Quotes About Self-acceptance

if you know anything about Buddhism, you will know that the most important point is to be yourself and not try to become anything that you are not already. Buddhism is fundamentally about being in touch with your own deepest nature and letting it flow out of you unimpeded.

Remember, now is the only time you have for anything. You have to accept yourself as you are before you can really change. Your choosing to do so becomes an act of self-compassion and intelligence. When

Right in that or any moment of non-doing, you are already OK, already perfect, in the sense of perfectly who and what you are. And therefore, right in that moment you are already at home in a profound way, far beyond who you think you are and the ideas and opinions that may so shape and sometimes severely limit your view of the larger whole.

So before we convince ourselves that our bodies are too this or too that, shouldn't we get more in touch with how wonderful it is to have a body in the first place, no matter what it looks or feels like?

that the most important point is to be yourself and not try to become anything that you are not already.

There is more right with you than wrong with you"—those

to stop trying so hard to be "somebody" and instead just experience being, perhaps we would be a lot happier and more relaxed.

If you are mindful as emotional storms occur, perhaps you will see in yourself an unwillingness to accept things as they already are, whether you like them or not. Perhaps that part of you that does see this has, in one way or another, already come to terms with what has happened or with your situation. Perhaps, at the same time, it recognizes that your feelings still need to play themselves out, that they are not ready to accept the situation or to calm down, and that this too is all right.

David looked at her and smiled. "I think you have to feel comfortable being alone with yourself before you truly know who you are and can feel comfortable being yourself with others.

I'm the curvy one of the family.

The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.

I can't imagine having cosmetic surgery because I have my values and little family who makes me feel incredibly accepted but you never know.

My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.

As long as I continue to hear "normal" people telling me I am too childish I know I'm doing just fine.

The best thing to do is to behave in a manner befitting one's age. If you are sixteen and under try not to go bald.

If you don't define yourself for yourself then you will be crushed into other's fantasies of you and eaten alive

I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.

I do love you. I love you enough to accept who you are. Why can't I received the same feeling in return?"-Ariel

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.

Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.

Never feel guilty. Don't hold yourself back by guilt or fear. No other species in the entire world deals with guilt. Guilt is a bizarre emotion that makes you feel bad about decisions that you make.