Accepting Yourself Quotes

Accept yourself. Love yourself just as you are. Your finest work, your best moments, your joy, peace, and healing come when you love yourself. You give a great gift to the world when you do that. You give others permission to do the same: to love themselves. Revel in self love. Roll in it. Bask in it, as you would the sunshine. ~ Melody Beattie

You want society to accept you; but you can't even accept yourself. ~ Michael Fassbender

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things. ~ Leo Buscaglia

It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant. ~ Jane Austen

Self-acceptance means fully accepting yourself no matter what your traits or how you perform or achieve. It does not mean self-esteem, self-confidence, or self-regard. These terms imply that you accept yourself because you perform or behave in a specific way or because people accept you based on your achievements. Self-acceptance means that you non-judgmentally accept yourself for who you are without rating or evaluating yourself, or requiring the approval of others. ~ Lee A. Wilkinson

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. ~ Lynn Redgrave

You are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so fulfill the moment with your own self-joy. ~ Frederick Lenz

The word dialectic (in dialectical behavior therapy) means to balance and compare two things that appear very different or even contradictory. In dialectical behavior therapy, the balance is between change and acceptance (Linehan, 1993a). You need to change the behaviors in your life that are creating more suffering for yourself and others while simultaneously also accepting yourself the way you are. This might sound contradictory, but it's a key part of this treatment. Dialectical behavior therapy depends on acceptance and change, not acceptance or change. ~ Matthew McKay

All your life you tried to be good enough for somebody else, and you left yourself last. You sacrificed your personal freedom to live according to somebody else's point of view. You tried to be good enough for your mother, your father, your teachers, your beloved, your children, your religion, and society. After trying for so many years, you try to be good enough for yourself, and you find out that you're not good enough for yourself. Why not put yourself first, maybe for the first time in your life? You can relearn how to love yourself by accepting yourself, unconditionally. And you can start by projecting unconditional love to the authentic you. ~ Miguel Ruiz

Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person. ~ Denis Waitley

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. ~ Auliq Ice

[Monty] talks about Fritz Perls and the Gestalt theory. The here and now is the only time that exists. And being yourself. Not accepting yourself, not taking yourself for granted. Being yourself. Your self. Monty defines 'normality' as a contententment with who you are. ~ Antony Sher

This body is yours. No one can ever take it from you, if only you will accept yourself, claim it again
your arms, your spine, your ribs, the small of your back. It's all yours. All this bounty, all this beauty, all this strength and grace is yours. This garden is yours. Take it back. Take it back. ~ Jean Hegland

Self motivation leads to acceptance of thyself. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful. ~ Rajneesh

I think living is serious. Living well, accepting yourself, using your talents to the fullest, enjoying yourself, that's all serious and important ... But I think makeup and fashion should not be taken that seriously ... You should have fun making up for a party. You should have fun wearing a sexy dress. When you're beautiful it should give you pleasure. ~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Accepting yourself is the first step toward improvement. ~ Ruth Cardello

Self-esteem does not mean feeling good all the time. Self-esteem means loving yourself even when you feel badly ... even when you make a mistake. It means loving yourself even when you're depressed. It means that you accept yourself fully. ~ Jack Canfield

To gain the acceptance of your peers is an admirable task, but to truly accept yourself requires a much higher standard. ~ Wes Fesler

By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy. ~ Jane Roberts

Beauty is about Accepting yourself for who you are. It's about feeling secure about yourself. It's about feeling so blessed everyday that we are given the chance to live. All those beautiful feeling and positive energy inside you, now that is what makes you beautiful. ~ Davina Veronica

Stand strong in your worth and don't let anyone talk you out of it. ~ Mandy Hale

You can change your life with a simple shift of attention. But to make that simple shift, you have to find your heart. It's the only way. Accept yourself, then transcend yourself. ~ Dan Millman

If you are going to accept anything, accept who you are. ~ J.R. Rim

Accepting yourself as you are is an act of civil disobedience. ~ Francesca Martinez

There's no freedom like the freedom that comes from accepting yourself. ~ Camila Cabello

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

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

Real confidence comes from knowing and accepting yourself- your strengths and your limitations -in contrast to depending on affirmation from others. ~ Judith M Bardwick

The moment that you accept life and your life as it is, is the moment that you will start to change your life and this magical life itself. ~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

I think one important thing that happens in the studio is accepting yourself as the enemy and painting from that point of view. So instead of pointing the finger outward and passing judgment, instead, you start with yourself as your own worst enemy. ~ Lisa Yuskavage

