Quotes About Self-acceptance

Accept yourself exactly as you are. Because everything is in perfect order whether you believe it or not.

It very difficult for my heart to accept what my mind knows, sometimes I am just fighting with myself.

James Hilton ( Cowboy)

In your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one can take that." Enjoy being you.

I don't speak much at all, I am not the life of the party and "I am not anxious to be the loudest voice or the most popular. I'm just Me. And I'm pretty fine with that.

I have nothing to prove to anyone, because the only one I have to prove anything to is myself.

If you cannot get rid of the skeleton in the closet- you may as well take it out and make it dance.

If you want to give up what weighs you down. "Do what is right, "Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.

The way I look at it, love does not necessarily make for a happy ending any more than winning does. What makes for a happy ending is what Addie said all along: freedom. The freedom to be who you are without anybody calling you names. —Bobby Goodspeed

I had thoroughly been a girl so long by then that I'd grown to like it, got used to it, got used to not having to lift things, and have folks make excuses for me on account of me not being strong enough, or fast enough, or powerful enough like a boy, on account of my size. But that's the thing. You can play one part in life, but you can't be that thing. You just playing it. You're not real.

A body can't prosper if a person don't know who they are. That makes you poor as a pea, not knowing who you are inside. That's worse than being anything in the world on the outside.

A body can't prosper if a person don't know who they are. That makes you poor as a pea, not knowing who you are inside. That's worse than being anything in the world on the outside.

It occurred to me then that you is everything you are in this life at every moment. And that includes loving somebody. If you can't be your own self, how can you love somebody? How can you be free?

Well, I don't know. Mostly I just suck up what life throws my way, stomp on it, and then keep going. I don't dwell much on what I am or how I got this way. It just is. I just am. I'm Max, and whatever form I take, it's good enough for me.

Mostly I just suck up what life throws my way, stomp on it, and then keep going. I don't dwell much on what I am or how I got this way. It just is. I just am. I'm Max, and whatever form I take, it's good enough for me.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself

Don't worry, I didn't forget I'm a loser, Loser," I said as I zoomed down the hall. "DID YOU JUST CALL ME A LOSER?" Bear roared back.

I think that dwelling on other people's perception of you is the road to complete madness, unfortunately. I try and resist that.

I worked with someone who told me they'd never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

Scarcely anyone ever wants to be anybody else. However handicapped or unhappy he feels himself, he would not change places with other more fortunate mortals.

One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control.

I spent so long trying to be other people, and it made me really deeply unhappy.

The security comes, as an actor, in knowing that you're not in control. If you try to control your career, or how people perceive you, you'll make yourself unhappy, because life doesn't work like that. So much is luck. It's much better to let yourself off, to think, 'There's nothing I can do.'

As long as I can remember, I saw myself as black. I was socially conditioned to discard that. It was an all-white town. I was very unhappy. I felt like I was constantly self-sabotaging in order to conform to religion, culture dynamics. I was censoring myself. I was shutting down inside.