Quotes About Self-acceptance

Would that I could be a gay man. I would like myself better. But I am the most heterosexual of all my many acquaintances.

Shakespeare's Polonius said, "To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

103When we try to be something that we are not, we become the slave of a rigid, fixed mind, following a rule about how things have to be. The violence and the anger in us remain unnoticed, because we are caught in our pictures of how we should be.

Sometimes I just have to rock myself back and forth and say, "You've offended so many people at this point. Don't try to keep track now, girl.

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The Dark Side of the Light Chasers: Reclaiming Your Power, Creativity, Brilliance, and Dreams, by Debbie Ford—a wonderful book about owning and embracing all aspects of who we are, such as the overachiever, the

She didn't care so much whether the world would ever forgive her people; but she did hope that someday, somehow, she would be able to forgive herself.

She closed her eyes against the shame, the disgust. She tried to remind herself that this was just who she was—how she was—and to ratchet down at least a little bit the self-loathing. Hadn't they had fun last night? Of course they had. At least she presumed they had.

Being content is not a lack of ambition. It's being able to rest and relax and know your worth doesn't come from what others think of you or even what you think of you.

As children, very few of us have the capacity to fend off demeaning, negating comments, even the ones that are made without malice. Our work as adults is to make the choice to not pass those words on to our kids and to reject cruel or unthinking remarks about ourselves—to flick 'em off our shoulders like dandruff!

People have asked me if I had a miracle or a chance to change the way I look, I honestly know I would never do that.

I look at myself in the mirror and think I'm gorgeous.

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

I had to fight, a lot of years, to be really proud of the person I see in the mirror and really love this person.

Every girl/woman in the world has flaws. Instead of focusing on your flaws when you look in a mirror, focus on the parts of you that you love; try to do this every morning. You will ooze confidence all day long.

When I look in the mirror, I see someone who's happy with how he looks, because I was never one of the handsome Hollywood people. And I've had success as I've gotten older, because I'm able to play characters. I no longer get the girl, but I get the part.

I'm the one who has to look in the mirror, and after a while it begins to eat at you.

It's not fun to see myself in the mirror.

People are always judging you based on where you're from, where you went to school, how you look, how you talk. But at the end of the day, you're going to have to look into the mirror and accept who you are. It's all about being authentic.

I do not Google myself, I do not read comments, and I barely look myself in the eye when I look in the mirror.

I couldn't care less what anyone thinks about me. When I look in the mirror and see what's looking back at me, I'm incredibly happy. Nobody's opinion is going to change that.

It's really important to talk to yourself and look at yourself in the mirror and love who you are.

You have to be luxurious nude. It's difficult to move in the nude in front of a mirror. It's much easier to move when you're dressed. But if you can walk around in the nude easily in front of your man, if you can be luxurious in the nude, then you've really got it.

I used to hate looking in the mirror. I've grown up into myself and now I'm happy with the way I look.