Self Acceptance Quotes

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Either nobody's perfect,
or everyone is.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Acceptance is the vessel of realization.

Gautama Buddha

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

Gautama Buddha

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.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Your personal truth is your gift to the world.

Jennifer Elisabeth

But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

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

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

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

Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

T. Scott McLeod

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

Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

Heath L. Buckmaster

Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.

Henry David Thoreau

It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always.. Henry David Thoreau
It's not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

Diane Von Furstenberg

You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.

Marilyn Monroe

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.. Marilyn Monroe
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.

Lucille Ball

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

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

Jennifer Elisabeth

I could watch him do this until morning - never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly - his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me.

Jaeda DeWalt

They are called, "SELF-worth" and "SELF-esteem" for a reason... we can't let others decide what we are worth, that is so dangerous! Empower yourself!

Jaeda DeWalt

Don't let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

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

Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

Isabel Quintero

Living a lie is painful, and doesn’t do anyone any good. I had to be true to myself, because, either way, God would know if I was lying.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I can do this… I can start over. I can save my own life and I’m never going to be alone as long as I have stars to wish on and people to still love.

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

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

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 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

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

Jennifer Elisabeth

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’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

Stop trying to be less of who you are. Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back.

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’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

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

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

Jennifer Elisabeth

I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…

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

If ever I was running, it was towards you.

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

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

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

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.

Ogwo David Emenike

Knowing trees, I came to realize, understand and appreciate the act of patience.

Amy Leigh Mercree

Celebrate who you are in your deepest heart. Love yourself and the world will love you.

Amy Leigh Mercree

Accept yourself: flaws, quirks, talents, secret thoughts, all of it, and experience true liberation.

Amy Leigh Mercree

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

C. JoyBell C.

There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?

C. JoyBell C.

The most adventurous journey to embark on; is the journey to yourself, the most exciting thing to discover; is who you really are, the most treasured pieces that you can find; are all the pieces of you, the most special portrait you can recognize; is the portrait of your soul.

Miya Yamanouchi

Practise really seeing yourself in the mirror. This is NOT about examining yourself. This is about you looking beyond your external image to connect with your soul. Look upon yourself with complete appreciation and acceptance. You are so beautiful.

Ogwo David Emenike

Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?

Miya Yamanouchi

My Dear Friend,
Don't ever allow yourself to forget how incredibly special you are, even for a single second. Without you, the world would not be as magnificent. Let yourself remember to love again, starting with you loving you.

Ya'ira Somerville

You are you, no one else is you, you are the right you, and the right you, is the you that you love.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear.

Jennifer Elisabeth

The Fall will always be yours and mine…

Jennifer Elisabeth

He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.

Jennifer Elisabeth

I write letters to you that you’ll never see.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Time' is the most threatening four letter word.

Jennifer Elisabeth

So much has been done to my body, and still, somehow, not enough.

Jennifer Elisabeth

You haunt my days and dreams.

Jennifer Elisabeth

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

Jennifer Elisabeth

I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.

Jennifer Elisabeth

That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both in a stainless cage.

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

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

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

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

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

Jennifer Elisabeth

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

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

I feel like a paper cut just waiting to bleed.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Our true self is made manifest in love.. Lailah Gifty Akita
Our true self is made manifest in love.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Funny how in a material world full of pundits and economists obsessed with assets and liabilities -personally, economically and globally - few speak about the greatest of all these…YOU.

Amy Bloom

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

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

Tiffany Haisten

I was taught at a tender age that Bullying had nothing to do with me; instead it had everything to do with the heartache of the person doing the bullying.

Gautama Buddha

Peace comes from within.  Do not seek it without.

Mitch Albom

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.

Elizabeth Grace Saunders

How do I structure my life to be at peace with who I am, & comfortable with what I’m doing & not doing?

Rasheed Ogunlaru

Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind.

John Williams

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.

Ann Bridge

What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them – that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept oneself as one is, without fear, or envy, or distaste; and to recognise and accept the conditions under which one lives, also without fear or envy, or distaste. When you do this, you shall be free.

Vironika Tugaleva

Self-improvement without self-love is like building a house upon sand. You can build and build, but it will always sink.

Steve Goodier

Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can't stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes.

Lailah Gifty Akita

May the might power of the Holy Spirit renew our thoughts and attitudes.

Amy Leigh Mercree

Self-acceptance is pure power.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.

Aberjhani

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

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