Quotes About Self-acceptance

Rather than relaxing and enjoying who we are and what we're doing, we are comparing ourselves with an ideal and trying to make up for the difference.

We yearn for an unquestioned experience of belonging, to feel at home with ourselves and others, at ease and fully accepted. But the trance of unworthiness keeps the sweetness of belonging out of reach.

The way out of our cage begins with accepting absolutely everything about ourselves and our lives, by embracing with wakefulness and care our moment-to-moment experience.

Whenever we reject a part of our being, we are confirming to ourselves our fundamental unworthiness.

REFLECTION Pause and let yourself sink into this moment, into presence, into your heart. Gently say to yourself, "There's nothing to do. This is enough . . . I am enough." Feel the fullness and peace of coming home.

I am larger and better than I thought. I did not think I held so much goodness. Walt Whitman

Although the trance of feeling separate and unworthy is an inherent part of our conditioning as humans, so too is our capacity to awaken

I want to accept myself completely,

acceptance and presence

some days i need to forgive myself over and over — twenty times, thirty times. i usually don't need a formal meditation to do so; i simply recognize that i'm judging or disliking myself and bring compassion to the pain i'm feeling. i consciously hold the intention to let go of blame and try to be more kind to myself.

For so many of us, feelings of deficiency are right around the corner. It doesn't take much—just hearing of someone else's accomplishments, being criticized, getting into an argument, making a mistake at work—to make us feel that we are not okay.

May I love and accept myself just as I am.

Never cry in front of these men. Never cry. Ever. It's only hair. Hair will grow back.

I let my soul be corrupted that day, although it would be years later before I accepted what I had done. I forgot who I was and what I should do and only thought about what I wanted and what I could do.

I needed her to say that it didn't make a difference, that I was myself, not my gnarled family tree.

I hope girls read what I say in interviews - they should just be themselves.

If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect.

I speak a little Italian and Spanish because of where I grew up. I also am well-versed in Angelino slang and corporate Euro-speak. I don't like gimmicks. The biggest gimmick of all is trying to fit in and be 'normal'. I will always be myself no matter what. Crazy is a compliment. Flashback.

I can't speak for other people, but for me, I feel like gone are the days that you need to come out of a closet. I never felt like I was in a closet. I never did. I always felt comfortable with who I am and the decisions I made.

I've been thinking a lot about my relationship to my own queerness, and I think the word pansexual speaks to me more than bi does.

When you grow up in the music industry, trying to be Britney Spears because that's what sells records and then you realize, 'All I have to do is be myself? I should have thought of that a long time ago,' it feels good to have success come from what's actually inside of you.

I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it... I don't want to look like Britney Spears, I just don't want to. She's hideous.

While I'm not thinking I'll be the next Britney Spears, as long as I'm happy with myself that's all I want.

You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.