Quotes About Self-acceptance

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I've made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.

We'll love you just the way you are if you're perfect.

My inner child is not wounded.

I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.

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

Ladies, beauty is not defined by the size of you jeans.

Eve wasn't a size 6 and neither am I.

I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.

A woman may develop wrinkles and cellulite, lose her waistline, her bustline, her ability to bear a child, even her sense of humor, but none of that implies a loss of her sexuality, her femininity.

For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real and diverse female bodies can't possibly fit. Without these visual references, each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. We stop being comparatives. We begin to be unique.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic -- in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.

Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves

The greatest happines of life is the conviction that we are loved-loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

You'll have moments when you feel like a lion, and moments when you feel like a mouse. Just know that no matter how you fell, you still have a heartbeat and a soul worthy of love, so learn to roar even when you feel small, because you are more than the feelings you have.

You don't need to change yourself in order to be loved by someone the right person will love you for who you are.

Happiness is always knowing that Jesus loves you even when you don't love you.

This is me. Don't judge, don't hate. I am who I am, I'm who God made me too be, an angel with a few scars and broken hearts and a voice that should be heard. I'm a solider and a fighter, I fight for love and I fight for those who need an angel too.

Contentment lies within us, it lies in realizing that the love and trust we are trying to get from others, stays within us.

Smile because you can, love because you want to be loved, accept the things you can not change, and change the things you can not accept.

LOVE, COURAGE, TRUTH.. don't be afraid to LOVE yourself, have the COURAGE to live your life your way, and never be afraid to speak the TRUTH.

Be yourself. Stand confidently in the knowledge of what you are bringing to the table and then allow the mysterious, all-knowing and conquering energy of Love to do what it does best for you!!