Quotes About Self-acceptance

If you're bullied your entire life you want to be able to just scream to the world 'well that's who I am!'

That you could fix me? What's more, that I could fix you? Well, Sorry, pet, I don't want to be fixed. - Caleb

I was anorexic. I was in hell. Now I eat what I want, and I'm still a model. So you see, it works.

I obviously don't feel under pressure to look young, because I have had no Botox or surgery. I don't judge people who choose to have it, but I don't want to erase who I am.

I remember thinking, in Kansas my name will be Evett - which is my middle name. I didn't want to explain to anyone how to say Em-a-yat-zee.

I don't think I've ever changed. I am only one person, it's just me. I'm confident and I'm quite happy with who I am, but it's my life and I'll be what I want.

I don't need my sexuality celebrated, and I certainly don't need it to be criticized. I didn't necessarily want it to be observed, but here we are.

We were never what people could be. We were only what we were. Remember us

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

I want to be age appropriate. I don't want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.

You have to be yourself. Be very honest about who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great. If they don't, that's their problem.

a gentleman will walk but never run.. it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.. be yourself no matter what they say..

You have to be yourself. Stay true to who and what you are. And if people still like you, that's great! If they don't, that's their problem.

You have to be yourself. Be very honest about who and what you are. And if people still like or love you, that's great. If they don't, that's their problem.

You had to face the fear to be worthy of acceptance.

Perhaps you are what everyone says you are," Jadawyn said, then grinned. "But I wouldn't want you to be any other way.

This is what I'm really like, what I've always been like. I'm just lucky because I've found a way around the injustice, the fucking unbelievable injustice of nature. You think the decaying body was me? You think the sagging tits, the slab shanks, the dried up old cunt, was me. No. This is me. And it's the same for every god-damned ancient bint in the world, whatever nature's done to them. Just remember that.

His own madness was the last thing he feared.

It's not about finding ways to avoid God's judgment and feeling like a failure if you don't do everything perfectly. It's about fully experiencing God's love and letting it perfect you. It's not about being somebody you are not. It's about becoming who you really are.

You must know that you are worth much to me whether you accomplish anything or not. Even if you are rejected in the world's eyes, you are valuable to me.

He considered the hard times in his life. All the things he had been afraid of. All those years wasted, he told himself, because I was terrified of being different. That's why all us fifty-four-year-olds end up looking so much alike. All of us are terrified of being different.

you have the right to be satisfied with what you have and with what you are right now.

We don't want to eliminate the ego completely. Otherwise we'd be wandering around the house each morning, drinking coffee for hours, saying, 'Who the hell am I?' We need the ego to sustain a sense of identity.

But it's a little like that children's book, THE VELVETEEN RABBIT, but in reverse: if you're not loved for who you are, you cease to be real. Definitely for the other person, and maybe for yourself, too.