Quotes About Accepting Oneself

#1. Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

Flannery O'Connor

#2. As love, if love be perfect, casts out fear, so hate, if hate be perfect, casts out fear.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#3. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost.

Rajneesh

#4. Life is not about reward and punishment," said Xuen. "It is about understanding, accepting who oneself is right now, in order to know what to change, and how.

Christie Golden

#5. We go through life so fast and we never really get to enjoy moments. It seems like they go past us ... Tonight I just wanted to take a minute, a moment and soak it in and be a kid from Robbins Illinois and be a kid from Marquette University.

Dwyane Wade

#6. I am perfect, I love and accept myself as I am.

Avis J. Williams

#7. To live ... in any sense of the word ... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.

Emile M. Cioran

#8. Accepting the thought, emotion or sensation at face value is an act that is both loving and liberating.

Heidi DuPree

#9. Self motivation leads to acceptance of thyself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#10. But I'm real conscious about what I do. I don't care what the label is. I'm looking at the outcome of it.

Mike Epps

#11. This time, there was no escape, I could not turn away, could not leave without accepting what I had done. There was only one way to the other side, and that was through the pain.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#12. Stop wasting so much energy hating your body; it makes you weaker. Everything good in your life begins from the moment you begin accepting, understanding, respecting, and loving your true self.

Harry Papas

#13. I would be upset if I was on the 'worst dressed'. It would make me think, 'Surely I haven't done anything that horrific - have I?'

Louise Nurding

#14. Accept me for who I am.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. This was all of it, no doubt, the strange passing feeling that had come to me in the boat. Age. Vanity. The impossibility of accepting the new versions of oneself that life kept offering. The impossibility of the old version's vanishing.

Sue Miller

#16. We can not paint that in a more positive way if it is already negative, we have to take it that way and think of other means for reaching there.

Auliq Ice

#17. I said to myself that maturity consisted in accepting the turn that existence had taken without getting too upset, following a path between daily practices and theoretical achievements, learning to see oneself, know oneself, in expectation of great changes.

Elena Ferrante

#18. Love made room for conflict. It allowed for the expression of more than one view and invited the paradox that disagreement was vital to harmony. Love required accepting and meant changing oneself rather than demanding change of others.

Jo Goodman

#19. All questions need to be explored from our hearts first & then embraced by our heads.

Andrea T. Goeglein