Quotes About Self-acceptance

Remember, breasts don't sag as we get older, they relax.

Maybe Jenny and Grace weren't so different from the butterfly… maybe they both needed to simply be who they were, stop trying to wish themselves into something else, someone else… or their color would get rubbed off… by unmet expectations, friends, family… even themselves. Maybe it was time to learn to accept who they were… time to learn to protect their color.

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

Love is louder than the pressure to be perfect.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

Do not wish to be anything except what you are.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.

Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.

An intimate relationship does not banish loneliness. Only when we are comfortable with who we are can we truly function independently in a healthy way, can we truly function within a realtionship. Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it take two wholes.

I'm weaker than you know.

Love is not what we become but who we already are

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

The meaning of life is to love yourself completely, free yourself and others from guilt and become totally visible no matter what the risk.

Ragged clothes?" He grabbed my hand and examined it. "Chipped nails? Those aren't enough to disguise what's inside. You'll always be you, Lia. You can't run from that.

but she still burns. she is on fire with need. burning that goes deeper than her skin, etched deeply, maybe in her soul, and there seems to be nothing for it, no balm, save inching her arms up to hold herself and wishin the arms weren't her own.

One loses many laughs by not laughing at oneself.

Perfectionism is burdensome and self-defeating. Accepting imperfection in yourself frees you (and perhaps your child) from the burden of unrealistic expectations. No parent is perfect, and your best is good enough. If you have made a mistake, in almost all cases it can be corrected.

I'd spent way more years worrying about how to look like a poet -- buying black clothes, smearing on scarlet lipstick, languidly draping myself over thrift-store furniture -- than I had learning how to assemble words in some discernible order.

I didn't have to be perfect-hardly anyone was perfect. Why did I think I had to be perfect all the time?

I would always think the worst of people and it would keep me from them because I couldn't accept myself.

A woman is as young as her knees.

You mustn't get so upset about what you feel, Spud. No one's a hundred per cent consistent all the time. We might like to be. We can plan our lives along certain lines. But you know, there's no future in screwing down all the pressure valves and smashing in the gauge. You can do it for a bit and then something goes. Sometimes it gets that the only thing is just to say, 'That's what I'd like to feel twenty-four hours a day; but, the hell with it, this is how I feel now.