When you accept yourself, the Universe accepts you. — Lao Tzu
You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. — Bindi Irwin
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her. — Lao Tzu
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding. — Sayings
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself. — Nathaniel Branden
There's no freedom like the freedom that comes from accepting yourself. — Camila Cabello
Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others. — Bar Refaeli
With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred. — Michelle Cruz
Accept who you are; and revel in it. — Mitch Albom
The moment you accept yourself, you become beautiful. — Osho
By accepting yourself and being fully what you are, your presence can make others happy. — Jane Roberts
In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature. — Bruce Lee
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. — Henry A Kissinger
This inner yes is an unconditionally constructive attitude of acceptance and respect – first toward yourself, then toward life, and finally toward others. — William Ury
Short Self Acceptance Quotes
Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance. — Alexander Lowen
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change. — Carl Rogers
Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer. — Ellen DeGeneres
Love yourself just as you are. — Melody Beattie
Loving other people starts with loving ourselves and accepting ourselves. — Ellen Page
Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance. — Brené Brown
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves. — Malcolm X
The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet. — Shunryu Suzuki
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. — Carl Jung
Happiness can exist only in acceptance. — Denis De Rougamont
Top 10 Self Acceptance Quotes
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Love is acceptance. When you love someone . . . you take them into your heart, and that is surely why it hurts so much when we lose someone we love, because we lose a part of ourselves. — Andrew the Apostle
We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves. — Barbara Jordan
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are — Kurt Cobain
The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around! — Rumi
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself. — Nhat Hanh
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. — Malcolm Forbes
I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality... become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality. — Carl Rogers
The more we learn to treat ourselves with respect and compassion, the more we remind our brains that we are enough in who we are. — Rangan Chatterjee
I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I've finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how I was made, that I don't have to hide it and I don't have to fix it. I'm not broken. — Glennon Melton
Self Acceptance Image Quotes
Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic. — Brené Brown
Your heart is the size of an ocean. Go find yourself in its hidden depths. — Rumi
When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me.
Self Worth Self Acceptance Quotes
Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them. — Iyanla Vanzant
Not one ounce of my self worth depends on your acceptance of me. — Quincy Jones
No one is going to value you more than you value yourself. — Naval Ravikant
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.
The one self- knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind. — F. H. Bradley
Your self-love must always be stronger than your desire to be loved by others. — Steven Bartlett
When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me.
But a true and accurate measurement of one’s self-worth is how people feel about the negative aspects of themselves. — Mark Manson
When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process. — Dave Pelzer
Jealousy is the result of one's lack of self-confidence, self-worth, and self-acceptance. — Sasha Azevedo
Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person. — Denis Waitley
Happiness Self Acceptance Quotes
Once you start pretending you're someone you're not, to gain the approval of somebody else, you put yourself on a slippery slope. Before long you end up living a life that's not your own and you wonder why you feel so unhappy. A happy life is an authentic life. — Rangan Chatterjee
The trick is that as long as you know who you are and what makes you happy, it doesn't matter how others see you. — Wendy Mass
One has just to be oneself. That's my basic message. The moment you accept yourself as you are, all burdens, all mountainous burdens, simply disappear. Then life is a sheer joy, a festival of lights. — Osho
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love & affection. — Buddha
I am learning to understand rather than immediately judge or to be judged. I cannot blindly follow the crowd and accept their approach. I will not allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowled — Bruce Lee
I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again. — Catherine Marshall
I am willing to release the need to be unworthy. I am worthy of the very best in life, and I now lovingly allow myself to accept it — Louise Hay
Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness. — Iyanla Vanzant
If you cannot get along with yourself, you'll never be able to get along with other people. — Joel Osteen
The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Love Yourself Self Acceptance Quotes
No one can love you until you love yourself, and you cannot love anyone else, until you love yourself. — Raymond Charles Barker
You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens. — Louise Hay
So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me. — Tim Cook
Then let yourself love all that you take delight in
Accept yourself whole, accept the heritage
That shaped you and is passed on from age to age
Down to your entity. Remain mysterious;
