Self-Acceptance Quotes

"If people don't like who you are, they aren't meant to be in your life."

"I believe that beauty means being comfortable with who you are."

"If I'm going to be 'too' anything, 'too cute' is fine. I love puppies. So what? Who hates puppies?"

"I'm a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting."

"You just have to be you."

"I know I'm different and I don't fit in to any kind of generic mould."

"I've always been someone who believes in being real and embraced my imperfections with pride rather than covering it up."

"Everyone is not going to like me and I'm okay with that."

"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)"

"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself."

Virginia Woolf

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."

“I exist as I am, that is enough.”

“In the real world, I kind of thrived a little bit. The things that were awkward about me at school, like being hyper passionate... I realised, "Oh, I'm my own person, and I have my own idiosyncrasies and nuances that I don't mind."

“My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.”

“I'm comfortable in my own skin, no matter how far it's stretched.”

“We cannot live being obsessed with what other people think about us. It's impossible to live like that. Not even God managed to please the entire world.”

"You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves."

Mary Oliver

"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion."

"To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself."

Thich Nhat Hanh

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change."

Carl Rogers