Quotes About Self-acceptance

The picture we present to ourselves of who we think we ought to be obscures who we really are.

Something worth loving. But she could not love him as long as she hated herself. Her past wouldn't allow it.

Anything or anyone that asks you to be other than yourself is not holy, but is trying only to fill its own need.

Not permitted to desire another man's penis, the bodybuilder phallicizes that which he is permitted to desire: his own body.

yoga is not a practice of attaining idealized physical postures, but a process of self-exploration, self-acceptance, and self-transformation. Reinforce

These wrinkles are nothing These gray hairs are nothing, This stomach which sags with old food, these bruised and swollen ankles, my darkening brain, they are nothing. I am the same boy my mother used to kiss.

be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment," said Emerson

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

The months of being disingenuously friendly and the resulting self-hatred taught me that self-confidence cannot be based on the approval of others.

I always thought it's way more important to be funny or to be honest than to look any certain way

I have so many liver spots, I ought to come with a side of onions.

'Come out' is so funny to me because I've never been in.

You think I'm pretty Without any make-up on You think I'm funny When I tell the punch line wrong I know you get me So I'll let my walls come down, down.

I was always the funny-looking girl. I couldn't compete with the Brazilian girls. My nose is off, my ears are too big. But I think it's my personality that these designers were drawn to.

...I gotta burn these scales... sigh*

Buffy Andrews, Gina and Mike

But at the time I thought that if I could just get the world to see me the way I saw myself then my body wouldn't be the thing you walked away thinking about. I wouldn't be that fat girl.

My eyes are different sizes, my nose is too broad at the bridge and squishes up when I laugh, and my lips are sorta funny when I smile.

By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

When you invoke the agent of change called acceptance, you must accept all that you are, all that you've been and all that you will be in the future.

The last thing I would want for my future daughter would be to starve herself because she thought a thigh gap was necessary to be deemed attractive.

I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.

You let go of the past, and stop bringing the past into the present and replaying it into the future. You release guilt, shame, and you can create an entirely new pattern for yourself.

I face my future peacefully and calmly because I know I am enough