Quotes About Self-acceptance

I have never viewed myself as disabled.

I don't have all answers, but as far as viewing my body... I'm in a place where I can look at my stretch marks and say, 'Oh, hey, stretch marks!' and I'm over it.

When I become the village idiot, or at least, it starts to become a joke, you can't do that much longer.

I see people around not wanting to acknowledge that they come from a small town, but it is like a jewel in my crown. I am proud to be a village girl.

My parents let me get my outfit in the gayest place possible, the 'International Male Catalog.' They sold mostly speedos and thongs and clubwear, and I was like, I'm getting that sheer shirt with the dragon on it, and then those vinyl patent leather pants and the cheetah platform boots.

The themes in 'Violet' are universal: accepting yourself with all of your flaws, moving on, and the forgiveness and freedom that comes along with that.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.

Too often people feel pressured to forgive and then end up believing that something's wrong with them if they can't quite get there - that they aren't enlightened enough or strong enough or compassionate enough ... You can have compassion without forgiving. There are many ways to move on, and pretending to feel a certain way isn't one of them

O terapeuta explicou que, com frequência, diferentes partes do nosso íntimo querem coisas distintas, e se silenciamos as partes que consideramos inaceitáveis, elas encontrarão outras maneiras de se fazerem escutar.

Sometimes we imprison ourselves with a narrative of self-punishment.

Many of us torture ourselves over our mistakes for decades, even after we've genuinely attempted to make amends.

Your feelings don't have to mesh with what you think they should be," he explained.

Sharing difficult truths might come with a cost — the need to face them — but there's also a reward: freedom. The truth releases us from shame.

But too often people feel pressured to forgive and then end up believing that something's wrong with them if they can't quite get there—that they aren't enlightened enough or strong enough or compassionate enough. So what I say is this: You can have compassion without forgiving. There are many ways to move on, and pretending to feel a certain way isn't one of them.

Jack Kornfield said: "A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance." In therapy we aim for self-compassion (Am I human?) versus self-esteem (a judgment: Am I good or bad?).

How long do you think the sentence for this crime should be? A year? Five? Ten?" Many of us torture ourselves over our mistakes for decades, even after we've genuinely attempted to make amends. How reasonable is that sentence?

Some people hope that therapy will help them find a way to be heard by whoever they feel wronged them, at which point those lovers or relatives will see the light and become the people they'd wished for all along. But it rarely happens like that. At some point, being a fulfilled adult means taking responsibility for the course of your own life and accepting the fact that now you're in charge of your choices. You have to move to the front seat and be the mommy dog driving the car.

The therapist explained that often different parts of ourselves want different things, and if we silence the parts we find unacceptable, they'll find other ways to be heard.

We may want others' forgiveness, but that comes from a place of self-gratification; we are asking forgiveness of others to avoid the harder work of forgiving ourselves.

A second quality of mature spirituality is kindness. It is based on a fundamental notion of self-acceptance.

If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're okay with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're okay with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

If you don't like something about yourself, change it. If you're OK with it, you gotta own it. There's nothing in between.

Use your memories to create something that keeps you warm at night, instead of clinging to worn-out emotions that tie you to past mistakes. We are all flawed, but we are also all perfect in our humanity.