What self-acceptance does is open up more possibilities of succeeding because you aren’t fighting yourself along the way.

Of course we need to accept ourselves as we are, but we can’t stop there. We also need to value ourselves enough make needed changes.

I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

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

I am here. I am in the present tense. I’m not always here, and sometimes here is a very difficult place. Sometimes it is a labyrinth, or a Minotaur, or a rope I can neither...

There’s all this pressure in our society to be beautiful, to be strong, to be sexy. So we spend our time and money on trying to become these things. We put on the high heels,...

Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.

When we accept ourselves as we are, we aren’t “settling” or “keeping the problem in place.” We’re showing love and compassion for ourselves-for our feelings, our situation, and our history.

Sometimes in life there’s no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space – between these apparent poles – life flows.

She was perhaps too young to realize that what she assumed was her love for [him] was actually a tentative, timorous, acceptance of herself.

n our perfection-obsessed, air-brushed society, it can be tempting to measure our self-worth against its set of impossible standards. However, organic beauty is in the flaws that make us vulnerable, human and fallible. We are...

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

Remember that your role in this experience that we call life is quite significant! Never equate your significance to temporary stuff, or in comparison to others – you’re more than that!~Steele Steele

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...

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always...

Who will you love if not yourself? Other people? How can you love someone for anything but their raw, naked humanity? How can you say you love someone if it is not for their flaws...

The world is so obsessed with defining sexuality for everyone and attaching labels to it. Any time any person openly leaves the sexual norm, their sexuality becomes, more often than not, the absolute defining characteristic...

Innocence ends when one is stripped of the delusion that one likes oneself.

Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind.

Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.

You are imperfect, permanently and inevitably flawed. And you are beautiful.

While we are all in the process of becoming as ever-changing, ever-evolving beings… it’s essential to remember that we are also enough, just as we are, right now, in this moment. When we are able...

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.

The most adventurous journey to embark on; is the journey to yourself, the most exciting thing to discover; is who you really are, the most treasured pieces that you can find; are all the pieces...

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...

Its not the falling down that counts but what you do next that counts the most. Don’t spend your time on your knees if you have fallen, instead get up and dust your knees clean...

Self-improvement without self-love is like building a house upon sand. You can build and build, but it will always sink.

At the border of where I will literally not survive so long as I keep living in so much fear of the harsh judgments of others, I am finally conceding the truth to you all.I...

Today Lord I am going to do my best with Your help and for Your glory. I realize that there are many different people in the world with a variety of opinions and expectations. I...

There’s no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it – and get on with it.

When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened.

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

We are at our most powerful the moment we no longer need to be powerful.

There is darkness inside all of us, though mine is more dangerous than most. Still, we all have it—that part of our soul that is irreparably damaged by the very trials and tribulations of life....

I was taught at a tender age that Bullying had nothing to do with me; instead it had everything to do with the heartache of the person doing the bullying.

I see myself as a Scottish sky: there are rain clouds, rainbows and sunrays that run and overtake one another, mingle together and dance with each other! You see all of this within seconds of...

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

Always look at the function, its not what you did but why do you do it? Once you find the why then you walk through another door

It is not depression or anxiety that truly hurts us. It is our active resistance against these states of mind and body. If you wake up with low energy, hopeless thoughts, and a lack of...

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

If only I could change the world around me, perhaps my truth won’t one day be the end of me.

Knowing trees, I came to realize, understand and appreciate the act of patience.

In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day – or to celebrate each special day.

You don’t have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.

Self-acceptance is pure power.

We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it.

It’s a fact that you’re going to have a different opinion or view on certain topics or issues. You need stand your ground by sharing your view.

Debería tener la capacidad de ser feliz conmigo misma, de estar satisfecha con lo que soy. No como reina, sino con lo que soy.

Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.