Self Acceptance Quotes

What would happen if you stopped fighting, and gave yourself permission to feel? Not just the good things, but everything?

~ R.j. Anderson

It should be some kind of goal to be absolutely clear about your past experiences and have let them all go and accepted them in full.

~ Auliq Ice

It has long been my motto that if you cannot get your act together... then the very least you can do is try to make your act entertaining.

~ Becky Johnson

Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

~ Max Ehrmann

It is the lies he's telling her - as he has been, Nassun understands suddenly, her whole life - that really break her heart. He's said that he loves her, after all, but that obviously isn't true. He cannot love an orogene, and that is what she is. He cannot be an orogene's father, and that is why he constantly demands she be something other than what she is.

~ N.k. Jemisin

Not all experience the same sentiment while doing the same exact activity.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

That's an animal fable about humility. If you survive your mistake, you must learn from it. Accept that you're fragile, vulnerable, and sometimes stupid. Realize that you're not immortal and you've got to take care of yourself. And then laugh it off and fly away.

~ Marc Maron

Home is the place I can live with myself, without hating myself.

~ Peggy Lampman

When we accept ourselves for what we are, we decrease our hunger for power or the acceptance of others because our self-intimacy reinforces our inner sense of security. We are no longer preoccupied with being powerful or popular. We no longer fear criticism because we accept the reality of our human limitations. Once integrated, we are less often plagued with the desire to please others because simply being true to ourselves brings lasting peace. We are grateful for life and we deeply appreciate and love ourselves.

~ Brennan Manning

In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

I am here. I am in the present tense. I'm not always here, and sometimes here is a very difficult place. Sometimes it is a labyrinth, or a Minotaur, or a rope I can neither let go of nor follow. It's hard to find the right words, but I guess I would say that it's something like feeling the floor. And that it is my privilege to feel it.

~ Meg Howrey

We must each ascertain our own way to quantify the world. We can choose to peer at life harshly or benevolently. The prism that we select to view the world ultimately is the same standard that we employ to judge ourselves.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

A person archives self-realization by engaging in deliberate contemplative acts that serve to unify of all aspects of the self. To deny part of the self, a person risks spiritual decay.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

To be alive simply means to have faith, one has faith that the air one breathes will sustain one, hence being alive without the other kind of faith will be counterproductive to the reason one is alive.

~ Auliq Ice

The peak of happiness is attained when a person has accepted to be what he is.

~ Ogwo David Emenike

I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

Always look at the function, its not what you did but why do you do it? Once you find the why then you walk through another door

~ Matt Broadway-Horner

It takes strength to be proud of yourself and to accept yourself when you know that you have something out of the ordinary about you.

~ Abigail Tarttelin

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

~ Lao Tzu

If you go to war with your mind, you will always be at war.

~ T. Scott Mcleod

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Identifying as a writer is a matter of self-acceptance. It's not a thing that can be given to you, or bestowed upon you. You are a writer if you write. That's it. If what you are seeking is to be acknowledged as a writer by other people, many of them strangers, you're in for a demoralizing journey. It is a silly club where those who have been 'accepted' are loathe to permit others into. It's sort of like how we Americans love denying our own immigrant origins while railing against immigration.

~ Vincent Louis Carrella

Winning or losing achieves the same result--change.

~ Shannon L. Alder

POPPY: Another man might have pressured me to change, mature, maybe even shut up occasionally. Emmett finds me perfect the way I am.

~ Bijou Hunter

The highest degree of human attainment comes when a person is blissfully at peace with his or her own nature and the natural world.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit

~ E.e. Cummings

I laugh at myself. I don't take myself completely seriously. I think that's another quality that people have to hold on to... you have to laugh, especially at yourself.

~ Madonna

And lose my cock, balls and prostate? Are you kidding me? Honey, I’m still all man. I’m just a man with decoration,” Tommy had explained before turning with a flounce and practically floating out of the room in his heels.

~ Vicktor Alexander

We fitted together like the two halves of an oyster-shell. I was Narcissus, embracing the pond in which I was about to drown. However much we had to hide our love, however guarded we had to be about our pleasure, I could not long be miserable about a thing so very sweet. Nor, in my gladness, could I quite believe that anybody would be anything but happy for me if only they knew.

~ Sarah Waters

Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes in there is no solution. In this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Understand yourself, accept yourself, but do not be yourself.

~ Luke Rhinehart

The price tag that you put on your soul will determine the people and circumstances in which you find yourself.

~ Shannon L. Alder

There are, literally, thousands of people all around the world who need nothing more than to meet someone just like you. To spend your time pretending to be someone else is just as senseless and fear-driven as spending your time speaking to people who don’t understand you. Find your tribe. Let yourself be seen. You are already someone’s hero.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

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

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

~ Dalai Lama Xiv

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be. You are too young to know this. You are still becoming. Not being.

~ John Fowles

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

~ Brené Brown

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

~ Joan Didion