Self Acceptance Quotes

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

~ Sharon Salzberg

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.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.

~ Heath L. Buckmaster

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

~ Henry David Thoreau

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

~ Diane Von Furstenberg

Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

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.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

~ Marilyn Monroe

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

~ Eleanor Roosevelt

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

~ Lucille Ball

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.

~ J.k. Rowling

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.

~ Bell Hooks

Buy or borrow self-improvement books, but don't read them. Stack them around your bedroom and use them as places to rest bowls of cookies.Watch exercise shows on television, but don't do the exercises. Practice believing that the benefit lies in imagining yourself doing the exercises.Don't power walk. Saunter slowly in the sun, eating chocolate, and carry a blanket so you can take a nap.

~ S.a.r.k.

I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Your personal truth is your gift to the world.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I feel like, God expects me to be human. I feel like, God likes me just the way I am: broken and empty and bruised. I feel like, God doesn't look at me and wish that I were something else, because He likes me just this way. I feel like, God doesn't want me to close my eyes and pray for Him to make me holy or for Him to make me pure; because He made me human. I feel like, God already knows I'm human...it is I who needs to learn that.

~ C. Joybell C.

They are called, SELF-worth and SELF-esteem for a reason... we can't let others decide what we are worth, that is so dangerous! Empower yourself!

~ Jaeda Dewalt

Don't let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are.

~ Jaeda Dewalt

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward.

~ Roy Bennett

Those whodisrespect youwith their mouthdon't deserveyour ear.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

I believe that the best leadership is loud authenticity. That is what the world needs now. We don’t need more plastic, Photoshooped perfection. I don’t want people to look at me and wish they could be me. I want people to look at me and see their own potential. I want people to be more accepting of their own failures, imperfections, and struggles because they watch me accept of my own.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Hijo de tigre, no siempre sale pintado. Siempre ahi esa excepción.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?

~ C. Joybell C.

Celebrate who you are in your deepest heart. Love yourself and the world will love you.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Accept yourself: flaws, quirks, talents, secret thoughts, all of it, and experience true liberation.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

One woman filled with self love and self acceptance is a model more super than any cover girl.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

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

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

The most adventurous journey to embark on; is the journey to yourself, the most exciting thing to discover; is who you really are, the most treasured pieces that you can find; are all the pieces of you, the most special portrait you can recognize; is the portrait of your soul.

~ C. Joybell C.

A #loveselfie isn't a picture or a status update. It's an attitude of embracing, accepting, and valuing yourself, exactly as you are in each moment. It's being one hundred percent present with yourself. Try it.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

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

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

When we embrace who we are the world embraces us right back.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

I see myself as a Scottish sky: there are rain clouds, rainbows and sunrays that run and overtake one another, mingle together and dance with each other! You see all of this within seconds of looking up! It’s a living sky, it breathes and it’s real! And I think that when you look at me, you’ll see my rain clouds first, because only after rainclouds can there come the rainbows. You see, if the rainbows come first, then the rainbows aren’t even real, so I think that if people deserve to see my real rainbows, then they will just know that they need to stick around through the rain! Like a Scottish sky, I want to be real and breathing and running. I don’t want to be a clear blue all the time, or a dark grey all the time or have fake rainbows painted onto me; I want to be Scottish.

~ C. Joybell C.

YOU are your own guru. YOU are your own soul mate. YOU are powerful. Take the reigns and drive your carriage home to love.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

A circle's unity and never ending smoothness is how we can aim to feel inside. Smooth, gentle, accepted, no rough edges, only love for all parts of our selves.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Your healthy love for yourself is sexy!

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Embrace your diverse, prismatic colors! They make you uniquely you!

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

We can accept and embrace our pasts as part of the path that shaped who we are now.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

True love begins when you accept yourself in your totality. Then, and only then, can you completely love another.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

An empowered sense of self-love means you truly love and accept yourself as you would a treasured lover or a sweet, wonderful child, and that you do this from a place of strength of character and belief in yourself.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Self-acceptance is pure power.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree