546 Quotes About Self-acceptance

You are under no obligation to look pretty, least of all someone else’s definition of pretty.

All your body requires of you is that you turn toward it with kindness and compassion, with nonjudgment and plain-vanilla acceptance of all your contradictory emotions, beliefs, and longings.

The work here isn't to figure out why they didn't like you, or who's right and who's wrong. It's to practice being okay with the idea that there are some people who will get you and some people who won't...and that's fine.

If you want to trust other people you must first learn how to trust yourself with other people.

One of the greatest challenges is to rise above the desire to reinvent who we are and boldly embrace the far loftier challenge of cultivating who we are. For reinventing is to construct what we will never be, while cultivating is to expand who we always were.

Endeavour to appreciate life while you experience it, for some will never experience life again, because they are six feet inside the grave.

To be given permission to be confused -- and remain confused -- for as long as it takes would have been a huge gift.

Sometimes when we aspire to "be" something we forget that we already are something. Even if we achieve our dreams, we will still be who we are. This is why self-acceptance is so very important. Love and accept yourself fully and completely. Don't hinge that on some accomplishment or arrival.

Your outer world mirrors your inner world. How you view your outer world is how you view you, your inner world, the 'you' that needs your care, your attention, your compassion and your love.