Quotes About Self-acceptance

I should probably give up pretending I'm going to be somebody someday, he said, but a rich fantasy life is one of my best qualities. —Fantasy Life

Somebody who's really comfortable with who she is and doesn't care what other people think. I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves.

even found myself overlooking my own flaws, for the same reasons. I didn't need to try to be perfect or in control all the time. There really was no need to impress anyone.

I've become one of those horrible women who goes around saying things like, 'Now that I am old, I shall wear more purple.

You don't have to be perfect. Not for God, not for your community, not for anyone. All you have to be is human. All you have to be is you. So lay down when you need to, and then, eventually, it will be time for you to get up, have something to eat, and try again.

They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.

I don't allow anybody to change me. I still walk outta my house in rollers and I take walks. I do not care what people think.

I don't like defining myself. I just am.

I had some tough times...i did some bad shit...but i'm still the same girl i used to be

I Know not everyone will like me, but this is who I am So if you don't like it, Tough!

Never doubt yourself. Never change who you are. Don't care what people think and just go for it

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

Pretending to be cool is exhausting. Yelling

There is a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing you are worthy of happiness. So often we block our blessings because we don't, at our core, feel that we're enough. Even if you've accumulated a house full of nice things and the picture of your life fits inside a beautiful frame, if you have experienced trauma but haven't excavated it, the wounded parts of you will affect everything you've managed to build.

We don't begin our lives by asking: Am I enough? Am I worthy? Am I deserving or lovable?

The less confident we are in ourselves, the less we are in touch with ourselves and the world, the more we want to control.

if you are cursed with perfectionism, then you're absolutely sunk. This ideal is a yardstick which always gives you the opportunity to browbeat yourself, to berate yourself and others. Since this ideal is an impossibility, you can never live up to it. You are merely in love with this ideal, and there is no end to the self-torture, to the self-nagging, self-castigating. It hides under the mask of "self-improvement." It never works.

It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company.

You ain't a beauty, but hey, you're alright.

Dare to love every person, including yourself. Become the energy of love.

The importance of Liking Yourself is a notion that fell heavily out of favor during the coptic, anti-ego frenzy of the Acid Era—but nobody guessed, back then, that the experiment might churn up this kind of hangover: a whole subculture of frightened illiterates with no faith in anything.

He no longer cared much what others thought of him. There were few benefits in growing older, and this was one.

Perhaps I just wasn't scary enough. Maybe I should invest in some horns or fangs.

Why had I wasted all my time pretending to be someone I wasn't? I was tired, so very, very tired of standing on my own brakes. I felt...right. I felt free.