Quotes About Self-acceptance

I've had a mental illness for nearly half my life, and I can no longer imagine myself without it. It seems less like something that happened to me than like part of who I am; some days, it is the thing about me, but it is always at least a thing about me.

There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

I have what I like to call a 'chinneck.' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck.

I don't have a brilliant body at all. I've got very broad shoulders. I've got very big feet. I've also got a very muscular neck.

I never want to be anything more than I am; what I don't have, I don't need.

I just feel not many people hear that you should feel good inside and feel happy within your soul, instead of needing to look a certain way, so I always try and talk to people about that.

Your closet needs to be a place of joy and celebration of who are you now - not who you were.

We all are scared. First of all, as a culture, we're constantly told that if you start to express yourself or express your needs, you're needy. You're too emotional. And they put all these negative connotations on it. That has started since we were kids, especially for men.

I've learned to ignore the negative people and just be a living example of confidence and self-love.

I don't really look at myself as a role model. And I just am the way I am and if people want to look up to me, they do. By no means do I like to give a negative image either.

I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.

I don't want to bring negative energy to myself, and if people feel one way about me, I don't want that changing how I feel or what I believe.

Once I got done with my career, I knew in my soul that I don't have any negative thoughts about myself.

You have to stop registering size with negativity. The biggest body can be absolutely beautiful.

I don't consider myself a nerd.

I'm just myself, so I don't know that I think of myself as a nerd icon.

If you're a nerd, just be a nerd. That's way better than a nerd who's trying to be a hipster. And if you are going to tell jokes, don't direct them at other people. Not only is it not funny, but it's also mean.

Mostly, nothing's really changed. I'm still the dorky nerd that I always was.

We just have to accept who we are, and I'm a film nerd, for better or worse.

I'm definitely not a nerd, not a nerd at all.

I would say I am unapologetically nerdy. I was always a little awkward.

And I also am very nervous about implants. You know, I'm just nervous about all that. So I could still do it. I could think about it. But I needed to adapt to myself.

I'll never forget the day I realized I wasn't quite the Ford model I thought I was.

I love to laugh and I will never take myself too seriously.