Quotes About Self-acceptance

My darling," she said at last, "are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?" "I don't mind at all," I said. "It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you." Roald Dahl, The Witches

You can't hate your best friend for taking opportunities he'd been given. That would be the worst sort of hate, wouldn't it? Because it would mean you hate yourself, too.

I bet things would be easier for you if you either realized you're not that weird or decided that being weird isn't bad.

Puteam continua sa fiu vechea Lee, cea buna si incompetenta, Lee cea draguta si plina de fisuri, un Labrador flocos si auriu, care nu poate sta departe de nicio balta si se tot intoarce acasa cu blana uda si mirosind neplacut.

his unguarded face is startlingly handsome; the truth is that I still can't believe a hot, smart, kind man loves me back.

Maybe life isn't about the absence of embarrassment, it's about the mastery of embarrassment.

She did not look her best: so thin, so large-nosed, with that pink-and-white checked duster tied round her head. She felt her disadvantage. But she had had a good deal of suffering and sorrow, she did not mind any more.

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.

I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.

I'm not supposed to need fixing; I'm the strong one—the lookout.

It's a free country," I said. "Granny babes." That night up in my room I pulled Ma's flying leg out from behind the dresser and saw, for the first time, that it was beautiful. I hung it above my bed.

I refuse putting from me the best that I am.

WHAT am I, after all, but a child, pleas'd with the sound of my own name? repeating it over and over; I stand apart to hear—it never tires me. To you, your name also; Did you think there was nothing but two or three pronunciations in the sound of your name?

I exist as I am, that is enough, If no other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content.

I exist as I am, that is enough, If not other in the world be aware I sit content, And if each and all be aware I sit content.

Micsoda érzés: ma vagy bármelyik napon azt érezni, hogy úgy, ahogy vagyok, kielégítÅ' vagyok!

I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood

Yes, she is the fruit that will Sustain me and yes, she brings A rain that I know can chill But it is a rain so sweet and sings A song my soul insists That I follow, if I would exist As more than I have ever, ever been If my mother calls it evil, then I embrace the sin

If I'm going to be pushed off the sidewalk, I might as well step on off. You know what I mean? Stop pretending something good was waiting around the corner and be what everybody expected me to be, which was another throwaway dude. —Lil J

I feel like my head is finally the right size. I feel like it finally fits around my mind.

I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.

Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.

You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being -- not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money -- but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.