Quotes About Self-acceptance

You see yourself as very average, ordinary. And there is nothing ordinary about you, Rachel. (Something Borrowed)

Estoy aprendiendo que la perfección no es lo que importa. De hecho, es precisamente lo que te puede destruir, si se lo permites.

Suddenly I could imagine all the things my body might do when I wasn't there to stop it and I felt so vile they might as well have happened. Maybe they had; they just hadn't left marks. I thought about a future full of blank spaces, and I knew I couldn't bear it. If that was the future, I had to escape it.

What's wrong with you, girl, that you would make yourself over again?

Nowadays 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.

Holly frowned at her. Glad to see you've forgiven yourself so quickly. Harboring feelings of guilt can have a negative affect on mental health. Child geniuses, growled Holly. Genii, said Minerva.

I have it on very good authority that I have a lovely pee-pee, so lay off.

Do not try to seem wise to others. If you want to live a wise life, live it on your own terms and in your own eyes.

When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn't have to look outside themselves for approval.

Put up with being laughed at on occasion; look around you, and give yourself a good shaking to find out who you really are.

Do not worry if others criticize or laugh at you, for their opinions are not your concern.

People don't complete us. We complete ourselves. If we haven't the power to complete ourselves, the search for love becomes a search for self-annihilation; and then we try to convince ourselves that self-annihilation is love.

So there were people who got up at noon, pared their toenails, and sat naked in hotel rooms without regarding each day as an apocalypse. Amazing! If someone had burst into my room and found me naked and paring my nails, I would have died of shock. Or would I? Maybe I was stronger than I thought.

Why should anyone be so grateful for acceptance unless he doubts that he is acceptable, and why should a young, educated and successful couple have such doubts, if not due to the fact that they cannot accept themselves because they are not themselves.

Meditation is like sobriety in that it doesn't make everything perfect but helps us be okay with how everything is.

I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit.

You can't respect yourself if you're afraid to be who you are.

When I receive letters from girls that say, 'You give me confidence ' I think, 'Wow, this is amazing.' That's my goal: to let people know it's truly what's on the inside that counts.

I want to say to the new guys here, look, it's okay to process your shit however you want to. It's your shit. It's no one else's shit. As long as you're not hurting someone else. Your hell is yours and you get to decide, okay? You get to decide when you're ready. It's important that I say this, though: It's not your fault, whatever happened to you. It's not your fault. But healing your own pain does belong to you now.

Ceux qui ne pourront pas assumer leur propre diversité se retrouveront parfois parmi les plus virulents des tueurs identitaires, s'acharnant sur ceux qui représentent cette part d'eux-mêmes qu'ils voudraient faire oublier. Une "haine de soi" dont on a vu de nombreux exemples à travers l'Histoire...

Whitman said, 'I am as bad as the worst but, thank God, I am as good as the best.' You ought to spend more time with people who know how bad they are.

All I ever wanted in my life was to be treated as an individual. I have succeeded, to some extent. At least I'm sure that in the Lord's eyes, I am an individual. I am not a "colored" person, or a "Negro" person, in God's eyes. I am just me! The Lord won't hold it against me that I'm colored because He made me that way! He thinks I am beautiful! And so do I, even with all my wrinkles! I am beautiful! -Bessie

I think, for me, I need to be myself." Another pause. "And I've never been a kind of a hyperactive, runaround kind of person. I think one of the greatest gifts that we can give anybody is the gift of one more honest adult in that person's life—whether [the recipient] be a child or an adult. "And so, for me, being quiet and slow is being myself, and that is my gift.

guess," he said thoughtfully. "I mean… it's not like… it's not like he's going to be anything other than Deacon, right?