Rather than be pure, accept yourself as numerous. — John Ashbery
The final and only act of healing is to accept that there is nothing wrong with you. — Robert Holden
God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself. — Caster Semenya
Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life. — Ellen Stern
The spiritual journey is the unlearning of fear and the acceptance of love. — Marianne Williamson
Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation. — Wayne Dyer
But in order to be strong, you have to love yourself, and in order to love yourself, you need thorough self-knowledge, you need to know everything about yourself, including your most hidden secrets, the ones most difficult to accept. — Susanna Tamaro
You can't go to Heaven hating somebody. Forgive now. Be compassionate now. Be patient now. Be grateful now. Love Jesus and Mary now. Accept God's will now. — Mother Angelica
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. — Maya Angelou
Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things. — Leo Buscaglia
She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it. — William Faulkner
There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is......me. — C. S. Lewis
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am. — Anais Nin
Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun. — Byron Katie
Physical strength (hard work), mental strength (perseverance) and spiritual strength (love & acceptance) are the keys to continuous growth. — Rickson Gracie
Accepting Yourself Quotes
Once you accept you are being judged by people who have less knowledge than yourself, then what's it worth? — Marco Pierre White
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable. — Denis Waitley
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. — Neville Goddard
When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation, change the situation or accept it, all else is madness. — Eckhart Tolle
Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
You have to accept the fact that some people are never going to be for you. Treat them with respect, but you don’t need their approval to fulfill your destiny. — Joel Osteen
It is impossible to call yourself a Christian and defend homosexuality. There is no justification or acceptance of homosexuality... Homosexuality means the death of society because homosexuals can recruit, but they cannot reproduce. — John Hagee
Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets. — Clark Moustakas
Everything which you can conceive and accept is yours! Entertain no doubt. Refuse to accept worry or hurry or fear. That which knows and does everything is inside you and harkens to the slightest whisper. — Uell Stanley Andersen
Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. — Harvey Fierstein
Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone. — Ferdinand E. Marcos
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people. — John Henrik Clarke
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. — Kanye West
Our worst fault is our preoccupation with the faults of others. — Kahlil Gibran
There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves. — Malcolm X
Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome. — John P. Kotter
Our religion has defined a position for women (in society): motherhood. Some people can understand this, while others can't. You cannot explain this to feminists because they don't accept the concept of motherhood. — Sayings
There are days when we can bring before God...laughter of joy and gratitude. There will be other days when we can only muster a bitter, angry complaint. Be confident that God will accept whatever we lift up before him, and he will make it serve his purpose and our good. — Gardner C. Taylor
Body Acceptance Quotes
There are two types of pain, the one that breaks you and the one that changes you. In the gym, pain is felt as a result of weakness leaving the body. Physical pain is the glue of transformation and the pain of progress. The more you endure the harder it gets to accept the thought of failure. — Greg Plitt
If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business. — Gail Dines
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms. — Gloria Steinem
As a gymnast, you always wear spandex. Being a teenager wearing spandex? It was tough accepting how my body looked, especially if there was any weight gain. — Alicia Sacramone
Growing up, I never accepted my curves, but when I got the opportunity to become a plus size model, I was able to appreciate my voluptuous body and love myself, not only on the outside, but on the inside. — Hayley Hasselhoff
This body is yours. No one can ever take it from you, if only you will accept yourself, claim it again--your arms, your spine, your ribs, the small of your back. It's all yours. All this bounty, all this beauty, all this strength and grace is yours. This garden is yours. Take it back. Take it back. — Jean Hegland
My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body. — Serena Williams
Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you perceive that an act done to another is done to yourself, you have understood the great truth. — Lao Tzu
I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn't who I am. — Ram Dass
I might have a little bit of cellulite. I might not be toned everywhere. I might struggle in this area or that. But accepting that just empowers me. — Kim Kardashian
Self Embrace Quotes
To the Muslim woman, the hijab provides a sense of empowerment. It is a personal decision to dress modestly according to the command of a genderless Creator; to assert pride in self, and embrace one's faith openly, with independence and courageous conviction. — Randa Abdel-Fattah
It is better to be an outcast, a stranger in one’s own country, than an outcast from one’s self. It is better to see what is about to befall us and to resist than to retreat into the fantasies embraced by a nation of the blind. — Chris Hedges
Embracing discomfort can lead to self-discovery and personal transformation. — Michael Easter
