Quotes About Self-acceptance

I've got nothing to be ashamed of.

I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.

I'm not ashamed of myself.

I do not let anyone make me feel ashamed of being who I am.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

We are all victims of what is done to us. We can either use that as an excuse for failure, or we can say, "I want something better than that, I deserve something better than that, and now I'm going to try to make myself a life worth living

In my experience people who can't stop making jokes about their identity aren't easy with it. The man of the world accepts who he is and the influences which have made him, and then gets on with living in the world.

Why be uptight about bowel movements and sex? We all have sex. We all have penises -- except for those of us who have vaginas.

Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't be able to stand looking at it. But it's when we're willing to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel.

With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

And let the lesson be - to be yersel's, Ye needna fash gin it's to be ocht else. To be yersel's - and to mak' that worth bein' Nae harder job to mortals has been gi'en.

Unless I accept my faults, I will most certainly doubt my virtues.

I sometimes react to making a mistake as if I have betrayed myself. My fear of making a mistake seems to be based on the hidden assumption that I am potentially perfect and that if I can just be very careful I will not fall from heaven. But a 'mistake' is a declaration of the way I am, a jolt to the way I intend, a reminder I am not dealing with the facts. When I have listened to my mistakes I have grown.

her face had decided long ago that make-up wasn't going to cure anything. Her

Neither imagine that you are false, nor lash yourself, for both may be forms of self-indulgence.

However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can't run away from your own feet.

don't worry please please how many times do I have to say it there's no way not to be who you are and where.

It's a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place. It is the ground of your absolute value and everything that is truly worthwhile.

No matter how much people recognize you, or how popular you are with them, you will be unhappy unless you acknowledge yourself. True recognition does not only come from those around you or the world. It comes when you recognize and love yourself

I absolutely don't care about my looks and I'm so used to them that I wouldn't change a thing. I would end up missing my defects.

I didn't want to come up with some generic Johnny Bravo type name. I'm not that cool, so I might as well stick with my birth name.

Harold: This is real nice. Makes me want to do somersaults. Maude: Well, why don't you? Harold: I'd feel stupid. Maude: Harold, everyone has the right to make an ass out of themselves. You just can't let the world judge you too much.

The scars don't define you. Who you really are inside is what matters. Any woman with real depth would know that.