Quotes About Self-acceptance

Based means being yourself. Not being scared of what people think about you. Not being afraid to do what you wanna do. Being positive.

People like me for who I am, I don't wanna change that, if anything I just wanna hone my craft and get better at it.

Just getting older, you stop caring what other people think, but also, you know who you are, and you know what you want.

This is who I am. I'm not perfect. I don't want to try to be perfect.

I want to encourage people to be themselves and express themselves however they want.

I'm gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they're gonna like. It doesn't really matter.

I really wanted to be a model when I was little. I loved photography, and I loved being on camera. But I was short and chubby, so I couldn't. Anyway, being an artist is way more interesting than just being a model because it's about you and what you want to be. You're not being treated like a clothes hanger.

I always wanted to be tall, but I'm not, OK?

There is no shame in wanting to age naturally or wanting to 'age gracefully' with a little help from products or procedures.

I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green.

I think the obsession with wanting to change yourself is crazy over the top.

I think we make a common mistake of all wanting to look younger, and I think there is nothing more attractive, charming and endearing than when you meet a woman and you think she looks amazing for her age rather than 20 years younger because of this, that and everything else.

I let go of the notion of wanting someone to ignore the way I look in order to find me attractive, because really, what kind of relationship would that be? One where someone's only attracted to you because they're ignoring a fundamental part of you? No thanks.

I never planned to lose weight. Even when I was born the doctor credited me as an overweight child in the ward. At school too, I was awarded a prize for maximum weight. So it was never like, that being fat was in fashion and I suddenly decided to get it.

It's shameful to admit, but it's been a bit of a lifelong affair, and I do now feel I'm as good as it gets. I'm honourable, kind, friendly, warm, intelligent, generous, and I've got a good sense of humour.

I was cast as the lead in a Warner Bros TV pilot and was immediately told I needed to lose weight. I got a bit weird about food for the first time in my life, and I thought, 'You know, this just isn't the life for me.'

You don't have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. It will warp your values.

We need to make friends with ourselves. We are stuck with our self all day, so let's be kinder, gentler, more amusing company. Let's take our own hand and say, 'There, there, sister. You're doing a good job. I'm proud of how you're handling all this craziness down here. Don't give up. Carry on, warrior.'

If there's a theme to where I'm at in my life, it's that 'warts and all' is actually my superpower. Just like you, I'm messed up and I'm capable. I'm this and that.

I love my job; I love the world that it is. But I don't want someone who is just in love with that world. I want to be with someone who is in love with me, warts and all.

You either like or don't like people warts and all. You've got to look yourself in the mirror. I don't like all the aspects of what I do and am, or things I've done, but you've got to live with it.

I don't think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that's unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified. By the same token, if you need a stick to wash yourself, you're not healthy.

When I was a teenager I would look in the mirror and wish I could wash away my syndrome. I hated it because it caused so much pain in my life.

Why live in fear that he might find me disgusting someday, when I could make it happen right now?