Self Acceptance Quotes - Page 4

• In deep self acceptance, grows a compassionate understanding.

  Jack Kornfield

  Acceptance, Self, Understanding

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are”, p.136, Shambhala Publications

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• Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.

  Louise Hay

  Self Esteem, Love You, Love Life

  Louise L. Hay (1999). “You Can Heal Your Life Gift”, p.30, Hay House, Inc

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• Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Friendship, Relationship, Positive

  "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women" by Rosalie Maggio, p. 130, 1992.

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• 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.

  Brennan Manning

  Self Esteem, Positive Thinking, Acceptance

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.32, Multnomah

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• 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.

  Brené Brown

  Acceptance, Self, World

  Brené Brown (2012). “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead”, p.122, Penguin

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• 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.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Hands, Birth Defects

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• To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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• The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Love Yourself

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  Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Inspirational, Im Sorry, Being Yourself

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  Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It's about accepting all of yourself.

  Tyra Banks

  Love Yourself, Self Love, How You Feel

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Happiness, Moving, Acceptance

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• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.

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• 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.

  John Fowles

  Acceptance, Self, Choices

  John Fowles (1965). “The Magus”

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• Do your thing and don't care if they like it.

  Tina Fey

  Witty, Being Yourself, Badass

  "We Didn't Come to Saturday Night Live To Be Cute" by Tina Fey, www.slate.com. July 25, 2011.

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• I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Self Esteem

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.166, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Inspirational, Depression, Teaching

  "The New Speaker's Treasury of Wit and Wisdom". Book by Herbert Victor Prochnow, 1958.

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• I've finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?

  Goldie Hawn

  Beauty, Confidence, Running

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• 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.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Confidence, Self Esteem

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• We have to learn to be our own best friends because we fall too easily into the trap of being our own worst enemies.

  Roderick Thorp

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

  Roderick Thorp (2014). “Rainbow Drive”, p.68, Open Road Media

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• The yoga of love is the yoga of acceptance. Love teaches us that which is most important is self-acceptance.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Acceptance, Love Is

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• Let a man's talents or virtues be what they may, he will only feel satisfaction in his society as he is satisfied in himself.

  William Hazlitt

  Acceptance, Men, May

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1468, Delphi Classics

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• I want to be remembered as the person who helped us restore faith in ourselves.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Acceptance, Want, Remembered

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• The message of love is self-acceptance in the smaller sense and self-acceptance in the large sense - the Self as eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Yoga, Acceptance, Love Is

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• 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.

  Camryn Manheim

  Acceptance, Self, Giving

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