Quotes About Self-acceptance

Nothing could define her unless she let it. She had God in her life to heal those broken places, but she hadn't let him do it.

Be what you know you are without fear of disapproval.

Do not fight that which you are.

Everything gets better with time; how much time is up to us. It's dependent on when we choose to change the stories we tell about our lives; when we decide to spend more time creating the life we want than lamenting the hand we've been dealt; and when we realize that no one's love, forgiveness, or acceptance can be as profoundly healing as our own. Maybe if I stopped trying to control how I hurt, I'd feel a pain that would teach me what I need to do to love life more and need pain less.

If he had learned anything in manhood, it was that it didn't matter what other people thought of him—even the ones he respected. In the end, he would patch together a life, with its sorry errors and its triumphs, just as they had.

Is there any part of me that objects to my having [Core State] as a way of being in the world?

You've been trying to pretend to be a boy; you've sensed, rightly or wrongly, that your father would have preferred to have a boy, but there is nothing superior about being a boy. You be yourself, a beautiful woman with brains and knowledge, and be glad to be yourself. Then you will have a happy life.

If I like myself at this weight, then this is what I'm going to be. I don't have an eating disorder.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

I don't need any plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.

The sooner you make a mistake and learn to live with it, the better. You're not responsible for everything. You can't control the way things end up.

For her part, she knew she was plain. She didn't make herself up or pay a whole lot of attention to how she looked. It didn't seem worth her time.After all, she had no real interest in dating.

El primer paso para llegar a vencer la vergüenza consiste en aceptar lo que no podemos cambiar.

We are far from perfect but willing to be different.

Some of us are not meant to cowboy-up

The older I get, the more I think I look like a Muppet. Cady vehemently disagrees with this assessment, but she's fighting her own battle with this particular gene puddle.

The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic...

No deberías querer ser igual que todo el mundo. Entonces no serías tú misma".

I don't need anyone's pity. My life has been what it has been. It's not a wonderful story, but it's mine.

Si no me quiere tal como soy lo siento mucho, pero no voy a cambiar. Sissi, Emperatriz de Austria

It's alright. It's okay if it's about your ego. Sometimes it's got to be about your ego. Just know that it is.

We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.

We aren't who our pasts say we are. Damage doesn't define us. We define ourselves.

She didn't even have to look back. She'd made her choice. She didn't need to look into a broken mirror any longer.