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.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit

You think it’s so easy to change yourself. You think it’s so easy, but it’s not True, things don’t stay the same forever: couches are replaced, boys leave, you discover a song, your body becomes...

I found myself praying: “May I love and accept myself just as I am.

Your skin is your skin. Your legs are your legs. Your hair is your hair. Your smile is your smile. Your past is your past. You can waste your life hating these things, but you...

It has long been my motto that if you cannot get your act together… then the very least you can do is try to make your act entertaining.

They are called, “SELF-worth” and “SELF-esteem” for a reason… we can’t let others decide what we are worth, that is so dangerous! Empower yourself!

The peak of happiness is attained when a person has accepted to be what he is.

Finding oneself and one’s path is like waking up on a foggy day. Be patient, and presently the fog will clear and that which has always been there can be seen. The path is already...

Winning or losing achieves the same result–change.

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...

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

Practise really seeing yourself in the mirror. This is NOT about examining yourself. This is about you looking beyond your external image to connect with your soul. Look upon yourself with complete appreciation and acceptance....

You are you, no one else is you, you are the right you, and the right you, is the you that you love.

How do I structure my life to be at peace with who I am, & comfortable with what I’m doing & not doing?

The way I saw it, I was fully capable of being treated with indifference that bordered on disdain while maintaining a strong sense of self-respect. I obeyed his commands, sure that I could fulfill this...

Live your life, sing your song. Not full of expectations. Not for the ovations. But for the joy of it.

My job, my only job here in this moment, is to love myself and, by extension, to love others. My job is just to live and to realize that to live is to love.

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...

Don’t let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to...

I laugh at myself. I don’t take myself completely seriously. I think that’s another quality that people have to hold on to… you have to laugh, especially at yourself.

And lose my cock, balls and prostate? Are you kidding me? Honey, I’m still all man. I’m just a man with decoration,” Tommy had explained before turning with a flounce and practically floating out of...

The price tag that you put on your soul will determine the people and circumstances in which you find yourself.

Because true belonging only happens when we present our authentic, imperfect selves to the world, our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self-acceptance.

It’s not worth our while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

My Dear Friend, Don’t ever allow yourself to forget how incredibly special you are, even for a single second. Without you, the world would not be as magnificent. Let yourself remember to love again, starting...

Self-love is not the process of ignoring things, paying attention to fewer flaws or forcing yourself to look away from the parts of you that you perceive as ugly or unwanted. Self-love is the process...

You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit.

Commandment #1: Believe in yourself. Commandment #2: Get over yourself.

Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.

The search for the soul mate, the perfect partner to complete you, is a bit like searching for the perfect food when you’ve got a giant ulcer in your stomach. No matter what you find,...

To say “I love you” one must know first how to say the “I”.

All the external adoration, respect and adulation in the word, can’t drown out the internal voices that tell us, we are not good enough and unworthy of; happiness, love and an abundant life. When we...

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.And whether or not it is clear...

With self-acceptance, we have the ability to choose compassion and forgiveness over anger and self-hatred.

Recognize that there’s something AMAZING about you. Everyone has something that comes very natural for them – natural gifts and talents. That gift/talent is that thing or things that comes easy for you, but hard...

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