Self Acceptance Quotes

If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I wish that I could rely on something as simple and magnificent as a star for all of my aching questions.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, causing me to bleed out slowly, over things and people and every white surface that I’d ever come across.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

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

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its breathless center.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I want to understand the strings that are tied between me and certain other people and if they really can stretch through infinite time and space without ever breaking. Are soul mates real, and is my life ever going to make sense?

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I wish on one of the stars for divine orchestration and save the rest of them for all of the other girls in the world who will feel like I do tonight.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Standing naked on the beach with all of my secrets between my legs, I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself…

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Each time that I have felt like I might finally be figuring some things out, life has decided to change the rules and I’ve had to start all over again.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

It is not depression or anxiety that truly hurts us. It is our active resistance against these states of mind and body. If you wake up with low energy, hopeless thoughts, and a lack of motivation - that is a signal from you to you. That is a sure sign that something in your mind or in your life is making you sick, and you must attend to that signal. But what do most people do? They hate their depressed feelings. They think Why me? They push them down. They take a pill. And so, the feelings return again and again, knocking at your door with a message while you turn up all the noise in your cave, refusing to hear the knocks. Madness. Open the door. Invite in depression. Invite anxiety. Invite self-hatred. Invite shame. Hear their message. Give them a hug. Accept their tirades as exaggerated mistruths typical of any upset person. Love your darkness and you shall know your light.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

You haunt my days and dreams.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Today Lord I am going to do my best with Your help and for Your glory. I realize that there are many different people in the world with a variety of opinions and expectations. I will concentrate on being a God-pleaser and not a self-pleaser or man-pleaser. The rest I leave in Your hands lord. Grant me favor with You and with men and continue transforming me into the image of Your dear Son. Thank You Lord.

~ Joyce Meyer

I found myself praying: May I love and accept myself just as I am.

~ Tara Brach

Endeavour to appreciate life while you experience it, for some will never experience life again, because they are six feet inside the grave.

~ Auliq Ice

You've got to be able to look at the mirror and smile at yourself. If you can't do that, you've got work to do. You have to learn to get along with yourself, to like yourself, to be proud of yourself. You've got to learn to celebrate yourself. You need to be able to love yourself before you can ever appreciate anyone else who does. You're worth it. Put the work in to have the best relationship with yourself that's possible.

~ Akiroq Brost

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

~ Aberjhani

To love, and be loved, this is the greatest challenge that any of us face in our lives.

~ T. Scott Mcleod

As women, we almost never give ourselves enough credit for what we're capable of, for what we endure and how giving we are. Part of loving yourself is about forgiving yourself - which is something I've always struggled with. It's the messy parts that make us human, so we should embrace them too - pat ourselves on the back for getting through them rather than being angry for having gotten into them in the first place. Because loving yourself is ultimately about self-acceptance, about embracing every part of who you are. And that's never just one thing.

~ Jennifer Lopez

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.

~ Michelle Cruz-Rosado

While we are all in the process of becoming as ever-changing, ever-evolving beings... it's essential to remember that we are also enough, just as we are, right now, in this moment. When we are able to accept ourselves as we are, we are better able to accept others, as they are. Personal growth thrives in an environment of love, acceptance and forgiveness.

~ Jaeda Dewalt

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

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing. There are wars and defeats and victories of human race that are not military and that are not recorded in the annals of history. Remember that while you're trying to decide what do. - Archer Sloane from the book Stoner.

~ John Williams

When we accept ourselves as we are, we aren't settling or keeping the problem in place. We're showing love and compassion for ourselves-for our feelings, our situation, and our history.

~ Nick Ortner

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!

~ Matt Broadway-Horner

It doesn't matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Be kind to yourself. Remember that when you abuse yourself, you will experience the anger, regret, and apathy of the bully as well as the depression, anxiety, and insecurity of the victim. Whatever you do, be kind to yourself.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Embracing human frailty, fallibility, and heartbreaking aloneness is crucial for any person seeking to attain self-actualization and self-realization.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

I suppose the test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found that one can never please the people they wanted to please.

~ Willa Cather

Several times in my ministry people have expressed the fear that self-acceptance will abort the ongoing conversion process and lead to a life of spiritual laziness and moral laxity. Nothing could be more untrue. The acceptance of self does not mean to be resigned to the status quo. On the contrary, the more fully we accept ourselves, the more successfully we begin to grow. Love is a far better stimulus than threat or pressure.

~ Brennan Manning

Without appreciation (for yourself, others and life itself) there is no growth

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

I was an abusive, selfish, needy, angry asshole. Now I'm just kind of selfish, a little less angry, occasionally needy, with flights of asshole. I've grown.

~ Marc Maron

In order to grow sometimes we must cease striving to meet other people’s expectations and begin establishing new goals that develop our personal potential. If we live a life to satisfy all the direct or implicit anticipations of other people, we end up living a life full of regret because we failed to develop into a complete manifestation of our being.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Self acceptance is one of the most difficult and one of the most rewarding goals you can accomplish.

~ Melchor Lim

At times we convince ourselves, we have something to lose but in fact, who you are and your being remains intact.

~ Unarine Ramaru

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

~ Mark Twain

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

~ C.g. Jung