Quotes About Self-acceptance

The miracle of Lourdes is acceptance, Sam. I asked God to help you to understand and to accept yourself.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.

It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that.

You aren't kidding. But you know, it's likely going to be the only time I'll ever be that skinny and have a fur coat.

Bowing my head, I took it - I didn't fight it, I took it - accepting it with a feeling of inevitability. It was as if a part of me had died, accepting that I couldn't be who I wanted, so I had to work at making who I was someone I could live with.

Det er for øvrig ikke tvil om at det skal en viss grad av hjærnetomhet til for å kunne gå og være varig tilfreds med sig selv og alt.

She resolved not to beat herself up because she was attracted to a deadly, vampiric maniac that she yearned to kill.

I like myself. Other than some late blooming magickal powers and some sealed legal records, I think I'm pretty fucking nifty. -Mariketa

Sometimes you just need to be mad or sad, Evie. Sometimes you just need to let it happen. But put a cap on it, then get back to happy.

The thing about me is – essentially, I'm a coward. I am. I can't stand weird stuff, anything that's not normal. […] I'm a coward, and I've faced it, and I've learn to accept it. And I'm okay with that, as long as nothing happens so I have to start feeling ashamed about it, or guilty. I don't think my parents know this about me. […] But the other thing is, I just hate it when people are disappointed in me.

I've never been 'specially proud of myself, but I'd rather be the way I was born than anything else in the whole world.

Mrs. Hammon told me that God made my hair red on purpose and I haven't card for him since.

You can be happy with someone who likes you despite your faults - until you meet someone who likes your faults.

For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.

Intimacy starts with a relationship with yourself, an understanding of who you are.

It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it's OK.

To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.

Know your religion, know who you are and don't be ashamed.

The exact proportion and combination of the qualities within you, as they are, even while you search and struggle for them to be different or better, is a unique beauty.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Love yourself, appreciate yourself, see the good in you... and respect yourself.

Above all things, respect yourself.

If you respect yourself and you love yourself, that's the only way anybody else is going to.

Respect your uniqueness, and drop comparison. Relax into your being.