Quotes About Self-acceptance

What's wrong with being naked?" --Zeena Schreck on AMLA to Christian Minister Jerry Johnston

A flower does not think of competing to the flower next to it. It just blooms.

It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me- the study, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.

Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

Stuff always happens, whether a day from now or years, stuff that will make a person glad to be alive, if you can somehow just ride through the self-hatred and the gouging and the bad.

Forgive yourself, be calm and be kind; nothing will disturb your inner peace of mind.

Secretly we fear ourselves, not the fear itself.

To change yourself, let go of what you are and accept what you want to be.

What you think about yourself is more important than what others think about you.

Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?

The greatest act of courage is to be and to own all of who you are — without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.

Self-awareness is the ability to take an honest look at your life without any attachment to it being right or wrong, good or bad.

We all make mistakes. Big and small. But you don't have to let them define you forever.

Maybe it is time to get over your daddy issues and just deal with it.

Forgive yourself for being an imperfect human being. The goddess doesn't expect perfection, although she does expect you to try and do better. Allow yourself to be happy. Live the life you want, and follow the path of your heart.

Understand that each part that is experienced internally is a part of you, a person with DID.

But I know that if I don't at least try, I'll stay the way I am till it kills me. Till I kill me, I mean. I never really accept that that's what I'm doing - I say it, but I don't believe it.

I felt at ease with myself, which must have meant that she did not regard me as strange and so I had no reason to imitate someone who was less strange and had been saved from doing the chameleon thing.

Looking outside of yourself for love and acceptance, leaves your happiness in the hands of others.

There was only one perfect man and his name was Jesus. You're human, Wyatt. Always have been, always will be. Humans all make mistakes, so give yourself a break, won't ya?

Don't be afraid of looking dumb or saying the wrong thing. Laughing at yourself is the best way to develop a sense of humor (if you don't already have one) and, at the same time, make people feel less threatened by you.

To acquire true self power you have to feel beneath no one, be immune to criticism and be fearless.

The basis of everything in the wizards' world rests upon the insight "All this is myself." Therefore, in accepting the world as it is, the wizard views everything in the light of self-acceptance, which is the light of love.