Quotes About Self-acceptance

The trick was to live here without hating yourself because all around you was hatred. The trick was to refuse to allow your pain to prevent you from living honorably.

We love you because you are you." "It is OK to like yourself." "Don't measure yourself by what others accomplish.

I felt free to like all three of these men now, because I'd realized I didn't have to become them.

I am proud that I defy your categories. I am proud that I don't fit easily into any box. I am proud of all the things I am and all the things i can be. Question yourself every time you think you only see one thing in me.

iv. who was it who invented size zero? who was it who promised that if you got to a certain point you would no longer be?

you say you do not see it. you say I am too hard on myself. but I have lived with myself for too many years. I know exactly how hard I am.

My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.

No. I don't. You don't always have to be who they want you to be, you know.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving.

There are two approaches to going to a party. One approach is to try to make yourself into someone you're not. The other approach is the one I'm trying to use: instead of trying to be someone you're not, you can simply try to emphasize who you really are.

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why. You can have theories, but there will never be proof.

We want to whisper to him that the only way to free yourself from shame is to realize how completely arbitrary it is—just what he was saying a day ago.

I don't want to be the strong one, but I don't want to be the weak one, either.

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why.

But I have lived myself for too many years. I know exactly how hard I am.

You have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving.

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David Levithan

Coming out is a lifelong process, Ms. MacTraugh continued. Each time we meet someone new or move to a different setting, we're challenged to reveal who we are. It's not always easy. But no matter how difficult, it's something I've never regretted. So few things in life truly matter. Chief among them are being true to yourself, and being honest with others... As I said, only you can determine what's the right decision.

And what is a girl without curves if not, well, a boy?

It's natural to drag a good thing down. It takes a lot of control to let it be what it is -Rhiannon

After awhile, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are.

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