Quotes About Self-acceptance

Julia arrived at "just do it" as a personal credo long before Nike snapped it up. Nothing anyone thought about her could stop her. Imagine a life in which you're never too anything for anything. Never too old to go back and get that degree. Never too uncoordinated to cut loose on the dance floor. Never too wrong-of-body to wear that swimsuit and throw yourself into the waves.

Don't waste time trying to change your anger into something that makes you likable; you will only wind up disliking yourself. Write your rage, paint it, film it, dance it, lyricize it, poeticize it. You don't have to be good, just honest.

Happiness is not a science, an art or an outcome. It can't be qualified, procured or consumed. It's not invented, but comes naturally made from mud, honeysuckle, pitted olives, and doting grand dads...it's what we are when we are utterly ourselves in unaffected ease.

You hated my rainbows, now you don't like my leather. Is there anything you like on me?

I lock eyes with my reflection and don't look away. The day you look away you start to lose yourself. I'm never going to lose myself. You are what you are. Deal with it or change.

You think you're going to chain me to a wall then stand here and tell me why it's okay that I am the way I am? That because of all the crap folks put me through when I was young it's all right that I turned out like this? Dude, I don't have a problem with how I turned out. I like me.

You are what you are. Find a way to live with it.

You are what you are. Deal with it or change.

It's why I laugh so much. If my face is going to stick, I'm going to like looking at it.

You're not pretty. Goddamn it, Dani. You're beautiful.

It's not my fault who I am. The only think that's my fault is what I choose to do

I don't convince nobody of nothing. You take me or leave me just the way I am! But I ain't changing for you or nobody else and I ain't faking either, and if you think breaking my bones one by one is going to accomplish a thing besides, like, breaking my bones, good luck with that!

There is a monster inside me. And she's beautiful.

I turned and stared into the mirror. The reflection of a stranger stared back. I touched my face in the reflection. No, she wasn't a stranger. She was a woman who'd stepped out of her comfort zone in order to survive, who'd become a fighter. I liked the woman I saw in the looking glass.

Why are you so pissed at me? It's not my fault who I am. The only thing that's my fault is what I choose to do with it.

I can't not misstep. I have feet.

What you need is some balance in your life: to know when to say no and when to say yes, how to ask for help as easily as you give it, when to let other people live with the consequences of their choices, how to be honest with yourself (always) and forthright and direct with other people (most of the time), and why it's important to give up striving to be perfect and accept your perfectly imperfect self.

Your mission: feel good about who you are, what you do, how you think, and how you look--without needing anybody's approval!

Embrace your weirdness. Some will adore you. Others won't. But who cares? Worry about loving yourself, not loving the idea of other people loving you.

It's not about how well I did. It's about how far I've come, and how far I still have to go. It's about being okay with not being the best, because there are a million and one things out there to try until I do find the thing that I'm good at and that makes me happy.

You were never a disaster. Ever. It seems to me that the more we try to dissect our pasts, the more we try to go back and relive them. Trust me, it's more important to pick up the pieces and move forward and live our lives the best way we can. I've never been a fan of leftovers.

Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability

In this life, many things happen in which we play a shameful part. Those of us who are strong forgive ourselves and go on. The weak wallow in their shame and allow it to devour them. There is no one of us without sin, child. There ought to be some comfort in that.

Disney will never make a movie about my life story, and that's a shame--I'd make a really cute animated creature.