Quotes About Self-acceptance

young women around the age of thirty who are concerned with things like finding a husband, starting a family, paying their bills, and succeeding in their careers, as well as with how they look. I think the most important thing for them to know is that it's really normal to be freaked out about where you are in life, but those things you want so badly will come in due time. Meanwhile, life will be a lot more joyful if you learn how to be comfortable in your own skin.

But by the time we're in our thirties, I believe we should strive to own and respect who we are, regardless of our struggles and difficulties. After all, even every little and big mistake, like every scar, can be a lesson in humility—one of the greatest gifts of all.

It's useless to obsess over one standard of beauty, since it can change as soon as you cross a border. My travels have taught me this: The world can't decide what's beautiful. So you decide, okay?

as Glamour editor Emma Rosenblum, who recently turned thirty, says: "We're all on different time lines and need to realize that life isn't a race. It's more like one of those huge celebrity walkathons, where everyone's ambling along at her own pace, wearing a really dorky hat and lots of sunblock." By thirty, you should be moving at your own speed.

all over the world wars people plagued by the same ills as their oppressor the real revolution is to love myself.

A man who bows down to nothing can never bear the burden of himself.

If you have a beautiful face you don't need fake boobs to get anyone's attention

There are so many young women who need to hear this story. I don't want them to learn from my mistakes; I want them to stop hating themselves for mistakes of their own. I want them to laugh and see that they do have a voice and their own brand of intelligence and, girl, fuck fitting in.

If you live in a society that wishes you didn't exist, anything you do to make yourself happy disrupts its attempts to wipe you out, or at the very least, make you invisible.

The whole construct of my universe was a cunning, entangled network of lies. I had to start over again. I knew that. And I had to begin by ceasing to loathe myself for my difference from the rest.

I need you to forgive me. And then perhaps I can begin to forgive myself. There is no one but you who can do that either.

Live and let live is Frances's motto. "Life is short," she likes to say. "You only get one, and if you waste it worrying about what other people think

because neither of us will ever be any different from what we are this minute.

In a flash, I realized I had brought all this miser on myself by trying to fit myself into a pattern to which I did not conform.

If we know we are going to be rebuked anyhow, isn't it far better to beat the other person to it and do it ourselves

If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail, If you can't be the sun, be a star; It isn't by size that you win or you fail— Be the best of whatever you are!

Fact 1: It is okay to be who you are wherever you are.

Valójában, Szókratész, nincs ellenséged, csak te magad. Békélj meg magaddal, és nem lesz senki, aki legyÅ'zhet. És senki, akit te kívánnál legyÅ'zni.

The bargain was this: Admit the anxiety as an essential part of yourself and in exchange that anxiety will be converted into energy, unstable but manageable. Stop with the self-flagellating and become yourself, with scars and tics.

The truth is, if we become comfortable with who we are rather than who we think we should be, then we will be less insecure.

Only a short time ago, I learned that people laughed at me. Now I can see that unknowingly I joined them in laughing at myself. That hurts most of all.

Are you content? If so, you can afford to ignore the condemnation of the crowd.

She tried to soothe me, to tell me it didn't matter, that there was no reason to blame myself. But ashamed, and no longer able to control my anguish, I began to sob. There in her arms I cried myself to sleep, and I dreamed of the courtier and the pink-cheeked maiden. But in my dream it was the maiden who held the sword.

Be confident in the skin you are in, because that is the only body you will ever have, the only place that will ever be solely yours… you can be beautiful in your own way. And you have to accept, and own it.