Quotes About Self-acceptance

When we learn to love and understand ourselves and have true compassion for ourselves, then we can truly love and understand another person.

When we're angry, our anger is our very self. To suppress or chase away our anger is to suppress or chase away ourselves. When we're joyful, we are joy. When we're angry, we are anger. When we love, we are love. When we hate, we are hatred. When anger is born, we can be aware that anger is an energy in us, and we can change that energy into another kind of energy. If we want to transform it, first we have to know how to accept it.

As long as we're rejecting ourselves and causing harm to our bodies and minds, there's no point in talking about loving and accepting others.

To be beautiful means to be yourself.You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower. If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life. True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.

An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble.

Happiness is possible only when you stop running and cherish the present moment and who you are. Who you are is already a wonder; you don't need to be someone else. You are a wonder of life.

To practice nonviolence, first of all we must learn to deal peacefully with ourselves.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to be yourself.

Any peace talks should begin with making peace with ourselves. First we need to recognize our anger, embrace it, and make peace with it. You don't fight your anger, because your anger is you. Your anger is the wounded child in you. Why should you fight your anger? The method is entirely nonviolent: awareness, mindfulness, and tenderly holding your anger within you. Like this, your anger will transform naturally.

I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions. There's no way I can be tossed around mindlessly like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves. The

The third door is aimlessness. We already are what we want to become. We don't have to become someone else.

Home is inside us. Going home requires only sitting down and being with yourself, accepting the situation as it is. Yes, it might be a mess in there, but we accept it because we know we have left home for a long time. So now we're home. With our in-breath and our out-breath, our mind- ful breathing, we begin to tidy up our homes.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

I was feeling really, really good about myself and then I was papped and this picture went online and I remember seeing a comment saying she needs to lose weight' and I was like are you joking?'

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

I have lived almost seven decades. So I've had my hair journey where I wasn't comfortable with my hair.

I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey.

Whether you're successful or not, you'll never actually feel the joys of accomplishment unless you love yourself. Success can be very difficult to deal with. You have to stay in the center. If you let your success define you, then you're really just setting yourself up for failure.

I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.

I always tell friends you can't judge your success by someone else's. You can't be afraid to fail.

If I'm being forced to do something I don't want to do, my real self comes out. But whether or not I'm aware of it, no matter what happens, I'm always going to have a fake self, and I'm not going to judge my fake self.

It's not for other people to judge me.

I don't care how people judge me.

The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'