Low self-confidence is simply a problem of Awareness. Once you are aware of the Truth about yourself, you will be able to understand why you are the way you are and, most importantly, learn to love and accept yourself. ~ Robert Anthony

The inability to love and accept yourself and your humanity is at the heart of many illnesses. To be loved and accepted, you must start by loving yourself. If you have traits that you consider unlovable, you must love them anyway ... it's a paradox. ~ Christiane Northrup

You will never learn anything new unless you are ready to accept yourself with your limitations. You must accept the fact that you are capable in some directions and limited in others, and you must develop your capabilities. ~ Bruce Lee

One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear. Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights. ~ Rajneesh

When you accept yourself, the Universe accepts you. ~ Laozi

You don't need to wait for someone else to notice your talents before nourishing them. You don't need others to accept you to feel accepted. You don't need to wait. You can begin, at any moment, to work on noticing, nourishing, and accepting yourself. You can work on being a better friend to your reflection. You can start listening to yourself like you wish other people would. You can become curious about who you are. You can begin to learn the language of your mind and body so that you can decode it, understand it, speak it. You can work on understanding yourself instead of always trying to make yourself into someone else. ~ Vironika Tugaleva

You cannot ask someone to like you or love you more than you like or love yourself. YOU have to set the standard. ~ Mandy Hale

True success is accepting yourself for what you have to offer rather than for what you cannot do. ~ Dave Shepp

In the end when you accept yourself for who you are and you work with what you've got, you couldn't be more beautiful because you're confident and everyone notices. ~ Lily Collins

Lao Tzu says: "Accept yourself. Non-acceptance is the root of all the trouble." None of us accept ourselves. The more a person doesn't accept himself, the greater a mahatma he looks to others to be. We are our greatest enemy. If we had our way, we would cut ourselves to pieces in order to remove what was unacceptable. ~ Rajneesh

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

Knowing who you are is half the peace of accepting yourself. ~ Christina Engela

When you TRULY accept yourself, everyone else will do the same. Relationships "mirror" what we believe about ourselves. ~ Shannon Tanner

Accept yourself. But realize your behaviors can be bad. ~ David D. Burns

I'm a big believer in accepting yourself the way you are and not really worrying about it. ~ Jennifer Lawrence

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. ~ Shunryu Suzuki

Don't compare yourself with someone else's version of happy or thin. Accepting yourself burns the most calories. ~ Caroline Rhea

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

A lot of people think that in order to be attractive, you need to appear cool, together or confident. But REAL confidence comes from accepting yourself as you are, and sharing the real you. When you share you do so simply in the interest of being transparent and not trying to get a certain favorable response. Letting go of trying to control other peoples' responses to you is one of the greatest confidence-builders I know of. And from my own experience, I have come to the conclusion that I am most lovable when I am most transparent. ~ Susan Campbell

Accept yourself as you are. And that is the most difficult thing in the world, because it goes against your training, education, your culture. ~ Rajneesh

LOVING KINDNESS The first element of true love is loving kindness. The essence of loving kindness is being able to offer happiness. You can be the sunshine for another person. You can't offer happiness until you have it for yourself. So build a home inside by accepting yourself and learning to love and heal yourself. Learn how to practice mindfulness in such a way that you can create moments of happiness and joy for your own nourishment. Then you have something to offer the other person. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Self-love, self-esteem. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection. ~ Gautama Buddha

I am perfect, I love and accept myself as I am. ~ Avis J. Williams

I learned that accepting others and accepting myself are two sides of the same coin; you can't love and accept yourself without doing the same for others. ~ Steve Pavlina

I think the most difficult thing about coming out is just getting to that place where you're comfortable with who you are and you're sayin' hey this is ok and just accepting yourself and not caring what other people think. Because if you don't have that confidence in who you are then, if things don't go the way you wish that they will, you know if people aren't accepting then they can easily tear you down if you're not prepared and comfortable with who you are. ~ Wanda Sykes

If you can't accept something, you need to change it.
If you can't change it, you need to accept it. ~ Molly Burke

I believe the only limitations are the ones that we accept. ~ Debbi Fields

Emotional turmoil can be a powerful catalyst to reconnect us with our divine nature. It propels us into a journey of self discovery and urges us to learn how to love and accept our entire being. ~ Debbie Ford

