Quotes About Self-acceptance

I forgive myself for not being perfect. I am living the very best way I know how.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I'm going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that's OK.

Stop looking out, start looking in. Be your own best friend. Stand up and say, hey, this is mine!

You don't have to live up to anyone's expectations, just be the best you can be

Do you. Just focus on being the best version of yourself that you can be every day, and don't compare yourself to anyone else or worry about what they're doing.

You can't change who you are but you can surely make the best of it. And if you've got a thought act on it.

Be yourself,its the best thing you can be.

Be happy with who you are, and know that being you is the best thing you can do for yourself.

I used to feel like I had to be the best at what I did, but I realized I don't have to be the best. It's so freeing. I've never been this happy.

I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As a new mom, it is what it is, and we just have to do our best.

I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.

Looking 50 is great, if you're 60.

Congratulations on turning 60 Now you can wear what you like No one cares, and more particularly You're fine telling 'em 'Take a hike'

What do you think about me is not my business the important thing is what I think about myself.

That you will feel the validation of your external beauty but also get to the deeper business of being beautiful inside. There is no shade in that beauty.

What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn't change what I decide to do.

We feel that we have to be right so that we can feel good... The whole right and wrong business closes us down and makes our world smaller.

The moment you feel like you need to prove yourself, is the moment you need to be silent and walk away.

Don't be hard on yourself. And take as many chances, risks, as you can.

WE ALREADY HAVE everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement. All these trips that we lay on ourselves—the heavy-duty fearing that we're bad and hoping that we're good, the identities that we so dearly cling to, the rage, the jealousy and the addictions of all kinds—never touch our basic wealth.

The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself.

elemental struggle is with our feeling of being wrong, with our guilt and shame at what we are.

When you find yourself slumping, that's the motivation to sit up, not out of self-denigration but actually out of pride in everything that occurs to you, pride in who you are just as you are, pride in the goodness or the fairness or the worstness of yourself—however you find yourself—some sort of sense of taking pride and using it to spur you on.

What we hate in ourselves, we'll hate in others. To the degree that we have compassion for ourselves, we will also have compassion for others.