Quotes About Self-acceptance

Je n'aurais jamais cru que vous souffriez de votre aspect. - Je n'en souffre pas. La souffrance est pour les autres, pour ceux qui me voient. Moi, je ne me vois pas. Je ne me regarde jamais dans les miroirs. Je souffrirais si j'avais choisi une autre vie; pour la vie que je mène, ce corps me convient.

Si no te quieren como tú quieres que te quieran, ¿qué importa que te quieran?

As you grow older, your body does become weaker, but your mind becomes stronger. You understand and accept yourself.

We live in a world where to admit anything negative about yourself is seen as a weakness, when it's actually a strength. It's not a weak move to say, 'I need help.' In the long run, it's way better, because you have to fix it.

Being vulnerable is not a sign of weakness. It's a sign of strength.

When you've displayed a weakness, you've displayed something a person can grab a hold of and attack you there. If you're not ashamed of it, who can make you feel bad about it? Nobody. If you make a mistake, at least you get to see them, identify them, acknowledge them and hopefully remedy them.

I wish everybody in the world liked me, but a lot of them don't. That's because my whatever - my weakness, my vulnerability, my ego, whatever it is.

But when you embrace your weakness, that's when you become strong.

I wouldn't change myself for anybody. I am who I am; people accept me, or they don't. I have my strengths and my weaknesses, which I can try to improve upon, of course. I'm still not the finished product.

Everything I was told should be my greatest insecurities and weaknesses, everything that I've been labeled - short, nerdy, skinny, weak, impulsive, ugly, tomboy, poor, rebel, loud, freak, crazy - turned out to be my greatest strengths. I didn't become successful in spite of them. I became successful because of them.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

I was afraid people wouldn't take me seriously, or would stop respecting me, if I talked about how bad I was feeling. The only people I talked openly about it with was my business partner, Dave Jilk, and my girlfriend - now wife - Amy Batchelor. They were amazingly supportive, but even then, I was deeply ashamed about my weaknesses.

I've got so many weaknesses.

I thought I was going to school to be other people, but really, what I learned was to be myself - accepting myself, my strengths and weaknesses.

It's that beautiful thing to love your weaknesses, your insecurities, and then put them all on blast. That's why I started writing, and that's why it was so hard to do it in public.

I've learned to use things like softness and vulnerability as weapons against the things you feel ashamed of in yourself.

I never wanted to wear skirts or shoes, makeup, nails, dresses, or even wear my hair a certain way. I always wanted to wear sneakers, stud earrings, hair in a ponytail, and play with the boys.

My eyes are too big, my nose is too flat, my ears stick out, my mouth is too big and my face is too small... my body is thin as a clarinet and my ankles are so skinny that I wear two pairs of bobby socks because I don't want people to see how thin they are.

There's an authenticity in just being who you are and not having an act about it or wear clothes you normally wouldn't wear. I'm just comfortable in my own skin.

Wear what feels nice to you, not to impress.

Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.

When you see me on TV against one of the other girls, they look 10 times better than me, and I'm OK with that. I make a conscious effort not to wear that much makeup and not have my hair so perfectly groomed. That's just not me. I'm not going to be perfect.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I'd rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me.

I'm no editor, no artisan, no expert. And certainly no arbiter of what you should buy, wear, or eat.