Quotes About Self-acceptance

One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.

I think it's great to be flawed. I am hugely flawed, and I like it this way. That's the fun of life. You fall, get up, make mistakes, learn from them, be human and be you.

I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I've finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how I was made, that I don't have to hide it and I don't have to fix it. I'm not broken.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.

Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you.

Tis' better to live your own life imperfectly than to imitate someone else's perfectly.

Go boldly and honestly through the world. Learn to love the fact that there is nobody else quite like you.

Once you can open yourself up to the idea that your defectiveness is not a fact, the healing process can begin to work.

I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I am.

Not everyone you meet is going to like you, and that's okay.

I am who I am and that's it!

Maybe if we all stopped getting so caught up in taking sixty selfies before we post one or reshooting the same video twenty times till it looks flawless, we'd be better off. Life isn't perfect. Why should we pretend that it is online?

I can't help but smile. Win or lose today, I know I've already won. My life is just the way I always wanted it to be. So I just hold on tight, thankful that I finally know where this princess belongs.

Folks who thrive in God's grace give grace easily, but the self-critical person becomes others-critical. We "love" people the way we "love" ourselves, and if we are not good enough, then no one is. We keep ourselves brutally on the hook, plus our husbands, our kids, our friends, our churches, our leaders, anyone "other." When we impose unrealistic expectations on ourselves, it's natural to force them on everyone else.

The best I offer the world is the truth—my highest gift. What the world does with it is not up to me. I am not in charge of outcomes, opinions, assessments. I am not in the business of damage control. When I present a fabricated version of myself—the self who knows all, is ever certain, always steps strong—we all lose, because I cannot keep up with that lie and neither can you.

The best I offer the world is the truth—my highest gift. What the world does with it is not up to me. I am not in charge of outcomes, opinions, assessments. I am not in the business of damage control. When I present a fabricated version of myself—the self who knows all, is ever certain, always steps strong—we all lose, because I cannot keep up with that lie and neither can you. Here is the truth: Sometimes life is complicated.

There is something so marvelous about women comfortable in their own skin.

If you're anorexic, you're doing it wrong." I swat him with a dish towel. "No, no, I mean anorexics look in the mirror, and even if they're eighty pounds, they still see a fat girl. I'm a hundred pounds heavier than I was in high school, my veins are full of creme fraiche, and yet I look in the mirror, take in the hair and makeup, and think, Damn, baby, you fiiine.

But ever since I made the decision to drop a few pounds-way less easy than it sounds, by the way-I've become obsessed with my size and in so doing I've inadvertently allowed my inner critic to have a voice. And you know what? She's a bitch. Like now when I see my underpants in the laundry, I no longer think Soft! Cotton! Sensible! Instead I hear her say Damn, girl, these panties be huge.

Don't compare your beginning to someone else's middle.

DO NOT WASTE YOUR PRECIOUS TIME GIVING ONE SINGLE CRAP ABOUT WHAT ANYBODY ELSE THINKS OF YOU.

Comparison is the fastest way to take all the fun out of life.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.     ââ'¬â€Kurt Cobain; you know who this one is, right? When