Quotes About Self-acceptance

What you call flaws are really just scars and wounds accumulated over a lifetime.

To become a better you, you must be positive towards yourself, develop better relationships, embrace the place where you are.

I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.

One of the many insights of Carl Rogers was that when people feel unacceptable they are immobilized, unable to change. It is, paradoxically, when people experience acceptance that they are freed to change.

This above all - to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as night follows day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

An ill-favored thing, sir, but mine own.

This above all to thine own self be true.

To Thine Ownself Be True

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.

It is all right to be simply the way you have to be, among contradictory ridges in some crescendo of knowing.

I don't believe in adhering to any rules I don't support and I didn't vote for. To hell with what people think. Just be who you are and you'll be happy.

A little flattery, like a warm bath and soft towel, will let you get along with yourself, lie down with yourself, and sleep.

I'm Short and fat and proud of that!!

When we lose twenty pounds... we may be losing the twenty best pounds we have! We may be losing the pounds that contain our genius, our humanity, our love and honesty.

If you walk through your fear that something must be wrong with you, then what you always find on the other side is that there's nothing wrong with you. And there's nothing to be afraid of," he tells her. "What happens then?" Katie asks, sobbing. "When you get to that other side, there's only one thing waiting—joy.

Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.

It's wonderful what becomes possible when we start to accept ourselves," he told me. "Others find it easier to accept us, too, when we don't keep engaging in negative thoughts about ourselves.

Of course, we cannot genuinely accept others and wish for their happiness if we don't first accept ourselves.

We don't fear physical closeness because we fear proximity itself. Most of us earnestly want physical contact with those who love us. Rather we fear what we will feel when we get too close. The real fear, then, is of ourselves. This fear is not something to rebuke ourselves for. It is our deepest vulnerability, the very quality that makes us most lovable.

As long as you hold onto wanting something from the outside, you will be dissatisfied because there is a part of you that you are still not totally owning. . . . How can you be complete and fulfilled if you believe that you cannot own this part [of yourself ] until somebody else does something? . . . If it is conditional, it is not totally yours. —A. H. ALMAAS

It is a sign of health when we acknowledge the legitimacy of our longings.

Resist trying to be what other people want you to be. Anyone in your life who tries to change you is really saying: as I can't control myself I will try and control you. By the same token, don't attempt to control other people's behaviour - it's not your place.

Rules don't apply here," laughed Lisa. "Dennis, you can be whoever you want to be!" 9

She said, "Why do you, like, hate yourself?" "If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?