Quotes About Self-acceptance

My body is the way it is - it's never going to be a body like Kim Kardashian or Angelina Jolie. We're all different, and we're all unique.

I think we women need to be kinder to ourselves. That we are just the way we are is enough.

Stress eating is huge - I did a lot during lockdown, and I think that's half the battle. We give ourselves such a hard time, our internal voice is so aggressive and we need to start being kinder to ourselves.

I have days of self-doubt, but I think the kindest thing I can do to myself is accept where my body is at.

I let people know that it was all right to do the kinds of things I did.

The kitchen may not get cleaned, and I have to accept that. I do the important things.

I like a hem below my knee even though I was blessed with fairly good gams.

I am not crazy about my knees.

When people see me face-to-face they know immediately that I've not gone under the knife and they are the ones who matter.

I'm human. I have bad games, I have bad moments, but that's me. I cannot stay on the floor, knocked out. I have to keep going.

If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

In the States I might be an Asian face, look different from everyone else in TV and in music, but in Korea I look like everybody else, in Asia I look like everybody else.

My full name's Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn't want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person.

I just am who I am. And then when people label me eccentric or different, I'm kind of astonished because I think, 'This is completely normal. This is just how I am, it's how I've always been.'

People can label me whatever they like. I don't really care any more.

It's hard for me to label myself or characterize myself.

You shouldn't feel you have to label yourself for someone else to understand you. You should be able to feel what you want to feel and that's okay.

I've never, ever labeled myself.

For me, I've never really thought of myself as labeled as a shooter or whatever. People can say whatever they want.

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

I don't put labels on myself.

When I turned fifty, a friend told me that one of the great joys of aging is no longer needing outside validation.

And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. Even for me.

Philosophers of all times have stressed the pivotal significance of being ourselves and the despair attendant on feeling barred from its approximation... "What other significance can our existence have than to be ourselves fully and completely?