Quotes About Self-acceptance

The Marine Corps forced me to come home from Afghanistan. It's up to me to allow myself to come home.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Remember for just one minute of the day, it would be best to try looking upon yourself more as God does, for She knows your true royal nature.

No woman should say, "I am but a woman!" But a woman! What more can you ask to be?

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

If you get frustrated and unhappy with yourself, then there is going to be a problem. You have to laugh at yourself and laugh at your mechanism that is out of gear.

First of all, learn to laugh at yourself. That's the best way to enjoy yourself, you know, and not to spend much time in the mirror, that's another way.

To respect people is one thing; to raise them up on a pedestal merely shows how deep a hole I've dug for myself.... True humility lies in forgiving myself for being so perplexingly human, and forgiving others for pretending they're any less human than I.

You worry about who you are too much. Just be yourself, and you'll find out eventually.

To fulfill your purpose, you must first know and celebrate your identity!

The moment you start to embrace how you have been formed and fashioned is the moment you step into the very purpose for which you were created.

Are you prepared to brave the negative reactions, comments, criticisms, and complaints that may arise from owning your authentic self? Can you handle it? Some people can't. They live without expressing the authenticity of what abides deep within them because the approval of others is more important to them than self-approval.

Be You, they will adjust

I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

The first step toward being loved is learning to love what you see when you look in the mirror.

They don't matter. I thought I had to prove something, and I did, to myself. There's nothing left for me to prove. I can move on with my life.

She wants to leap up and do a handstand, or get someone to race her fast and far to wreck them both: anything that will turn her body back into something that's about what it can do, not all about how it looks.

I live inside my own skin. Anything that happens outside it doesn't change who I am. This isn't something I'm proud of; as far as I'm concerned, it's a bare minimum baseline requirement for calling yourself an adult human being, somewhere around the level of knowing how to do your own washing or change a toilet roll. All those idiots on the websites, begging for other people to pull their sagging puppet-strings, turn them real: they make me want to spit.

our emotional problems are seen as temporary and superficial. The emphasis is on what is right with us,

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am.

But this revolutionary act of treating ourselves tenderly can begin to undo the aversive messages of a lifetime.

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.