Quotes About Self-acceptance

I don't like my voice. I don't like the way I look. I don't like the way I move. I don't like the way I act. I mean, period. So, you know, I don't like myself.

They say you should not suffer through the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.

There is always a certain peace in being what one is, in being that completely. The condemned man has that joy.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.

In the world to come they will not ask me, "Why were you not Moses?" They will ask me, "Why were you not Zusya?"

I was raised to sense what someone wanted me to be and be that kind of person. It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.

A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes, but to get into accord with them: they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction as he is satisfied in himself.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

What you think about yourself is much more important than what others think of you.

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware, I sit content, And if each and all be aware, I sit content.

I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect 'cause I like me.... I think I'm kind of cool.

Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.

I am what I am, so take me as I am!

I is who I is.

People remain what they are, even when their faces fall to pieces.

You have to deal with the fact that your life is your life.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Contentment, and indeed usefulness, comes as the infallible result of great acceptances, great humilities-of not trying to conform to some dramatized version of ourselves.

All the discontented people I know are trying to be something they are not, to do something they cannot do.

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.