I have so much self-acceptance.

Success is total self-acceptance.

Accept who you are; and revel in it.

Be content to seem what you really are.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

Fear comes from personal self-acceptance and not the self.

Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age.

Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

We always condemn most in others, he thought, that which we most fear in ourselves.

No one can love you until you love yourself, and you cannot love anyone else, until you love yourself.

Why compare yourself with others? No one in the entire world can do a better job of being you than you.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

For all the challenges I've faced in my path to self-acceptance, I've also traveled it with my own set of luck and privilege.

The people who are most attractive to me are those who feel most comfortable in their skin - there's a sense of self-acceptance.

Does self-acceptance ultimately require another person, or is there a kind of love that does not dabble in the dream of a perfect twinship?

I think once I kind of got to a place of self-acceptance, looking past all the insecurities that I have, I've really grown so much as a person.

Whether you're as healthy as you should be or not, that doesn't disallow you to look your best. Style is only possible from a place of self-acceptance.

I feel like it's my duty to share my experience with self-acceptance. I don't want to bore people and talk about myself, but the biggest struggle for me was my body.

We should not become so ashamed of the disappointments and travesties of democracy that we become ashamed of the idea itself. It is the outer reflection of our self-acceptance.

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.

For me, it really is about the self-acceptance... the more time that I spend really accepting and allowing myself to be exactly where I am, the faster it is I move towards what I wanna be doing.

I grew up on the ragged edge of self-acceptance, where I was holding on to it, but it was easy to fall off. But as I found my way inside myself, I've been able to accept my own hair, my own shape.

In my research, I've interviewed a lot of people who never fit in, who are what you might call 'different': scientists, artists, thinkers. And if you drop down deep into their work and who they are, there is a tremendous amount of self-acceptance.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

While writing 'City Boy,' I relied mainly on my own memories. In particular, I was able to describe the effect of gay liberation on an individual life (mine) as events paralleled my own growing self-acceptance; in this case, the political truly was the personal.

I am a bit of a fundamentalist when it comes to black women's hair. Hair is hair - yet also about larger questions: self-acceptance, insecurity and what the world tells you is beautiful. For many black women, the idea of wearing their hair naturally is unbearable.

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