Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.
In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
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.
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.
At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures - be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
The message of love is self-acceptance in the smaller sense and self-acceptance in the large sense - the Self as eternity.
Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.
The yoga of love is the yoga of acceptance. Love teaches us that which is most important is self-acceptance.
It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
It came to me…that I didn’t want to be anywhere else in the world at that moment, that what I was feeling at that moment justified all I had been through, because all I had been through was my being there. I was experiencing…a new self-acceptance, a sense that I had to be this mind and this body, its vices and its virtues, and that I had no other chance or choice.
Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.
I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.
Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.
I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.
Honesty comes only with sound health, physically and psychologically, and an honest mind cannot be separated from the most genuine acknowledgment of expression. It should be recognized that pure perfection is unobtainable. Therefore, the realization that one's irrevocable faults and deficiencies must be faced guides us toward the first step of learning. We must each accept any situation as it actually is, with dignity. In that fine balance of acceptance of self and the mission to better oneself, compassion, humility, and discipline are nurtured.
If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor.
One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.
We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.
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