Self Acceptance Quotes
He who seeks for applause only from without has all his happiness in another's keeping.
You can enjoy encouragement coming from outside but you cannot need for it to come from outside.
Next to God we are indebted to women first for life itself and then for making it worth living.
The older women were Sunbeams and I guess we were Cherubs or Lambs but our mothers were Nightingales.
No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.
When you know you are doing your very best within the circumstances of your existence applaud yourself!
To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections.
I've learned to take time for myself and to treat myself with a great deal of love and respect 'cause I like me.... I think I'm kind of cool.
Spirituality is ... the awareness that survival is the savage fight between you and yourself.
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng but in ourselves are triumph and defeat.
If there are two hundred people in a room and one of them doesn't like me I've got to get out.
To make the choice for independent survival the great man's wife has to become convinced of her own intrinsic worth.
Life I fancy would very often be insupportable but for the luxury of self-compassion.
If you must love your neighbor as yourself it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.
The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information-compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.
The thing that makes you exceptional if you are at all is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
I didn't belong as a kid and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset then my early life would have been much easier.
Genius is expansive irresistible and irresistibly expansive. If it is in you no cords can confine it.
Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time you are incomparable.
The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough.
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do-can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops or we can make music.
She soothed and solaced and celebrated destroying her gift by maiming it to suit her hearers.
Borrowed thoughts like borrowed money only show the poverty of the borrower.
Every man must at last accept himself for his portion and learn to do his work with the tools and talents with which he has been endowed.
Change occurs when one becomes what she is not when she tries to become what she is not.
