Accepting Yourself Quotes

“It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
― Germany Kent

“So you're a little weird? Work it! A little different? OWN it! Better to be a nerd than one of the herd!”
― Mandy Hale

“Outer beauty pleases the EYE. Inner beauty captivates the HEART.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“Nora had always had a problem accepting herself. From as far back as she could remember, she'd had the sense that she wasn't enough. Her parents who both had their own insecurities, had encouraged that idea.
She imagined, now, what it would be like to accept herself completely. Every mistake she had ever made. Every mark on her body. Every dream she had ever made. Every mark on her body. Every dream she hadn't reached or pain she had felt. Every lust or longing she had suppressed.
She imagined accepting it all. The way she accepted nature. The way she accepted a glacier or a puffin or the breach of a whale.
She imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying her best.
And in doing so, she imagined what it was like to be free.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“Maybe it’s NOT Maybelline. Maybe you were just born with it.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

“Invisible

She scanned through the magazine
for girls who looked like her
with deeper hues,
flat nose, and thick hair.

The day she turned fifteen
she scrubbed herself with bleach
while screaming for God,
whispering over and over again
"the darker the skin,
the deeper the struggle"
releasing a sigh
that made her soul shake.”
― Ijeoma Umebinyuo, Questions for Ada

“No human being is ever going to love you more than you love yourself.”
― Avis J. Williams

“It may sound paradoxical, but strength comes from vulnerability. You have to ask the question to get the answer, even though asking the question means you didn't know.”
― Majid Kazmi, The First Dancer: How to be the first among equals and attract unlimited opportunities

“I am perfect, I love and accept myself as I am.”
― Avis Williams, The Psychic Mind: A Practical Guide to Psychic Development & Spiritual Growth

“If you can't accept something, you need to change it.
If you can't change it, you need to accept it.”
― Molly Burke

“The true dwellers help you embrace
the darkness in yourself and wield it at will.
It is never belittling but empowering.”
― Harshita Gottipati, Born A Free Spirit

“Hello? Testing? My name is Jonathan Collins. I am seventeen years old. Today is... some day in July 1993. And I am okay. Scratch that, I am more than okay. I am...
I am...
I AM.”
― James Brandon, Ziggy, Stardust and Me

“The soul accepts the mystery within and all around, immersing itself in it, celebrating it.”
― Jay Woodman

“The entire quest is for acceptance. You run from pillar to post for being accepted as you are. This quest ends only when you realize that the most important in life is to accept yourself totally, wholly and completely. Unfortunately, that is a long drawn process and it takes time to reach that level. However, once you reach that stage, you are at entire peace with yourself.”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra

“Here is the voice of my main Character in my Talon book series, I’ll let her introduce herself to you:
My name is Matica and I am a special needs child with a growth disability. I am stuck in the body of a two year old, even though I am ten years old when my story begins in the first book of the Talon series, TALON, COME FLY WITH ME. Because of that disability, (I am saying ‘that’ disability, not ‘my’ disability because it’s a thing that happens to me, nothing more and because I am not accepting it as something bad. I can say that now after I learned to cope with it.) I was rejected by the local Indians as they couldn’t understand that that condition is not a sickness and so it can’t be really cured. It’s just a disorder of my body.
But I never gave up on life and so I had lots of adventures roaming around the plateau where we live in Peru, South America, with my mother’s blessings. But after I made friends with my condors I named Tamo and Tima, everything changed. It changed for the good. I was finally loved. And I am the hero and I embrace my problem. In better words: I had embraced my problem before I made friends with my condors Tamo and Tima. I held onto it and I felt sorry for myself and cried a lot, wanting to run away or something worse. But did it help me? Did it become better? Did I grow taller? No, nothing of that helped me.
I didn’t have those questions when I was still in my sorrow, but all these questions came to me later, after I was loved and was cherished. One day I looked up into the sky and saw the majestic condors flying in the air. Here and now, I made up my mind. I wanted to become friends with them. I believed if I could achieve that, all my sorrow and rejection would be over.
And true enough, it was over. I was loved. I even became famous. And so, if you are in a situation, with whatever your problem is, find something you could rely on and stick to it, love that and do with that what you were meant to do. And I never run from conflicts.”
― Gigi Sedlmayer

“When you TRULY accept yourself, everyone else will do the same. Relationships "mirror" what we believe about ourselves.”
― Shannon Tanner, Worthy: The POWER of Wholeness

“God is love. God wants us to accept and love ourselves for who we are. Not to feel in fear of who we are.”
― Avis J. Williams

“If you are going to accept anything, accept who you are.”
― J.R. Rim

“Sometimes people with the greatest depth, appear to be like fish out of water.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“I had spent all that time wishing I could magically get better, when I just had to make things better for myself. I had to stop trying to be something I wasn't. I had to stop hating myself and thinking about all the ways I was wrong. I had to stop calling myself Psycho Sara.

My name was Sara Malvern, and I wasn't very normal at all.”
― Wesley King, Sara and the Search for Normal

“When you grow up never being good enough, every day's a compromise between what you want to be -- and what you are.”
― John Jackson Miller, Star Wars Omnibus: Knights of the Old Republic, Volume 3

“Let people feel the weight of who you really are, and let them fucking deal with it."

The spot on my forehead where he touched me is tingling. I reach up and rub it. The weight of who I am. It isn't my responsibility to deal with it. It is theirs. Muslim is right. I am, what I am, what I am. Stay or leave.”
― Tarryn Fisher, F*ck Love

“We can not paint that in a more positive way if it is already negative, we have to take it that way and think of other means for reaching there.”
― Oscar Auliq-Ice

“Free your mind and be in flow of life's ups and downs. Be accepting of wherever you are on your journey”
― Karon Waddell

“Real happiness comes into your life when you accept yourself as you are.”
― Nitin Namdeo

“Self-love, self-esteem.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Be aware of your intrinsic energies - that is what you are made of! ”
― Ramana Pemmaraju

“Acceptance is usually one of the most trying learning experiences. Some things may appear impossible to overlook or get past but therein lies the absolute peace of mind. The world won't adjust by our pretty wishes or skillful hands. Gotta give up control sometimes.”
― Chinonye J. Chidolue

“We trade authenticity for attachment and this becomes our ideal identity–our default avatar. We try to prove it by behaving in alignment with our ideal identity, that we are worthy of being loved and accepted. We also receive it from those around us, information on what loses us that acceptance, love, and approval, and so these become our shadow selves–our unwanted identities.”
― Tanya Valentin, When She Wakes, She Will Move Mountains - 5 Steps to Reconnecting With Your Wild Authentic Inner Queen

“The day we accept ourselves is the day of our resurrection.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Handcrafted Humanity: 100 Sonnets For A Blunderful World