Quotes About Self-acceptance

The best love is the one that makes you a better person, without changing you into someone other than yourself.

There's no need to try and fit in. If you're lucky enough to be different, don't ever change. Be yourself, and someone will come into your life one day, not caring what other people think of you. They'll love you for who you are, not the person everyone else wants you to be.

Just be honest and true to yourself. If your friends around you love you, they'll wish you the best and want only what's going to make you happy.

Learn to deal with the fact that you are not a perfect person but you are a person that deserves respect and honesty.

The biggest gift of being unambiguously mentally ill is the time I've saved myself trying to be normal.

If you're going to survive in this world, here's what you need to know: you are who you are, not what people think you are.

But what if there is nothing "wrong" with you at all?

I have made the choices that work best for me. I know I cannot please everyone, and that's fine.

I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.

He loved me, Mama. He just didn't know how things fall down around me like they do. I think he did the right thing. He gave himself another chance, that's all.....I was trying to say it's all right that Cecil left. It was...a relief in a way. I never was what he wanted to see, so it was better when he wasn't looking at me all the time.

if readers have a sincere desire to make life miserable for themselves, they might learn to compare themselves to other people. For those unfamiliar with this practice, he provides a few exercises. The first one displays full-length pictures of a man and a woman who embody ideal physical beauty by contemporary media standards. Readers are instructed to take their own body measurements, compare them to those superimposed on the pictures of the attractive specimens, and dwell on the differences.

mythologist Joseph Campbell suggested, "'What will they think of me?' must be put aside for bliss.

We were not meant to succumb to the dictates of should and have to, whether they come from outside or inside of ourselves. And if we do yield and submit to these demands, our actions arise from an energy that is devoid of life-giving joy.

A very ladylike bosom," she said, approvingly. "There's nothing there," I complained. The clerk grinned. "I have been fitting bras for twenty-five years and no one ever thinks her breasts are good enough," she said. "You'll save yourself a lot of unhappiness if you accept and enjoy what you have. Neat little breasts are very chic.

The only thing scarier than telling my secrets would be keeping them. When the "sensitive information" you carry is your own history, going mute to protect the system doesn't keep you from being destroyed; it just means that you destroy yourself.

Many of us have spent a lifetime trying to be what we're not, feeling lousy about ourselves when we fail, and sometimes when we succeed. We hide our differences when, by accepting and celebrating them, we could collaborate to make every effort more exciting, productive enjoyable, and powerful. Personally, I think we should start right now.

If I got angry at myself for being angry I would be angry constantly and I wouldn't have time to think about anything else.

I wanted to keep me the way I was.

They don't want me. (Hey, I don't want me, either, but I'm stuck with me.)

If God is willing to forgive you, who are you not to forgive yourself? You think you know better than God?

Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste. —Patricia Hampl S

Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya?

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