For to wish to forget how much you loved someone - and then, to actually forget - can feel, at times, like the slaughter of a beautiful bird who chose, by nothing short of grace, to make a habitat of your heart. I have heard that this pain can be converted, as it were, by accepting "the fundamental impermanence of all things." This acceptance bewilders me: sometimes it seems an act of will; at others, of surrender. Often I feel myself to be rocking between them (seasickness). ~ Maggie Nelson

Finally I am coming to the conclusion that my highest ambition is to be what I already am. That I will never fulfill my obligation to surpass myself unless I first accept myself, and if I accept myself fully in the right way, I will already have surpassed myself. ~ Thomas Merton

Theoretical physicists accept the need for mathematical beauty as an act of faith ... For example, the main reason why the theory of relativity is so universally accepted is its mathematical beauty. ~ Paul Dirac

There are people who live lives little different than the beasts,and I don't mean that badly. I mean that they accept whatever happens day to day without struggle or question or regret. To them things just are, like the earth and sky and seasons. ~ Celeste De Blasis

When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves. ~ Fred Rogers

We're not here to get over our humanness, but rather to accept and make peace with it ... and to remember our Divine nature. ~ Sonia Choquette

The Gift belongs to whoever chooses to accept it. It is enough to believe and not to be afraid to make a few mistakes. ~ Paulo Coelho

The corollary of the possibility of conceiving other worlds - this one being, de facto, only a domain - is the impossibility of moving beyond the world we inhabit and the imperious necessity of accepting its frontiers as limits. ~ Michel Foucault

There is no question that a very large number of people have to move; you cannot live where the water comes over you. I have not heard one suggestion on how we are going to move one hundred million people out of low-lying areas and what countries would be willing to accept them. ~ Walter Munk

We're not very accepting of people who act strangely. ~ Chester Brown

There is divine beauty in learning ... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you. ~ Elie Wiesel

I'm a fan of the truth ... even if it's painfully hard to accept. ~ Dan Brown

America has shown its evil intentions, and the proud Iraqi people cannot accept it. They must defend their rights by any means they see fit. ~ Muqtada Al Sadr

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself. ~ Max Frisch

Being at one with everything just means accepting that the future is always going to be unsure and learning to find ways to be okay with the uncontrollable sequence of events. ~ Mohadesa Najumi

Islamic terrorism is not common crime but an act of war. Jihad is war. For the Jihadi it is a war; we must also accept it as such. Home grown Muslim militants must be treated, not just as enemy combatants but as traitors. ~ Ali Sina

As a child, I used to feel much more American than Iranian. Like everyone else at school, I pledged allegiance to the flag. However, after returning to Iran, sadly, I learned about a very different America, an America that most Americans have no idea exists. For the first couple of years this was hard to accept, and it was really painful in some ways. ~ Mohammad Marandi

Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

Pride is a mental factor causing us to feel higher or superior to others. Even our study of dharma can be the occasion for the delusion of pride to arise if we think our understanding is superior to that of everyone else. Pride is harmful because it prevents us from accepting fresh knowledge from a qualified teacher. Just as a pool of water cannot collect on the tip of a mountain, so too a reservoir of understanding cannot be established in a mind falsely elevated by pride. ~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you're supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you. ~ Ingrid Betancourt

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die. ~ James Taylor

There is always magic to be summoned at any point. I love to live in a world of magic, but not a fake world of magic. We all really basically have a lot of magic ... It's only those of us who choose to accept it, that really understand it. It's there for everyone. That's the only thing that I feel I am able to give to people and that's why I know that they respond to me because I try to give them only their own magic ... not mine, but theirs ~ Stevie Nicks

There was an idea of accepting everyone; there was no sense of exclusion. ~ Bill Pullman

Part of living in a free society is accepting that no idea is beyond being challenged or ridiculed, and that nothing is more stifling to free expression than being afraid to upset or offend. ~ Jamie Bartlett

Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard for the expected end-state should not be lowered. ~ Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Accepting trial and error means accepting error. It means taking problems in our stride when a decision doesn't work out, whether through luck or misjudgment. And that is not something human brains seem to be able to do without a struggle. ~ Tim Harford

How can such impoverished children laugh? How can prisoners sing with joy? They rise above by accepting that certain events are beyond their control and beyond their understanding too, and then focusing instead on what they can understand and control. ~ Nick Vujicic

The rich landlord is he who collects with sternness, who accepts no excuse, and will have his own. There are moments of irritation and of real bitterness against him, but there is still admiration, because he is rich and successful. ~ Jane Addams