Quotes About Self-acceptance

I guess people don't like me for getting as upset as I am sometimes when I lose, but that's me.

One of the things that comedy has given me over the years is a really good ability to laugh at myself and to not take things that don't matter too much too seriously. I feel that very little offends me anymore and I'm really grateful for that because I think I was a pretty uptight little kid.

I think that I was being much more uptight about those things before. I feel like I really don't have to prove anything at this point other than what I'm doing.

I never called myself an urban artist, but that's what I was classed as, and I almost tried to live up to the name instead of who I really was.

A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young - not her face.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough, ' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Work at not needing approval from anyone and you will be free to be who you really are.

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

In the end when you accept yourself for who you are and you work with what you've got, you couldn't be more beautiful because you're confident and everyone notices.

Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won't work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.

A lot of people work out to be skinny. That's so boring, and it seems like a depressing goal for a modern woman.

That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning.

Take your vitamins. Exercise. Just work to love yourself as much as you can - not more than the people around you but not so much less.

Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.

Don't undermine your worth by comparing yourself with others. It is because we are different that each of us is special.

The best way that we can begin to produce positive change is to make peace with what is in ourselves and others, and then work to move forward and make life even better.

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

Simply be who you are, do what you do best, be where you are called by joy, and let life work its magic on your behalf.

You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.

I was shy, but it came out in a big personality. My turning point was when I let my hair go naturally and I got contact lenses. I am really blind, by the way. I have these big eyes that don't work!

I think the most liberating thing I did early on was to free myself from any concern with my looks as they pertained to my work.

Just live! Live now! Don't wait, and don't let anyone tell you that you're a work in progress.

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

As I get older, I feel better about myself because I've done a lot of spiritual work on myself and balanced myself out, and so I feel more confident about myself as a person and as a woman.