Quotes About Self-acceptance

You can't be anything but who you are. I wouldn't love you the same if you stopped being you. How do I change enough to accept that ruthless streak in you.

I don't mind you in my head. I refuse to be embarrassed for thinking the truth. You have to know how good-looking you are. Fortunately for you, you seem to have brains and humor to go with your looks.

He preferred curves to supermodel thin. He didn't understand why women were so hard on themselves. Francesca was beautiful and he didn't want a single pound to go away.

Apparently, I was going to have to get used to the idea of being stared at and inspected. People were going to be interested and inquisitive, I decided, and I would just have to accept it as logical, if I was going to function in the world at all.

She knew it should bother her more, being evil and all, but after she put on a little mascara and some lipstick and poured herself another cup of blood-laced coffee, she found that she was okay with it.

God is willing to forgive you the sin that you carry for being a child of man, but you must forgive yourself for having once been a child.

You've always been broken, love, it's the crux of your character.

The name, his true name, was weaker and more flawed than he would have liked, and he hated himself for that, but there was also much to admire within it, and the more he thought about it, the more he was able to accept the true nature of his self. He was not the best person in the world, but neither was he the worst.

Mother Florence had once told her that jealousy was the worst of all faults because it prevented a person from being who they were born to be.

Now why [...] should I worry about what people say when my own father call me a whore?

Love is an uphill climb, but once you know yourself and like yourself just as you are, it's all downhill from there.

Be emotionally authentic. Close the gap between who you think you should be and who you really are, she said. If you're honest about your feelings, you're in harmony. If you're dishonest about them, you're in chaos. -Mary T. Browne

Grace, personality, and intelligence are the things you love about yourself on the inside--and you can love them about yourself on the outside, too.

So you're giving up? That's it? Okay, okay. We'll leave you alone, Quasimodo. We just thought, maybe you're made up of something much stronger.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself or more correctly being loved in spite of yourself.

The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or moreover, loved in spite of ourselves.

The greatest happiness in life is the conviction that we are loved--loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake—let us say rather, loved in spite of one's self.

La suprema felicità della vita è la constatazione d'essere amato, e amato per se stesso; anzi diciamo meglio, malgrado se stesso.

Najve?a sre?a života je ube?enje da smo voljeni zbog nas samih, ili još bolje, uprkos nas samih.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved--loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

That's one of my major themes in Firefly Lane—that we need to accept that we are good enough, that all we can do is our best.

Who you mom is and how she lives her life isn't a reflection of you. You can make your own choices. And there's nothing for you to be ashamed of. But you'll have to dream big, Tully.

But when you grow comfortable hiding within a protective shell, it's harder than one might expect to stand up and say, "Actually, folks, this is who I am.