Quotes About Self-acceptance

If I could change a single thing about my life,' she said gently, 'I would not have been so unhappy when I was young.

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

Don't sulk. For someone with all the grace and coordination of a pregnant wildebeest, you did great.

No. I wanted to tell you that I was proud of you." Clary slewed around to look at her mother. "You were?" Jocelyn nodded. "Of course I was. The way you stood up in front of the Clave like that. The way you showed them what you could do. You made them look at you and see the person they loved most in the world, didn't you?" "Yeah," Clary said. "How did you know?" "Because I heard them all calling out different names," Jocelyn said softly. "But I still saw you.

You are the flame that cannot be put out. You are the star that cannot be lost. You are who you always have been, and that is enough and more than enough. Anyone who looks at you and sees darkness is blind.

Right, because I'm flat-chested and a midget.

Sophie said to me once that she was glad she had been scarred. She said that whoever loved her now would love her true self, and not her pretty face. This is your true self, Tessa. This power is who you are. Whoever loves you now--and you must also love yourself--will love the truth of you.

At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland." "Not necissarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.

You choose to be yourself, your best self. You can be descended from gods and monsters. You can take the light they left you and be a lamp shining out all their light made new. You can battle the darkness. You can choose always to fight and hope. That is what it means to have a great heart. Don't be afraid of being yourself.

What would it be like to care so little about what other people thought of you?

Part of the rediscovery process is figuring out what you think about the person looking back at you in the mirror.

How could I pretend to be someone else when I was already failing at being the person I already was?

And it occurred to me that the reason she makes it work, probably, is because she's so comfortable with herself. And you know, that's not such a bad notion, in the whole life-lesson business. Being comfortable with yourself. Because if you're not okay with who you are, why should anyone else be?

Being comfortable with yourself. Because if you're not okay with who you are, why should anyone else be?

The second revelation occurred when her unconscious released the idea, or the false belief, that her mother would love her only if she were totally perfect. Of course, that wasn't true. Her mother was incapable of loving her, and being perfect wouldn't alter that fact. That insight helped to free Madeline from trying so hard to please her mother.

I now like who I am, and I think all I went through was for a purpose. I think it was God's plan to make me the person I've become.

It's a choice between getting the crap beaten out of you for being exactly what you are, or avoiding the beating by selling out and pretending you're not, which is like pretending there's something wrong with what you are. I'm not sure which is worse.

Everything in the world is easier to clean up after than your own actual damn life.

Whatever you think your shortcomings are…you can't just lock yourself in the house so no one can notice or comment. We all have to take ourselves out into the world, flaws and all. And find a way to make the adjustment.

I have no idea if how I feel is what other people would call okay. I'm just the way I've always been.

We all have to take ourselves out into the world, flaws and all. And find a way to make the adjustment.

He was different. He didn't waste his time with crap like that. He had living to do. He knew who he was and he didn't have anything to prove to anybody. He had no problem saying he made a mistake, or he didn't know. That's a sign of confidence in a person. People think it's the other way around. But it's only people who don't have their acts together who work so hard to make you think they do.

it's silly to get mad at someone for letting you down when they're just being who they are. She said it's like getting mad at your dog for not being a cat.

Funny how we get so adjusted to exactly what we should see on every human body we encounter.