I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.
The rose does best as a rose. Lilies make the best lilies. And look! You - the best you around!
I am willing to release the need to be unworthy. I am worthy of the very best in life, and I now lovingly allow myself to accept it
I still get very high and very low in life. Daily. But I've finally accepted the fact that sensitive is just how I was made, that I don't have to hide it and I don't have to fix it. I'm not broken.
If you cannot get along with yourself, you'll never be able to get along with other people.
Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength
The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.
Acceptance of one's life has nothing to do with resignation; it does not mean running away from the struggle. On the contrary, it means accepting it as it comes, with all the handicaps of heredity, of suffering, of psychological complexes and injustices.
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.
The final and only act of healing is to accept that there is nothing wrong with you.
No one can love you until you love yourself, and you cannot love anyone else, until you love yourself.
Find it within you to love exactly who you are and to know you're capable, you're loved and you're beautiful. The world is a better place, because of you! You are unique, because there is only ONE of you!
A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul
When you can completely love your ego unconditionally and accept it as part of how you express in this life, you'll no longer have a problem with it. It won't impede your growth - on the contrary, it will be an asset.
So let me be clear: I'm proud to be gay, and I consider being gay among the greatest gifts God has given me.
Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.
As a doctor, let me tell you what self-love does: It improves your hearing, your eyesight, lowers your blood pressure, increases pulmonary function, cardiac output, and helps wiring the musculature. So, if we had a rampant epidemic of self-love then our healthcare costs would go down dramatically. So, this isn't just some little frou-frou new age notion, oh love yourself honey. This is hardcore science.
It's surprising how many persons go through life without ever recognizing that their feelings toward other people are largely determined by their feelings toward themselves, and if you're not comfortable within yourself, you can't be comfortable with others.
Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.
God made me the way I am and I accept myself. I am who I am and I'm proud of myself.
Everything which you can conceive and accept is yours! Entertain no doubt. Refuse to accept worry or hurry or fear. That which knows and does everything is inside you and harkens to the slightest whisper.
I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.
Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves.
Accept who you are; and revel in it.
Many of us have a need to be right. We then set out to make ourselves right by making someone else wrong. We must get right with ourselves. Once we do, we will have so much to do, we will not have time to keep track of who is wrong.
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