Quotes About Self-acceptance

Meditating with a goal or in order to accomplish something is not giving the practice a fair shake.Instead let yourself off the self-improvement treadmill, and simply be with yourself in your natural state. The practice isn't about achieving something. It's about letting go.

If you've ever wished for a friend who would love you as you are, appreciate your genius, and make space for your foibles, welcome you when you're funny and shiny and when you're a complete mess—well, I can introduce you to this person. Rather, your meditation practice can. He or she has been there the whole time. You are the one you've been waiting for, as they say.

live accordingly to the truths within yorself

Dare to be as physically robust and varied as you always were.

She felt like a real bitch. But that was a good thing. Bitch was a good word. Women who were aggressive and strong were tagged as bitches. She should buy herself a T-shirt that read "Proud to be called a bitch.

I don't want them to change me in there. Turn me in some kind of monster that I'm not.

Gradually, I'm forced to accept who I am. A badly burned girl with no wings. With no fire. And no sister.

No sóc guapa. No sóc bella. Però estic tan radiant com el sol.

am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.

I don't want them to change me in there. Turn me into some kind of monster that I'm not.

I want to own this transition, not to simply swallow the shame of it entire. I will push for every little irony.

I think, This will be the last horrible thing I have to go through, until I meet someone else and the whole travesty begins again . I myself bear a sign that reads DON´T DATE ME, I CHAIN-SMOKE, I´M BITTER, AND I INCLUDE GRABBY TODDLER, and this has dramatically decreased my social life. I have resigned myself to a lifetime of jalapeño poppers and cheap wine and Frasier reruns.

Be kind to yourself, Michael," she said. "You're the one who has to live with you.

Wholeness returns simply by having the courage to re-become who the heck you were put on this earth to be.

I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.

I find it a very, very powerful thing to be yourself and not to try and be something else and to use that as your biggest shield and your biggest attack in the world - to just be you.

I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.

I don't want to be 45 competing with 20-year-olds, running to go get Botox. I want to be an expressive actor hired for the age that I am, portraying women who are my age: 40. I'm just hoping I can find some of those roles to play. Otherwise, I have to find something else.

I try to go with the flow, and I feel pretty comfortable with who I am. I feel courageous enough to go outside myself and try something new, like everything in life.

I've made mistakes, I've misspoke, I am sure I will again sometime, but that happens, that's part of being human in my book. I'm OK with that. I've never done it maliciously, ever.

'HEAVN' is about black girlhood, about Chicago, about the people we miss who have gone on to prepare a place for us somewhere else, about the city/world we aspire to live in. I hope this album encourages listeners to love themselves and love each other.

My son gave me the permission to accept my success.

I wanted my first song to have a good meaning to it and to help a lot of people just to be more confident about themselves.

I don't fight my ability to sing sad songs: it's what I am good at, so I must be built for that.