Self-Acceptance Quotes

“Even if our survival skills have become impediments we would like to let go of because they have ceased to serve us, we can still love ourselves with them. In appreciation of our survival, we can be awed at how our resources brought us through, even when these resources were things like indifference, a wall of rage, a cold heart…We learn to embrace ourselves as humans with faults and problems.”

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”

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

“My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.”

“The most important day is the day you decide you’re good enough for you. It’s the day you set yourself free.”

“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.”

“A girl who truly knows herself is a girl that everybody else wants to know.”

“To say "I love you" one must know first how to say the "I".”

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

“Does self-acceptance ultimately require another person, or is there a kind of love that does not dabble in the dream of a perfect twinship?”

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

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

“In order to accept yourself, you must first have some sense of who you are.”

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

“Remember that your role in this experience that we call life is quite significant! Never equate your significance to temporary stuff, or in comparison to others – you’re more than that!~Steele Steele”

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

“POPPY (standing up to Paul): I see family life as invading everyone’s privacy and saying whatever I feel and treating everyone as they’re treasured because they’re my family and thus special as compared to the rest of the world. I see a good family as loud and frantic and intrusive.”

“The basis of everything in the wizards' world rests upon the insight "All this is myself." Therefore, in accepting the world as it is, the wizard views everything in the light of self-acceptance, which is the light of love.”

“You cannot become good enough for your own approval just like you can't become good enough to have hair. You cannot earn your own self-acceptance just like you can't earn your own ears. You can't become what you are. Stop looking out there. Look in the mirror. You're already everything you've ever wanted to be.”

“Love what you are.”