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Quotes About Self-acceptance

You have a right to be angry, but you mustn't turn that anger back on yourself because that only compounds the damage which has already been done. You must turn the anger outwards.
~ Susan Howatch
If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.
~ John Steinbeck
The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives, even about the you children being gone, but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else. What you must do is this: 'Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks.
~ Wendell Berry
The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you.
~ Wendy Mass
Why should I go further than I am able? Is it not enough for you that I am perfect?
~ William Carlos Williams
Love me for what I am Not what I try to be. Love me for what I am. I am A person who likes to lie too much. I try too much To impress other people... Often my inferiors.
~ William Finn
How could someone care if she were the most beautiful woman in the world or not. What difference could it have made if you were only the third most beautiful. Or the sixth.
~ William Goldman
If you're doing the best you can, that's good enough.
~ Chieko N. Okazaki
Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.
~ Chinese proverb
If you are standing upright, don't worry if your shadow is crooked
~ Chinese Proverbs
I can say that I am only human and I have made mistakes. I can say that I try to live my life in the most true, honest way that I can. I am not perfect, no one is. No one is harder on me than me. No one can please everyone. No one can live in the past and expect to grow. I have been moving forward and hope that I am not defined by just a few moments in my life but all of the moments that will make up my life.
~ Chris Brown
What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.
~ Chris Evans
If there is anything I've learned being the mother of many children, it's that you'd better laugh at yourself, because everyone else already is.
~ Chris Jordan
Better, perhaps, to dress like a whore around the clock and thus achieve a fully integrated personality.
~ Chris Kraus
I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.
~ Chris Martin
I don't mind not being cool.
~ Chris Martin
I often wonder if the bill is yet to be presented during our lifetime. If not, I must present it to myself.
~ Christa Wolf
becoming an ageless goddess means letting go of the fear that you aren't smart enough, educated enough, or intuitive enough to make the right decisions for yourself.
~ Christiane Northrup
I don't let someone else's idea about what "40," or "50," or "60," or any other number means inform how I see myself.
~ Christiane Northrup
I am who I am. Whether in joy or in pain. I am who I am.
~ Christie Golden
I've been through my highs, I've been through my lows; I've been through the gamut of all things in this business. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale. It's noise I block out automatically. I love my body. My boyfriend loooves my body. My son is healthy and happy, so that's all that matters to me.
~ Christina Aguilera
I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.
~ Christina Aguilera
I'm not cocky I just love myself
~ Christina Aguilera
I should not have to prove my ethnicity to anyone. I know who I am.
~ Christina Aguilera