Quotes About Self-acceptance

I was a glaring blot on the perfection. But I didn't care: I didn't feel I owed him beauty.

You have to make peace with yourself. The key is to find the harmony in what you have.

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.

More often than not, the ideal breast is an invented breast. Decolletage, the tushy breast, is an artifact of clothing. Naked breasts don't dance cheek to cheek--they turn away from each other. Breasts vary in size and shape to an outlandish degree, but they can be whipped into an impressive conformity, and because we are human and we can't leave anything alone, we have whipped away.

We are all yeses. We are worthy enough, we passed inspection, we survived the great fetal oocyte extinctions. In that sense, at least—call it a mechanospiritual sense—we are meant to be. We are good eggs, every one of us.

The ability to put something down—to tell how you feel about an old husband, an old shoe, or the memory of a cheese sandwich on a gray morning in Miami—that moment you can finally align how you feel inside with the words you write; at that moment you are free because you are not fighting those things inside. You have accepted them, become one with them.

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

You don't need to explain me who am I, I know that I am best in my own way.

There is a curious tendency in our modern world to overidentify with our shortcomings and even define ourselves by our mistakes, presumed limitations, and all the things we can't yet do.

If my aim is to prove I am "enough," the project goes on to infinity—because the battle was already lost on the day I conceded the issue was debatable.

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

Saying she doesn't mind being alone...that she's alright... There isn't a person alive who'd really feel that way!

you must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you'll catch up.

It's okay. Calm down. Listen. We never asked you to do more than you can handle, and we're not going to. There's a difference between trying your best and trying too hard. When you want help, ask for help. And quit...apologizing for everything!

I'm not a cat. And I'm not gonna turn into one even if you hug me . . . I was born like this.

Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you're being right now.

glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday and dream of who you can be tomorrow...

You'll need to drop the model of self-alienation that you learned as a child—the one that tells you, "You are lazy and need someone to force you to work.

In extreme cases of perfectionism, there is no distinction between judgment of one's work and one's sense of value as a person.

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

CARTER This isn't meant as a … you know, to make up for what I said or whatnot, but … my mom was fat. Is. LaBute, Neil (2004-11-29). Fat Pig: A Play (p. 48). Faber & Faber. Kindle Edition.

in a few moments he came into the core of himself, where he was alone, and felt strangely companioned, not by anyone or anything, but by himself. The rejected self found refuge here, not a cowed refuge, but somehow a wandering ease; as if it were indestructible, and had its own final pride, its own secret eyes.

There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life -- from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of parents and friends, outside of some minor tweaking, to reinforce the belief that we're okay just as we are. But it's not enough to just be yourself. You have to be your best self. And that's a tall order if you haven't found your best self yet.