokes.

She figured if you weren't woman enough to carry your doughnuts with pride, you shouldn't be eating them.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew -

What each man is in Your eyes, thus he is, and no more.

The key to become who you want to be is to understand and accept who you already are.

The stratagems by which briefly you ameliorated, even seemingly untwisted what still twists within you — you loved their taste and lay there on your side nursing like a puppy.

Eldric wore his lazy lion's smile. He didn't mind what he was called. He was a sticks-and-stones sort of person.

It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God.

You know, I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving.

When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong with the fearful, the true mixed in with the façade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.

It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God

You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.

If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what "good" parenting means.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.