self-acceptance quotes

It’s simple, if it jiggles, it’s fat.

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Accept everything about yourself – I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end – no apologies, no regrets.

The hardest thing for – not only an artist but for anybody to do is look themselves in the mirror and acknowledge, you know, their own flaws and fears and imperfections and put them out there in the open for people to relate to it.

I’m a whopping 5 foot 4 inches tall. I’m not going to get any taller.

Jesus didn’t die for us so we could pretend to be something we’re not.

I’m totally myself.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

People make jokes about my bosoms, why don’t they look underneath the breasts at the heart? It’s obvious I’ve got big ones and if people want to assume they’re not mine, then let them.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

My philosophy is: It’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me.

I always try to be myself. Ever since I was an introverted kid, I’d get on stage and be able to break out of my shell.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

I think the healthy way to live is to make friends with the beast inside oneself, and that means not the beast but the shadow. The dark side of one’s nature. Have fun with it and you know, is to accept everything about ourselves.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

The single most powerful thing I can be is to be myself.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

Relish everything that’s inside of you, the imperfections, the darkness, the richness and light and everything. And that makes for a full life.

My philosophy is it’s none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am, and I do what I do. I expect nothing and accept everything. And it makes life so much easier.

I refuse to accept other people’s ideas of happiness for me. As if there’s a ‚one size fits all‘ standard for happiness.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

I don’t have a problem with ageing – in fact, I embrace that aspect of it. And am able to and obviously am going to be able to quite easily… it doesn’t faze me at all.

The reason I talk to myself is that I’m the only one whose answers I accept.

I may be no better, but at least I am different.

The more people I reach, the more people there are that have opinions about me. Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.

We all self-conscious. I’m just the first to admit it.

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

I don’t have to be what you want me to be.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

I’m not the most attractive fella. I’m not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

I allow myself to fail. I allow myself to break. I’m not afraid of my flaws.

I’m not perfect.

God didn’t make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.

‚Born this Way‘ is about being yourself, and loving who you are and being proud.

You are not a problem that needs solving.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

Beauty is not caused. It is.

Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.

The essential lesson I’ve learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you’re not here as a human being only. You’re a spiritual being having a human experience.

Honestly, I could care less about other people’s opinions about me.

Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.

I am whatever you say I am; if I wasn’t, then why would you say I am.

I’m confident in who I am. I’ve come to a place in my life where I’ve accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That’s just the way I’ve always tried to be. It didn’t change when I became a star.

You can be happy where you are.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

I was never particularly fond of my voice.

You don’t have to be somebody different to be important. You’re important in your own right.

I worked with someone who told me they’d never like me. But for some reason, I just felt like I needed her approval. So I started changing myself to please her. It made me stop being social and friendly. I was so unhappy.

I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I’m not ashamed of anything.

Your life will be a blessed and balanced experience if you first honor your identity and priority.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Lots of songs aren’t even from my experiences, but they’re about accepting… the dark things about yourself.

I’m crazy and I don’t pretend to be anything else.