546 Quotes About Self-acceptance

And sometimes it's as simple as changing your environment.

We should never allow the scars to define us, if our sole aim is to reach for the stars.

Self-Acceptance is the Key to Life - From this main position everything you are or meant to be flows through you, from the inside out. Celebrate That!

Self-awareness is one of the preeminent aspects of humankind. If a person fails to know oneself, or loses contact with oneself in a tumultuous world of noise and self-pleasing diversions, he or she lives like an unconscious android.

I believe that the most tragic war of our time is the one within—a war between what we knew as children and what we’ve learned as adults. A war between wisdom and intelligence. A war between the natural colour of our hair and the colour we chemically impose upon it. A war between the manicured hedges and the untouched wilderness. A war between reality and fairy tales. A war between what we could learn about the world and what we are systematically taught. A war that can end in peace.

If someone else notices our qualities and talents, we think those parts of us must be worthwhile. Our potential floats like an island in the sea—uncharted, unexplored. We long for someone to discover us, admire us, colonize us. But why must it be another person? Why can’t you sail that voyage and explore yourself?

Anger is a sentry, stalking the edges of our boundaries and standing ready to defend them.

What if each time you experienced an emotion, you acknowledged it, accepted it, and became curious about its message for you (instead of trying to make it go away or make it last longer)? Imagine how this could change your life. Imagine how heard, loved, and honoured you would feel if you really listened to yourself.

I'm accepting all the emotions. I try to recognize what's going on, because I'm the only one who can feel [it], and so what I'm trying to do is, whenever I feel--discover this negative emotion, I tell myself, 'I believe you. I'm believing myself. This is what happened.' [...] I just accept it and listen to myself.