Quotes About Self-acceptance

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.

If we look in the Mirror, we Know who we Are hope You are Proud on that Moment. Jan Jansen

I don't want my wrinkles taken away - I don't want to look like everyone else.

you can be different if u be u

We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole.

What poems are doing is counterbalancing the mainstream tenor of our culture, which is to do, to be active, to be energetic and to prove one's self… and one of the messages underlying all poems that move us is that we have nothing at all to prove

Here is a soul, accepting nothing.

We have to make friends with ourselves and be kind to those aspects of ourselves we like least. Learning to be kind to ourselves brings the discovery that fundamentally we are quite soft. We become hard when we habitually deny our own woundedness and blame others for causing our pain. In admitting our own hurt, we become soft and vulnerable.

They learn to relate by caretaking, pleasing, isolating, or acting out rather than fully relating with their true and authentic selves. As a result, they feel accepted for their roles, not for who they were. Adult Children often have no idea how to have an equal partner relationship with healthy communication and normal conflict. As one ACOA said, "I feel that everyone else got a book at birth on how to live life, have relationships, and parent—and I never got my copy.

He was beautiful, but he was what he was. A man.

There is no need to justify your existence. You do not need to write or preach to justify yourselves, for instance. Being is its own justification.

Fat is not a moral problem. It's an oral problem.

In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show.

Remember, as you look at yourself, to look kindly, and also remember that you are not balancing a checkbook: anything you see that you don't like, or that you want to change, is not a debit that you subtract from your virtues.

That girl peering back at me from the water was me, just me. The real me. Not the other versions I tried to be to win anyone over. I took a breath and exhaled. I forgave myself for my prior judgments of not being good enough to be just who I was. The truth was I was just doing the best I could with what I knew at the time. But now I knew better.

If I hold back, I'm no good. I'm no good. I'd rather be good sometimes, than holding back all the time.

After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle ----- [expletive deleted by the New York Times], maybe they'll have a second thought - that they can be themselves and win.

You are only as much as you settle for.

Being envious of other people's talents will make you bitter. Being envious of other people will steal your joy. Be yourself. Believe me, the sooner you are able to cheer yourself on, the better. Do what YOU do and BE who YOU are.

Authentically positive self-talk is your most important ally in the healing process. You cannot heal completely without it."1 She describes this nurturing self-talk as growing out of a close relationship with yourself, learning to become your own best friend.

Don't be afraid to show your flaws.

When you know people are really at peace with who they are and what they do, they collaborate and want to help you to improve.

We don't care about humiliating ourselves to ourselves, after all, no one is going to judge us and there are no witnesses.