Quotes About Self-acceptance

It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it's OK.

It takes hard work to say, "This is how I am," in a calm voice, without anxiously addressing how you should be.

I used to admire people who could hang with anything. Now the women I admire the most are women who never pretend to be different than they are. Women like that express their anger. They admit when they're down. They don't beat themselves up over their bad moods. They allow themselves to be grumpy sometimes. They grant themselves the right to be grouchy, or to say nothing, or to decline your offer without a lengthy explanation.

I used to be more like that woman, having fun with whatever task was in front of me instead of freaking out about how I looked to other people. I need to figure out how to get back there. My life has turned out great. Sow why am I comparing myself to perfectly styled, enviable, energetic professional in my head?...I keep saying to myself: "This is all wrong You are all wrong."..."You should be a shiny, infallible adult by now. Why are you still such a mess?

You will find love. Believe me. But in order to find it, I think you have to prepare yourself for a life alone and be at peace with that. It's a real tightrope walk. I get it. But you won't tell tepid to fuck off if you don't believe in your heart that you will rock it out one way or another.

I feel by posing for Playboy I've discovered my own sexuality and beauty, and I feel more confident than ever.

When is it okay to decide that you don't need to do your best? That you have built enough character for one lifetime?

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. E.E. Cummings

Just being yourself never worked, but if you made yourself up, you got to be exactly who you knew yourself to be.

You can't tell people what to be, I'm afraid," said Rosie. "You can only love and support who they already are. But

wish for my child, for all our children, a world where they can be who they are and become their most loved, blessed, appreciated selves.

Children learn many wonderful things in kindergarten. How to line up for lunch. How to use inside voices. How to not push people. Important life skills for sure. I use them every day myself. But they learn other things too: you have to conform, or people might not like you; you have to be the same because different doesn't feel good. At home, Claude's loved no matter what. At school, it sometimes feels the opposite: you are not loved no matter what.

Lot of clinics in Bangkok do surgery but mostly for foreigner. Many kathoey here let be. Which parts not what matter. Is soul, how move, how dress, how love, how be. Just like Poppy, I am female soul so do not matter to me or Choochai or sons or daughters or anyone what is under pants. Makes sense?

Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.

I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable.

Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn't sick; I was strong.

I dare reveal my private woe, The secret blots of my imperfect heart, Nor strive to shrink or swell mine own desert, Nor beautify nor hide. For this I know, That even as I am, thou also art.

I love being healthy. I get a lot of sleep. I'm a girl who eats. And I feel beautiful no matter how I look. I have my family to thank for that.

I am an unconventional beauty. I grew up in a high school where if you didn't have a nose job and money and if you weren't thin, you weren't cool, popular, beautiful. I was always told that I wasn't pretty enough to be on television.

I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.

At some point you have to love in order to be lovable.

That's what therapy is for," Luc said. "No one's life is perfect. At some point you have to grow up and take responsibility for who you are and what you want.

When you learn to nurture and love yourself as you would another When you give yourself that attention Things change very fast Things move in you

But C. S. Lewis made the point that we hate sin but love the sinner all the time — in our own lives. In other words, when we're judging ourselves, we always love the sinner despite our sin. We accept ourselves, even though we might not always like our behavior.