Self Acceptance Quotes

You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

You had better be a round peg in a square hole than a square peg in a square hole. The latter is in for life, while the first is only an indeterminate sentence.

Once you have accepted yourself, it's so much easier to accept other people and their points of view.

If you're not at peace with yourself, you can't be at peace with anyone else.

Do not dwell upon the sins and mistakes of yesterday so exclusively as to have no energy and mind left for living rightly today, and do not think that the sins of yesterday can prevent you from living purely today.

Number of things happen after I was 50. One, you are hopefully secure in what you want to do - which means that you don't spend a lot of time chewing on your knuckles about your reason for being here.Also, you're at your most beautiful. No woman is ever more beautiful than she is at 50.

I learned, when I look in the mirror and tell my story, that I should be myself and not peep whatever everybody is doing.

For a long time I was ashamed of the way I lived. Did I reform, you ask? No. I'm not ashamed anymore.

When I was a teenager I felt like we were always being stereotyped as being really intense and dramatic and passionate and hopelessly romantic and excitable, now in retrospect I think I need to let you know those things are amazing. I hope you never lose those things.

Got to be who you are in this world, no matter what.

You are you. Now, isn't that unpleasant?

Your path is not narrow... so you can't mess it up.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

I've gotten used to being Frank Ocean.

Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.

It's about you, giving yourself permission to be who you are, without giving a rip about what anybody else is thinking about it.

I'm just a person; I like to experience whatever the feeling is and whatever I'm going through.

I'm past doing one chin-up more than I did the day before. I just kind of do what I feel like.

Be yourself and the right people will love you.

Just be yourself, there is no one better.

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

Eventually you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create

What I've learned is not to change who you are, because eventually you're going to run out of new things to become.

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy because of what you have.

Needing approval is like saying 'your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself'.

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

It's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.

There is only one you. God wanted you to be you. Don't you dare change just because you're outnumbered!

Stop Looking for Permission to Be Yourself.The true individual is no more concerned over what others may think of him or her than is the sun troubled by people complaining that it's too warm, or that it shines too bright!

What I find powerful is a person with the confidence to be her own self.

The ultimate comfort zone is within.

I am what I am and that's all that I am and if I'm supposed to be somebody else, why do I look like me?

So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we shouldn't worry about what we're not but to try to focus on what we are and what we do know.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Call me whatever you like; I am who I must be.

You have to be true to who you are.

The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves.

What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

Be yourself. The world worships the original.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.

Everybody has a list of 100 things they would like to change about themselves. But it's all about focusing on the good things.

What will they think of me? Must be put aside for bliss

You can't run away from yourself

As you get older, you're not afraid of doubt. Doubt isn't running the show. You take out all the self-agonizing.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

To sit and contemplate - to remember the faces of women without desire, to be pleased by the great deeds of men without envy, to be everything and everywhere in sympathy and yet content to remain where and what you are.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.

I Love you so much, I don't care what you think.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Zits are beauty marks.

I had already made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with tons of personality, and accepting it made everything a lot easier. If you are lucky, there is a moment in your life when you have some say as to what your currency is going to be. I decided early on it was not going to be my looks. I have spent a lifetime coming to terms with this idea and I would say I am about 15 to 20 percent there.Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.

I'm very secure about my talents and about who I am.