Self Acceptance Quotes

I recognize my gifts and optimize them. I accept my total being and honor all parts of myself.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

Seeking external validation brings disappointment. Validate yourself from within to find true happiness.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.

~ Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

All the external adoration, respect and adulation in the word, can't drown out the internal voices that tell us, we are not good enough and unworthy of; happiness, love and an abundant life. When we need others to tell us were amazing, worthy and lovable, in order to feel good about ourselves, it is never enough. It goes into the bottomless pit where our inherent self-worth should be. It may feel like we are reaching out to receive love, but in actuality, we are seeking external noise to help drown out our negative core beliefs.Love blossoms from the inside out. That is why it is so important to do the work necessary to heal our emotional wounds, to love ourselves and stand strong in who we are. Only then, are we truly free to give and receive love, unconditionally and in abundance.

~ Jaeda Dewalt

Inner beauty, warm-heartedness and compassion, is what brings about peace of mind.

~ Auliq Ice

Self-acceptance is the basis of a happy life.

~ Auliq Ice

We experience happiness on a sensory level that is relatively short-lived. But lasting happiness is related to our state of mind.

~ Auliq Ice

On a mental level, kindness and compassion give rise to lasting joy.

~ Auliq Ice

If in day to day life you lead a good life, honestly, with love, compassion, and less selfishness, then automatically you will find peace.

~ Auliq Ice

The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.

~ Auliq Ice

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

~ Auliq Ice

Those who are truly grateful are deeply moved by the privilege of living.

~ Auliq Ice

For the grateful, there is no room for disappointment; Each moment offers life.

~ Auliq Ice

Happy people tend to be those who take pleasure in simple things.

~ Auliq Ice

Happiness is long-lasting, a condition of the soul, the foundation on which the circumstances of life are experienced, endured, or enjoyed.

~ Auliq Ice

Happiness is the condition of who we are and how we think and what we believe and how we live.

~ Auliq Ice

Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, like… for real, they would eventually turn to vapor. Every person whom I’ve ever loved is trapped inside of my chest. I’ve breathed all of them in so deeply that I’ve nearly choked and died on every soul that I’ve ever given myself to.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

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.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

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?

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever in love with you.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely understand you. I feel you around me even though I can’t exactly describe what I’m feeling. Sometimes things happen to me and I know that you’re there and I’m humbled by the lack of coincidence that exists in the world. Whatever you want from me, it’s yours — just please help me. You know how I get when I lose control, and I find myself constantly being pulled back there these days.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

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.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as it is a violent end and I know the real work hasn’t even started yet.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to be.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

If ever I was running, it was towards you.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stretched and tangled for years — across oceans and lifetimes. I know that it won’t break because our souls are tied.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

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…

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control, but you’re finding yourself — here, tonight… even in this darkness.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

Yoga is not only a process of the integration of the soul, mind, and body for self-improvement, it is a process of self -realization and self -acceptance.

~ Debasish Mridha

We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal