546 Quotes About Self-acceptance

Remember, criticism is only that person’s opinion. Don't take everything to heart.

She was the river, and the river had nothing to be ashamed of.

When your own approval means more than the approval of others, that is self-love.

sometimes in your works, give people the opportunity to express their ignorance; then you prove the wrong with your works.

The world is so obsessed with defining sexuality for everyone and attaching labels to it. Any time any person openly leaves the sexual norm, their sexuality becomes, more often than not, the absolute defining characteristic of that person. It becomes the first thing people think about and often the first thing they mention. Every other part of that person all but disappears.

If only I could change the world around me, perhaps my truth won’t one day be the end of me.

At the border of where I will literally not survive so long as I keep living in so much fear of the harsh judgments of others, I am finally conceding the truth to you all.I am finally conceding the truth to me.I am something other than straight.

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.

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