Quotes About Self-acceptance

You have to be able to laugh at yourself. Attitude is almost more important than what happens to you.

You don't need to get anywhere or be anything more than the beautiful soul that you already are.

Only the individual who has come to terms with his self can have a dispassionate attitude toward the world.

You and I don't have the same genetics, we don't live in the same places, but we can have the same basic attitude - being comfortable in our skin.

Someone has said that after age forty, each of us pretty much deserves the face he is wearing. He designed it form the inside.

shelter. "You are a mess." She could almost

but she felt like she had to earn him, and she hadn't. Not yet. And maybe never, she admitted to herself.

At that moment I was sure. That I belonged in my skin. That my organs were mine and my eyes were mine and my ears, which could only hear the silence of this night and my faint breathing, were mine, and I loved them and what they could do.

Yes no yes no yes no? Red blue? Yes red, no blue? No red, yes no? In out, up down? Do don't, can can't? Choices sit on the shelf life New shoes in a shoe shop. If the in crowd are squeezing into a must-have shoe And the one pair left are too tiny for you Don't feel compelled into choosing them If you're really a size 9, buy that size. While everyone else Hobbles round with sore feet Your choices should feel comfortable Or they aren't your choices at all. Why limp when you can sprint?

It would be a tragedy to spend your whole life desperately wanting to be something that you already were all along.

One of the most freeing things we learn in life is that we don't like everyone, everyone doesn't like us, and that's okay.

After all, we're all imperfect, and others have the right to tell us about it from time to time. But are you obliged to make yourself miserable and hate yourself every time someone flies off the handle or puts you down?

And most important, nobody could love or relate to you. It would be impossible to feel any love for someone who was flawless and knew it all. Doesn't that sound lonely, boring, and miserable? Are you so sure you still want perfection? Part V Defeating Hopelessness and Suicide

What I'm trying to say, Garion,' Durnik continued seriously, 'is that you can't go through life being afraid of what you are. If you do that, sooner or later somebody will come along who'll misunderstand, and you'll have to do something to show him that it's not him that you're afraid of.

It's always best in the long run to be what you are. It isn't proper to behave as if you were more, but it isn't good to behave as if you were less, either. Do you understand what I'm trying to say?

Until a person learns to laugh at himself, though, his life will be a tragedy – at least that's the way he'll see it.

it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.

That it takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

Every whole person has ambitions, objectives, initiatives, goals. This one particular boy's goal was to be able to press his lips to every square inch of his own body. His arms to the shoulders and most of the legs beneath the knee were child's play. After these areas of his body, however, the difficulty increased with the abruptness of a coastal shelf. The boy came to understand that unimaginable challenges lay ahead of him. He was six.

La culpa, no está en nuestras estrellas, sino en nosotros mismos, que consentimos en ser inferiores.

O, that he were here to write me down an ass! But, masters, remember, that I am an ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass.

Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st.

What do I fear? Myself? There's none else by. Richard loves Richard; that is, I and I.