All Quotes By Tag: Self-acceptance

“One woman filled with self love and self acceptance is a model more super than any cover girl.”

“Accept yourself: flaws, quirks, talents, secret thoughts, all of it, and experience true liberation.”

“Celebrate who you are in your deepest heart. Love yourself and the world will love you.”

“There is a magnificent, beautiful, wonderful painting in front of you! It is intricate, detailed, a painstaking labor of devotion and love! The colors are like no other, they swim and leap, they trickle and embellish! And yet you choose to fixate your eyes on the small fly which has landed on it! Why do you do such a thing?”

“Your personal truth is your gift to the world.”

“I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me.”

“I feel like, God expects me to be human. I feel like, God likes me just the way I am: broken and empty and bruised. I feel like, God doesn’t look at me and wish that I were something else, because He likes me just this way. I feel like, God doesn’t want me to close my eyes and pray for Him to make me holy or for Him to make me pure; because He made me human. I feel like, God already knows I’m human…it is I who needs to learn that.”

“One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others. There was a time when I felt lousy about my over-forty body, saw myself as too fat, too this, or too that. Yet I fantasized about finding a lover who would give me the gift of being loved as I am. It is silly, isn’t it, that I would dream of someone else offering to me the acceptance and affirmation I was withholding from myself. This was a moment when the maxim “You can never love anybody if you are unable to love yourself” made clear sense. And I add, “Do not expect to receive the love from someone else you do not give yourself.”

“Buy or borrow self-improvement books, but don’t read them. Stack them around your bedroom and use them as places to rest bowls of cookies.Watch exercise shows on television, but don’t do the exercises. Practice believing that the benefit lies in imagining yourself doing the exercises.Don’t power walk. Saunter slowly in the sun, eating chocolate, and carry a blanket so you can take a nap.”

“The mistake ninety-nine percent of humanity made, as far as Fats could see, was being ashamed of what they were; lying about it, trying to be somebody else.”

“Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”

“Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”

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

“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”

“I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.”