Self Acceptance Quotes

That just seems to be the way we’re built.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit

Life is short. Things can change very suddenly. Make the best of every situation. Look for the silver lining. Maintain a positive mindset. Remain optimistic. Never give up hope. Savor every day you are given. Live with gratitude. Appreciate even the smallest things. Genuinely do the best you can, and once you do, don't dimish this by undermining your efforts by whatever limitations you face. Acceptance can be hard at times, but it is necessary to keep moving forward. In order to deal with situations as they come in the best manner possible, we must let go of things we have no control over. Energy must go towards the here and now. Be cognizant of your blessings, of how precious life is. Live with gratitude and appreciate every moment.

for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.

Choosing to accept yourself is a political act. An act of liberation.

But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.

Glory in your small dreams, because inside them something bigger may emerge.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

I wish that love could be broken down the way it breaks me down.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them – that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept oneself as one is, without fear, or envy, or distaste; and to recognise and accept the conditions under which one lives, also without fear or envy, or distaste. When you do this, you shall be free.

Deeply respecting yourself is the first step toward having a deep respect for others.

Life's greatest challenge are the manifestations of our dreams.

When we accept ourselves for what we are, we decrease our hunger for power or the acceptance of others because our self-intimacy reinforces our inner sense of security. We are no longer preoccupied with being powerful or popular. We no longer fear criticism because we accept the reality of our human limitations. Once integrated, we are less often plagued with the desire to please others because simply being true to ourselves brings lasting peace. We are grateful for life and we deeply appreciate and love ourselves.

In the inner courtroom of my mind, mine is the only judgment that counts.

The question isn't whether the world is perfect.The real question to consider is: If it were, would you still be in it?

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…

What self-acceptance does is open up more possibilities of succeeding because you aren't fighting yourself along the way.

You work so hard to fix yourself, but maybe what you need isn't another tactic, another book, another expert, another five-step plan. Maybe, you don't need to be fixed. Maybe, what's really holding you back is the idea that you need to be fixed. Maybe you just need to let yourself play instead of always making yourself do homework.

If you think my waistline defines my worth, you are not worth my time anyways.

No more looking at a wall and pretending it's a mirror. No more shelving fiction in the non-fiction section. No more thinking I could get away with it.

Gratitude turns disappointment into lessons learned, discoveries made, alternatives explored, and new plans set in motion.

If our focus is on how we are supposed to feel then we deny ourselves the joy of freedom in how we truly feel.

You are you, no one else is you, you are the right you, and the right you, is the you that you love.

It has long been my motto that if you cannot get your act together... then the very least you can do is try to make your act entertaining.

That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away.

I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’ve known, since you were a very little girl, what your life is meant to be about…

To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.

During my life journey I've discovered an interesting thing once you stop seeking outside you discover what already resides within.

I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.

A person must make peace with oneself before they will find peace with the world.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.

The odds are, you highly underestimate how awesome you are. Stop doing that.

We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.

No one knows your truth but you. If you're secure in yourself, no one and no(thing) can touch you.

Either nobody's perfect,or everyone is.

If you go to war with your mind, you will always be at war.

Over the last few years, my comfort level with how I look has improved. My age has helped. You get used to yourself and accept yourself.

Never believe you are the best, but believe you are one of the best.

Breathtaking, splendid, wondrous, sublime, all those words describe you, exactly as you are. You are a work of art! Enjoy your beauty!

Its not the falling down that counts but what you do next that counts the most. Don't spend your time on your knees if you have fallen, instead get up and dust your knees clean and walk!

I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.

Do not allow your resentment towards negative in this era to blind you into spiting yourself. We were made unique and should celebrate each other's life and the uniqueness that defines us.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and then lead us to our ultimate destinies?

n our perfection-obsessed, air-brushed society, it can be tempting to measure our self-worth against its set of impossible standards. However, organic beauty is in the flaws that make us vulnerable, human and fallible. We are here to learn, evolve and grow. We do not need to become perfect to be worthy of love, there is no such thing. We can not love others when we are withholding love and acceptance from ourselves. We can not criticize ourselves and then reach with open arms to give and receive love from others. It has to start from within, radiating outward. We need to learn how to be unconditionally loving, accepting and forgiving of ourselves, first, if we wish to forge healthy and loving relationships with others.

Winning or losing achieves the same result--change.

Accept only the divine self.

The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.

One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others. There was a time when I felt lousy about my over-forty body, saw myself as too fat, too this, or too that. Yet I fantasized about finding a lover who would give me the gift of being loved as I am. It is silly, isn't it, that I would dream of someone else offering to me the acceptance and affirmation I was withholding from myself. This was a moment when the maxim "You can never love anybody if you are unable to love yourself" made clear sense. And I add, "Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.

We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it.

Be real, rare, refreshing you! Fan the flames of self love and ignite your light!

I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.

I’m nothing great. But I’m a rose… I’m a rose whether I’m admired or not, I’m a rose whether anyone’s crazy about me or not… Like I said, nothing great. Just a rose… But, do you know what it means to be a rose, my friend? Being a rose means ‘freedom.’ It means not existing by the praises of Others or not ceasing to exist by their disapproval.

I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me.