Quotes About Self-acceptance

Real knowing of ourselves can only occur after we are convinced that we are deeply loved precisely as we are. The fact that God loves and knows us as sinners makes it possible for us to know and love our self as sinner. It all starts with knowing God's love.

Spare me perfection. Give me instead the wholeness that comes from embracing the full reality of who I am, just as I am. Paradoxically, it is this whole self that is most perfect. As it turns out, wholeness, not perfection, is the route to the actualization of our deepest humanity.

Can't help the way I'm made. Don't want to help it, either. It's gotten me this far. As

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.

I didn't give you this life, honey. They took to you because of who you are. You gave yourself this life.

Of course! That was it! I didn't need a tattoo. What I needed was something a lot less expensive and considerably less painful. What I needed was a Playboy. Guys who are gay do not keep Playboy magazines in their bedrooms.

Strange, isn't it, how one can always learn to love oneself, however ghastly one is?

FORD: That's right - and you said, when you've done something unforgiveable, forgive yourself, and that's what I've done, and it's done.

Accept the fact that you're never gonna be someone else and embrace the fact that the world needs you as God made you to be.

I am what I am. I love me! And I don't mean that egotistically - I love that God has allowed me to take whatever it was that I had and to make something out of it.

God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself.

We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

I'm beautiful in my way 'cause God makes no mistakes. I'm on the right track baby, I was born this way.

Quit worrying about what other people think and just be who God made you to be. If you will run your race, God will take care of your critics.

I thought that I was mutant somehow. I eventually realized that I have a very natural look, and that's what God gave me, and I'm proud of it. It was kind of a way for me to get past that as well.

God made me the way that I am and it's my business to be true to that.

If you try to be someone else, you rob God of who He is trying to make YOU to be.

God made me in my beautiful form so I'm just trying to execute it.

By the grace of God I am what I am

Laughter at oneself is always proof that god has healed us in the touchy places!

If you were enough like God, some one wouldn't like you.

It's better to become who God created you to be than to try to promote yourself to become something you're not.

Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.

Praise adds nothing to your holiness, nor does blame take anything from it. You are what you are, and you cannot be said to be better than you are in God's sight.