Self Acceptance Quotes

Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

Partake of some of life's sweet pleasures. And yes, get comfortable with yourself.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

Until we accept and approve of ourselves, no amount of approval from others will keep us permanently secure.

If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.

Ignore what other people think. Most people aren’t even paying attention to you.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.

I have too many flaws to be perfect. But i have too many blessings to be ungrateful.

I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.

I know of nothing more valuable, when it comes to the all-important virtue of authenticity, than simply being who you are.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow.

I love the fact that I'm bad at [things].

We had better appear what we are, than affect to appear what we are not.

Be that self which one truly is.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Don't settle for a relationship that won't let you be yourself.

Perhaps, I myself am the enemy who needs to be loved.

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am.

Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.

I've never felt like there's just one way to be beautiful. Tall or short, straight hair or curly, it doesn't matter.

I can afford to take a risk in my life. Only the insecure cannot afford to risk failure. The secure can be honest about themselves. They can admit failure. They are able to seek help and try again. They can change

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.

Be Sure you Are Stepping to the Music you Hear - No Matter what Other People Think.

Wholeness is not achieved by cutting off a portion of one’s being, but by integration of the contraries.

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

If you aint like me, you aint gotta like me.

The main hangup in the world today is hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can't face up to the fact of other people being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we're never going to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it's none of their business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what's important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be what they aren't, there would be peace.

Cultivate your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the members of your family for who they are, even though their outlook or style may be miles different from yours. Rabbits don't fly. Eagles don't swim. Ducks look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don't have feathers. Stop comparing. There's plenty of room in the forest.

We should not be much concerned about faults we have the courage to own.

I definitely have body issues, but everybody does. When you come to the realization that everybody does that - even the people that I consider flawless - then you can start to live with the way you are. I've read interviews with some of the most beautiful women who have insecurities. And you look at them and you're like, 'How do you have? Name one thing wrong with yourself,' and they could name a handful.

In school if you're different that's uncool. But I try to maintain confidence in who I am...because...you know...I don't really want to change it.

Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

I'm comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it's stretched. Ha ha.

You are worthy because you were born.

Resist Impulses to Label Yourself with Descriptions that Limit You in Any Way.

You don't have to try, you just have to be.

I am grateful to be a woman. I must have done something great in another life.

The hero is suffered to be himself.

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me.

It is not that I am mad, it is only that my head is different from yours.

There is not a need to prove anything to anyone with your words. Let that which you are - that which you are living - be your clear example to uplift others.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

You will never enjoy life if you do not enjoy yourself.

I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility.

But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself— that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved— what then?

We need to love ourselves first in All our glory and imperfections

Be who you are, and go the whole way.

All right. I'm corny. But I think there's just about a-hundred-and-forty-million people in this country that are just as corny as I am.

I'm thankful that when I go to bed at night, that I have been myself that day. And, I have been myself all the days before that.

You're a wonderful person, Jamie. You're beautiful, you're kind, you're gentle...you're everything that I'd like to be. If people don't like you, or they think you're strange, then that's their problem.

I started making choices based on what I wanted, and didn’t feel like I needed to justify them. If I wanted to cut my hair, I did it. If I wanted to move to New York, I did it. If I wanted to take a spontaneous road trip, I did it. At 24 I decided that my life is enough for me, and I stopped looking for some other piece to complete it.

I know at times I come across like a Neanderthal or a babbling idiot, but I like that person.

I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything.

I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuffed with the stuff that is course, and stuffed with the stuff that is fine.

You cannot enjoy others until you enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.

Be congruent, be authentic, be your true self.