True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid. — Joshua Harris
I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The true follower of Christ will not ask, "If I embrace this truth, what will it cost me?" Rather he will say, "This is truth. God help me to walk in it, let come what may!" — Aiden Wilson Tozer
We need to embrace discomfort as an opportunity for self-exploration and growth. — Michael Easter
We need to embrace discomfort as a powerful catalyst for change and self-discovery. — Michael Easter
I embrace emerging experience, I participate in discovery. I am a butterfly. I am not a butterfly collector. I want the experience of the butterfly. — William Stafford
Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation. — Bernie Siegel
People only accept change when they are faced with necessity, and only recognize necessity when a crisis is upon them. — Jean Monnet
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like. — Lao Tzu
Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings — Arthur Rubinstein
We look at the world through our likes and dislikes, hopes and fears, opinions and judgments. We want everyone to behave as we think they should; otherwise we get agitated. But we are here to accept the world as it is, even as we work to make it better. — Eknath Easwaran
The way of love is the way of no-expectation. Love exists only when there is a total acceptance and no desire to change anything. — Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain]
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. — J. K. Rowling
We are who we are, and when you accept people instead of trying to change them to fit your needs, your relationships can fully blossom. — Deepak Chopra
To accept our past, it helps to reframe our stories and give a positive meaning to even the most difficult life events. We may have no power to change the past, but we do have the power to change the meaning we assign to it. — William Ury
[N]obody can produce new evidence of your depravity that will make God change his mind. For God justified you with (so to speak) his eyes open. He knew the worst about you at the time when he accepted you for Jesus' sake; and the verdict which he passed then was, and is, final. — J. I. Packer
Self-love Quotes
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately. — Henry David Thoreau
Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways. — Sigmund Freud
You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman. — Max Lucado
I wish I could show you...the astonishing light of your own being. — Hafez
Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide. — Marva Collins
When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem. — Abraham Maslow
If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars. — Rabindranath Tagore
Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart. — Kahlil Gibran
A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues. — Abraham Maslow
It’s at the heart of everything we struggle with in life: longing to be valuable, to be accepted, to be prized, to be worth something to somebody, to have a life that matters, and God’s saying ‘You matter! I didn’t make anyone else like you. You’re not a reprint or a lithograph. You’re a one-of-a-kind, original creation of God. — Louie Giglio
Listening is much more than allowing another to talk while waiting for a chance to respond. Listening is paying full attention to others and welcoming them into our very beings. The beauty of listening is that those who are listened to start feeling accepted, start taking our words more seriously and discovering their true selves. — Henri Nouwen
When you can completely love your ego unconditionally and accept it as part of how you express in this life, you'll no longer have a problem with it. It won't impede your growth - on the contrary, it will be an asset. — Anita Moorjani
I don't have to be perfect. All I have to do is show up and enjoy the messy, imperfect and beautiful journey of my life. — Kerry Washington
It's only when we understand who we really are that we open up the possibility of becoming the person we wish to be. — Rangan Chatterjee
The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery. — Albert Ellis
Be yourself. The world worships the original. — Ingrid Bergman
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs. — Joan Didion
Modern society will shame you for existing. — Naval Ravikant
You have to surrender, at least a little bit, to be the best version of yourself possible. — Naval Ravikant
You can never protect yourself 100%. What you do is protect your self as much as possible and mitigate risk to an acceptable degree. You can never remove all risk. — Kevin Mitnick
How someone else decides to classify me or judge me or categorize me is none of my business. — Rich Roll
In order to have what you really want, you must first be who you really are. — Tim Grover
Be grateful, for gratitude can bring life to life, it can turn a meal to a feast, resentment to love, a grudge to forgiveness, an enemy to a friend, a disease to hope, and you to enough. — Steven Bartlett
To move forward in life, it's always helpful to honestly acknowledge where you are right now, rather than where you used to be or aspire to be in the future. — Rangan Chatterjee
Self-judgment may be the greatest barrier to self-understanding. If we want to understand other human beings, there is no better way than to listen to them with empathy like a close friend would. If you wish to understand yourself, the same rule applies: listen with empathy. Instead of talking negatively to yourself, try to listen to yourself with respect and positive attention. Instead of judging yourself, accept yourself just as you are. — William Ury
You can't get it all right all the time, but you can try your best. If you've done that, all that's left is to accept your shortcomings and have the courage to try to overcome them. — Idina Menzel
A Mother who radiates self-love and self-acceptance actually VACCINATES her daughter against low self-esteem. — Naomi Wolf
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