35 Quotes About Accepting Yourself For Who You Are

Finding a form of personal freedom will get you to find more acceptance in life. For some, there is great dissatisfaction experienced with the world around them. These quotes about accepting yourself for who you are will bring your life back into focus and start seeing things from a whole new perspective.

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”

“Accept yourself: flaws, quirks, talents, secret thoughts, all of it, and experience true liberation.”

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’
approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.”

“Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself – what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.”

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

“I don’t need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore, like I always thought I would.”

“I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally, it occurred to me, I’m either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there.”

“I have known friendship love, parental love, romantic love, family love and unrequited love in my lifetime, but the only love that made a difference was self-love. You don’t need confirmation from the world or another person that you matter.”

“I only accept your mistakes and flaws to the degree that I accept my own.”

“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.’”

“If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.”

“If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespect you as much as you do.”

“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.”

“It’s OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.”

“Let yourself remember to love again, starting with you loving you.”

“Love thy neighbor yes, but love thyself first.”

“Loving yourself does not mean being self-absorbed or narcissistic, or disregarding others. Rather it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart, a guest worthy of respect, a lovable companion.”

“No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.”

“No other love no matter how genuine it is, can fulfill one’s heart better than unconditional self-love.”

“Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort.”

“One woman filled with self-love and self-acceptance is a model more super than any cover girl.”

“Our task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“Self-acceptance means living the life you choose to live without worrying what others think about you. It doesn’t matter what someone else thinks about you. What matters is what you think about yourself.”

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

“The absence of self-love can never be replaced with the presence of people’s love for you.”

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”

“What self-acceptance does is open up more possibilities of succeeding because you aren’t fighting yourself along the way.”

“When admiring other people’s gardens, don’t forget to tend to your own flowers.”

“When I loved myself enough, I began leaving whatever wasn’t healthy. This meant people, jobs, my own beliefs, and habits – anything that kept me small. Now I see it as self-loving.”

“When you are truly stunning, gorgeous and beautiful, you won’t have to prove that to anyone visually.”

“When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self-acceptance opened.”

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

“You are beautiful, no matter what they say.”

“You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.”

“Your problem is you’re too busy holding onto your unworthiness.”

Knowing who you are inside will help to bring you to who you were meant to be.