Quotes About Self-acceptance

It is the vain endeavor to make ourselves what we are not that has strewn history with so many broken purposes and lives left in the rough.

It's such a profound alienation for a person not to be at home in their own body.

If you're a young person, like I used to be and you're at home and you're being called weird or different, I'm here to tell you your critics do not count. Their words will fade. You won't.

I'll always be best known as Marie Osmond, but in my checking account and at home, I will gladly be Marie Craig.

I used to go to the same club every week in my home town, and even there I'd always stay at the back of the queue. I never once assumed I could just walk in.

If you can identify humor in problems then you will have less difficulties in solving them... Most importantly, "you should be able to laugh on yourself".

A fool I am and I'll always be. They can change their minds, but they can't change me.

I like to talk. I'm a terrible dancer. I love my hometown. I have freckles and oversized ears. I'm a geeks. I have tried not to hide who I am or what matters to me.

I think too many people, if you are 46 you want to look 36, and if you're 36 you want to look 26. I didn't want to do that. I've earned the gray hairs. So I wanted to show that level of honesty.

When you accept yourself completely you do not have to maintain a phony front, drive yourself to ''achieve'' or feel insecure if people tune-in to you and what you are doing.

How much more can you give? Other than, literally, open-heart surgery onstage? Not much. But the only cure you have right now is the honesty of going, this is who you are. I know who I am.

No matter how many thousands friends you've had, or even more likes you've got, but if you do not enjoy being yourself, then you just keep lying to yourself and unto others as well.

An opportunity to honor the legacy of the lives drawn into the lines in my face, the broad of my nose, the dark of my eyes, the fullness of my lips, and coal in my complexion.

Having failed to conquer myself, my best hope now is to arrange an alliance with myself.

Sweat pants, hair tied, chillin wit no makeup on. That's when you're the prettiest, I hope that you don't take it wrong.

I hope people like me and appreciate me the way I am.

The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.

After 14 years of dieting, there are only two things I've never lost. Hope and weight.

I hope there is nothing about me that people have a big problem with. You know, I like to think of myself as lovable.

Healing begins with owing your scars & disowning that which caused them

Be humble, be gracious, and make peace with inner fears before stepping out into the limelight and allowing yourself to be subjected to all of humanity.

Confidence is at the root of so many attractive qualities - a sense of humor, a sense of style, a willingness to be who you are no matter what anyone else might think or say.

Other than the voices in my head, I think I'm pretty normal.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.