Quotes About Self-acceptance

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself.

Therefore hold this fact of not being the object of your own disapproval

Recognizing your own self as the enemy186

This new Eva, the free Eva, was tired of being rattled by life. How long had she lived being rattled by life. How long had she lived being too terrified to show her real self? There was power in showing the messiness of her life and what it took to hold it together.

But what fully realized person doesn't? No one expects men to be flaw-free. Women are expected to absorb traumas both subtle and loud and move on. Shoulder the weight of the world. But when the world fucks with us, the worst thing we can do is bury it. Embracing it makes us strong enough to fuck the world right back.

I just want to sleep with a clear conscience and wake up with the ability to look at myself in the mirror. I also want my life to be my own. Even if it's a shitty goddamn life, it's still mine.

I am somebody who... - I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I need that freedom, that ability to make mistakes out there. Because there's a fine line between making a mistake or being brilliant.

If you want to condemn yourself for the mistakes you've made, let's be fair, that means you've got to congratulate yourself for all the good things you've done. It's okay to say, "God, I wish I'd done this; yeah, but I did do that." Then it kind of balances out.

she said she didn't think he should be Trevor, but rather just himself.

'The Naked Civil Servant' was as important for me as 'Easy Rider' was for Jack Nicholson. No question.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

I'm just going to be myself; there's no reason for me to try and go out there and put a certain facade on or emphasize, 'Hey, I'm this. You need to believe it.' I just want to be the best that I can be, and if people like me, that's great, and if they don't, they don't.

When you play for ticket-holders, you are already validated. I have no sense that I need to be accepted. I'm already accepted.

I have no time for being embarrassed.

Don't change for nobody.

Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.

I didn't have to listen to nobody or look how anybody wanted me to look. I just wanted to be myself and look however I want.

You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.

If people don't think I can fall into what the norm is, that's their problem and not mine. I'm not the norm; I'm not deluded.

I still feel insecure all the time. I feel like it's just a part of being a human being... I just learned normal is very boring.

I never wanted to play a character that hated herself. I wanted people to know that those aren't the only roles for people like me, normal girls.

I never thought I was normal, never tried to be normal.

But I think that I'm just a normal girl, you know.