Quotes About Self-acceptance

I've been praying to Jesus and the Holy Ghost for patience and I have also mentioned that it would help if I did not have frizzy hair.

Seventh grade. Eleven years old. A bookworm-misfit with long black braids, childish white socks, pointy pink glasses, and no courage for flirting. It's doesn't take long to learn that I'm ridiculous.

There are days when I still want to dismantle this constructed self of mine. You did it so badly, I think. You lost so much time. And then I tell myself, so what? So what? Go on.

It's about who I am right now. That I have value and worth as a person just being who I am. I don't have to do things or achieve something for approval, for love. For you to love me.

I'm not something you fix like a broken plate or revise like a term paper. I'm a person. You love a person by accepting who they are, not constantly fixing them or trying to shape or change or teach them.

The older I get, the more I realize that what other people think about me has little to do with who I am. … We can't change other people, and we can't force them to see us the way we would like to be seen.

You are strong enough to sing as you wish, not as your pain has forced you to. You aren't your hurt. You're other than that. You are not the broken things you've been.

My imperfections make me less mournable.

But I ask you, wouldn't it be worse if I were perfect ? My imperfections make me less mournable.

Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect; it makes you feel inadequate.

You really have to look inside yourself and find your own inner strength, and say, 'I'm proud of what I am and who I am, and I'm just going to be myself.'

but embarrassment.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

He liked to think of himself as fighting trim. At this point though, he was more like pacifist fat. Or at least he felt that way, stuffed to the gills.

Altering your behavior or being someone different from who you are is a recipe for disaster. He is attracted to you—the real you—just the way you are, not to some woman who has no life except for him.

Comparschläger: noun; a self-inflicted poison. Activates when you compare yourself to others and end up feeling worthless. Analogous to Goldschläger, the disgusting cinnamon-flavored schnapps with gold flakes that, when ingested in large quantities, makes you puke.

If I stopped dyeing my hair everyone would know that my golden hair is actually gray, and my long American youth would be over—and then what?

You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

Perfectionism sucks the air out of your uniqueness and leaves you empty, away from who you could become.

I waited to feel incredibly embarrassed, but the feeling didn't come. It was more like a small victory, a secret to everyone else but me.

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves to like themselves.

I tried being anorexic for four hours and then i was like, i need some bagels.

I don't do yoga. I bite the hella outta my nails. I smoke, I eat all the wrong food, I don't exercise.