Quotes About Self-acceptance

You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.

I don't aspire to be a good man. I aspire to be a whole man.

A man who trims himself to suit everybody will soon whittle himself away.

If a person lacks self- acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others can't live with him.

The happy man is he who knows his limitations, yet bows to no false gods.

I man don't come red, I come Black

I have never loved a man as much as I have loved myself

It's always nerve-racking to take off your clothes on film. But doing it with a woman felt safer than with a man. You know you can say, 'Don't grab me there: That's where my cellulite is'!

I have nothing to complain about.. except maybe people wondering if a queen like me can be butch-it-up enough to play a convincing straight man.

Until he reached thirty, Randy felt bad about the fact that he was not socially deft. Now he doesn't give a damn. Pretty soon he'll probably start being proud of it.

So long as you're still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

si te vieras como Dios te ve, sonreirías mucho.

In that realm you will know at last the Good News: that your "devil" does not exist, that you are who you always thought you were—goodness and love. Your idea that you might be something else has come from an insane outer world, causing you to act insanely. An outer world of judgment and condemnation. Others have judged you, and from their judgments you have judged yourself.

Guilt is important. It tells us when we've done wrong. There is no such thing as "wrong." There is only that which does not serve you; does not speak the truth about Who You Are, and Who You Choose to Be. Guilt is the feeling that keeps you stuck in who you are not.

Guilt is often used by you in your attempt to feel bad about something you feel good about—and thus reconcile yourself with God…who you think does not want you to feel good about anything!

Noelle: But I look like a freak now. Craig: I told you, Noelle, everybody has problems. Some people just hide their crap better than others. But people aren't going to look at you and run away. They're going to look at you and think that they can talk to you, and that you'll understand, and that you're brave, and that you're strong. And you are. You're brave and strong. p.366-367

Someday someone is going to find this pelvis sexy or I'll never have children.

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

FELIX. I can't stand it, Oscar. I hate me. Oh, boy, do I hate me. OSCAR. You don't hate you. You love you. You think no one has problems like you. FELIX. Don't give me that analyst jazz. I happen to know I hate my guts. OSCAR. Come on, Felix; I've never seen anyone so in love. FELIX. (Hurt) I thought you were my friend. OSCAR. That's why I can talk to you like this. Because I love you almost as much as you do.

Do you know how you get over it?" Rasputin looked at his interlocutor like a wrestler about to break a folding chair in half. "You don't shower or shave for a month, until you smell like a sewer. Then you walk around for two weeks wearing a dress and a goalie mask with a dildo strapped to the front. That's what I did. And I will never be afraid of public humiliation again." "You

In his book The Sensation of Being Somebody, Maurice Wagner wrote: Try as we might by our appearance, performance or social status to find self-verification for a sense of being somebody, we always come short of satisfaction. Whatever pinnacle of self-identity we achieve soon crumbles

If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.

And I had no regrets about the way I turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not about the destination.

It's important to remember that none of us is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. All we can do is try to be the best version of ourselves as we move forward. In this case, if he asks, you can tell the truth, or you can lie. I suppose it comes down to the kind of person you want to see when you look in the mirror.