Quotes About Self-acceptance

if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

feel what I feel within myself—that is trying to become aware of it also what I feel in others not being ashamed of my feeling, thoughts—or ideas realize the thing that they are—

I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!

To all the girls that think you're ugly because you're not a size 0, you're the beautiful one. It's society who's ugly.

You can read about yourself, but what's important is how you feel about yourself.

Be able to go shopping for a bathing suit and not become depressed afterward.

Rechazar ciertas pruebas porque son difíciles es también rechazarnos a nosotros mismos, aunque no seamos conscientes de ello. No necesitamos reducir el tamaño de la prueba, sino aumentar nuestra fortaleza frente a ella.

Esto me recuerda a las palabras de Eleanor Roosevelt que decía que nadie podía hacerte sentirte inferior sin tu consentimiento.

Usted no tiene que convertirse en nadie diferente a quien ya es, porque, en su esencia, usted ya es perfecto, esto es, completo. Lo único que tal vez necesite es descubrir qué hay realmente detrás de las palabras YO SOY.

Lo más trágico no es ser mediocre pero inconsciente de esa mediocridad; lo más trágico es ser mediocre y saber que se es así y no conformarse con ese destino que, por otra parte (eso es lo peor), es de estricta justicia.

Cuando me siento cursi, me desprecio un poquito, y eso es malísimo. Porque nunca es bueno despreciarse, a menos que existan razones fundamentadas, que no es mi caso.

Be Delivered from people and their opinions of you

What is past is past. never go back. Not for excuses. Not for justification, not for happiness. You are what you are, the world is what it is.

There is no growth without real feeling. Children not loved for who they are do not learn how to love themselves. Their growth is an exercise in pleasing others, not in expanding through experience. As adults, they must learn to nurture their own lost child.

Tomorrow will have a diet in it, maybe not a go-for-broke diet or even one that involves tracking calories, but I will always be conscious of what I eat and how much I exercise. That's why body neutrality doesn't feel like a good fit: I'm never going to stop wanting to be thinner or to stop chasing it. I know my life will always be this way, and I'm okay with that. That acceptance, even if it's an uneasy one, is my new normal.

I want my body to look good to me first and to the rest of the world second. I want to be someone whom I'd aspire to be if I were another woman or whom I would desire if I were a man. But I also want to reach some level of acceptance of the body I have, regardless of my weight.

I finally understood what my grandmother meant. If I wasn't comfortable with myself, I would never be comfortable.

I have always thought that if women's hair posed so many problems, God would certainly have made us bald.

He betrayed you, too." "I can't abandon people because they make mistakes - I would have to abandon myself.

But focus always on your shame, and your shame will eat you. It will become you. That is the coward's way. A coward never has to learn.

We women have a lot to learn about simplifying our lives. We have to decide what is important and then move along at a pace that is comfortable for us. We have to develop the maturity to stop trying to prove something. We have to learn to be content with what we are.

Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.

The healthiest, holiest, and happiest people on the planet are those who laugh at themselves the most.

Isn't that it, to be yourself and somehow, to belong?