Quotes on Self Acceptance

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

The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.

Keep your heart open for as long as you can, as wide as you can, for others and especially for yourself.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

I no longer agree to treat myself with disrespect. Every time a self-critical thought comes to mind, I will forgive the Judge and follow this comment with words of praise, self-acceptance, and love.

Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.

It is an item of faith that we are children of God; there is plenty of experience in us against it. The faith that surmounts this evidence and is able to warm itself at the fire of God's love, instead of having to steal love and self-acceptance from other sources, is actually the root of holiness: It is a fatal mistake to think of holiness as a possession which we have distinct from our faith... Faith is the very highest form of our dependence on God.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

See if you can give yourself gifts that may be true blessings, such as self-acceptance , or some time each day with no purpose. Practice feeling deserving enough to accept these gifts without obligation - to simply receive from yourself, and from the universe.

A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem.

It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.

I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.

Health, wealth, beauty, and genius are not created; they are only manifested by the arrangement of your mind-that is, by your concept of yourself, and your concept of yourself is all that you accept and consent to as true.