Quotes About Self-acceptance

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

I would rather . . . that the whole world should be at odds with me, and oppose me, rather than that I myself should be at odds with myself, and contradict myself.

In my opinion it's preferable for me to be a musician with an out-of-tune lyre or a choir-leader with a cacophonous choir, and it's preferable for almost everyone in the world to find my beliefs misguided and wrong, rather than for just one person - me - to contradict and clash with myself.

There are two things a person should never be angry at: what they can help, and what they cannot.

She wanted to run away from herself, away from her face, the hideous face that had stared back at her in the mirror with those frightening unfamiliar eyes.

Me and normal have never really been on speaking terms.

I wonder if it was your father who made you think so little of yourself," Wolfe said, which was not at all what Jess expected. "Having met the man, I would believe it. But, Jess: don't believe what the demons whisper in the corners of your mind. We all have demons. You are not to be compared against any of the others, or against your own brother. You are yourself. And if I had not seen genius in you, I never would have kept you in the class. I don't coddle mediocrity.

I'm too broken to be broken anymore.

I'm not that girl who randomly meets a guy one night and has her life change. I wear cords and flannel shirts. I don't have the killer body like Tris or Caroline. Sometimes I don't wash my hair for three days and sometimes I don't floss.

Maybe your unspeakable defects give you power too?

My form is neither pleasing nor displeasing," she said. "But I've let the world see how little I care for its verdict.

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are. (in Bill Moyers' Healing and the Mind)

When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn't hurt anyone but yourself——well, you can forgive yourself for those.

Never waste energy beating yourself up. Other people are always standing in line to do it.

Out of the seething crowd, out of the light and the darkness, came Blossom Rosedale, the one and only Happy Monster, which was a name that she had given herself, not because she loathed the way she looked but because she was truly happy in spite of all her suffering.

with high cognitive ability, to one degree or another, were often fools and should embrace their foolishness rather than deny it.

all creatures with high cognitive ability, to one degree or another, were often fools and should embrace their foolishness rather than deny it.

I'm Shelly Framington. But call me Sarah. I don't like who Shelly was, what she did.

Carson heard that expression more often these days—It is what it is—and it nettled him every time someone spoke it. He wanted to say to Eckman, You are what you are, and now I know what that is.

If you have an inner dialogue that disempowers you, it won't change until you yourself replace it with a positive, powerful, internal conversation.

When you don't own an aspect of yourself it runs your life.

You're so authentic. You are who you are and you aren't willing to apologize for it. I like that.

Loving myself meant eating, sleeping, and exercising—taking care of myself emotionally and physically.

No, your problem is that you've grown so comfortable with feeling guilty that you're afraid of what will happen if you don't. Being happy frightens the very life out of you.