Quotes About Self-acceptance

The great thing about getting older is that you learn not to care about being cool. I'm happy with who I am, I know what I like and I can't see myself changing… not for a little while, at least.

I don't mind not being cool; I wear a cardigan.

Conforming is not cool. Embracing who you are and what makes you different is actually what's really cool.

I was never the cool kid, I was never hot in high school. I was never popular. You don't have to be perfect and you don't have to be rich and you can still be successful.

Be at peace with yourself, or you'll be at war with everyone.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself. I mean do not be disheartened by your imperfections, but always rise up with fresh courage

It takes a lot of courage to be the same person on the outside that you are on the inside.

The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.

It takes a tremen­dous act of courage to admit to your­self that you are not defec­tive in any way what­so­ever.

It takes great personal courage to let yourself appear weak.

The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.

I've learned that loving your self requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world - our own self worth.

Humility is courage, the open acceptance of your own perfection.

Never bury something deep, baby. Takes twice as much courage to be who you are, say what you think, feel what you feel and let it show then it does to bury it.

Courage to be who you are is the cousin of loving the Divine, yourself and others.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

Respetar cuanto uno ha de respetar; no protestar por nada; no sufrir jamás la molestia de no tener confianza en sí mismo; no enredarse jamás en la obsesión ni ser torturado por la incapacidad, envenenado por el resentimiento, impulsado por la cólera…

So I'm trying, instead of shaming or pretending, to come to terms with my emotions, and bring them before God honestly. I have come to realize that I'm never going to stop having emotions, and probably strong emotions, because that is the way I'm wired.

Self-acceptance was the foundation of the happiest time in your life and it was the engine that powered the train.

At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That's wonderful, and I'm happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?