Quotes About Self-acceptance

Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.

I'm my own person, and I want people to know me for who I am.

you can't embrace— you can't empower—the person you want to be in your future until you've thoroughly embraced the person you've been in your past.

If you are not going to pretend you are problem-free, at least show everyone you are deeply ashamed. 5. If you are not going to either pretend to be perfect or act ashamed, don't show up.

It is, therefore, a very great thing to be little, which is to say: to be ourselves. And when we are truly ourselves we lose most of the futile self-consciousness that keeps us constantly comparing ourselves with others in order to see how big we are.

Short is short and Tall is Tall You are what you are That is All!

Think as I think said the man, or you are abominable. You are a toad. And after I had thought on it, I said I will then, be a toad.

You think you can't fix anything until you fix yourselves. Well, let me be the first to tell you, you will never fix yourself. p.32

Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful. (79)

Young Bran, striving to please and yearning for the approving touch of a father's hand, only ever saw that hand raised in anger. Thus, he learned at an early age that since he could never please his father, he might as well please himself.

Before you can successfully make friends with others, first you have to become your own friend.

Even though your thinking might not be right for others, just so long as it's right for you then that's all what matters.

A good self-esteem level is mostly dependant on how we value ourselves without any bias.

If you knew the power within yourself to be truly happy, to be truly whole, then you would never ask another to become the image you desire for yourself, in order to be happy and whole.

There are no prizes for defying yourself.

You must wake up to the truth that whoever you are, that whatever you have or think you do not have, you are perfect in the here and now. Unless you can accept yourself, you will never be satisfied with anything, because it all begins with yourself.

If you like who you are then losing yourself isn't a choice! But if you don't like yourself, get lost.

Base your self-esteem on truth.

Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.

Being joyous or happy is not something you should feel guilty about.

The foundation of all personal development, actually, is self-acceptance and self-love.

If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU.

Even if we all want you here, you don't belong until you decide you do.