Quotes on Self Acceptance

I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance.

Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.

We must be our own before we can be another's.

You are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are.

Do not let anything from your past inhibit you in this Present Moment. Start over. Start Fresh. Each day. Each hour, if it serves you. Heck, each minute. Just get going. Just do it. Just say it. With love. All else will take care of itself.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.

I may say that B-love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. It gives him a self-image, it gives him self- acceptance, a feeling of love-worthiness, all of which permit him to grow. It is a real question whether the full development of the human being is possible without it.

Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.

Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

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

It came to me…that I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through was my being there. I was experiencing…a new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance or choice.

Much of spiritual life is self-acceptance, maybe all of it.

The main thing, of course, always, is the fact that there is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost. Ambition is not enough; necessity is everything.

Once you forgive yourself, the self-rejection in your mind is over. Self-acceptance begins, and the self-love will grow so strong that you will finally accept yourself just the way you are. That's the beginning of the free human. Forgiveness is the key.

Integrity is unity of the personality; it implies being brutally honest with ourselves about our intentionality. Since intentionality is inextricably bound up with the daimonic, this is never an easy, nor always pleasant pursuit. But being willing to admit our daimonic tendencies - to know them consciously and to wisely oversee them - brings with it the invaluable blessing of freedom, vigor, inner strength, and self-acceptance.