Zora Neale Hurston Quotes

I quite like being who I am.

I feel really good about the things I've accomplished in my life, and I don't want to look younger.

Glamour is about feeling good in your own skin.

I know who I am and I've always been comfortable in my own skin.

What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually - to look in the mirror and not be ashamed - has been very important in not relapsing.

You have to be happy with yourself first of all - that's the most important thing.

I like the way my heart beats, I like the way I think; I don't need or want anything to change that.

I used to be smaller than I am now, and it didn't make my life any easier. It's not really about your body. It's about what's going on inside, in your head and your heart.

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

If you feel good about who you are inside, it will radiate.

I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.

My characters always like themselves.

What he showed me was not what I had to get, but what I already have. I am just myself, and who I am is a lot.

Definitely love yourself.

Once I got done with my career, I knew in my soul that I don't have any negative thoughts about myself.

I just feel not many people hear that you should feel good inside and feel happy within your soul, instead of needing to look a certain way, so I always try and talk to people about that.

Self-love is for everyone and we all need it!

I've realised you don't gain validation from other people just because you have perfect skin or hair, it comes from the inside and I feel brighter and happier since I made peace with, and begun to accept, my spots.

It's okay to be yourself and to love and accept yourself however you are.

I do have my insecurities, but I feel good in my skin, and my heart is full of love.

There's a happiness about me, a confidence and a happiness that I didn't have when I was younger. You feel good inside, you look good outside. I feel like I look like somebody who's having a good life, who's enjoying it a little better than I did before. You can be really good-looking in your twenties but feel miserable, and people just sort of walk away.

When you acquire enough inner peace and feel really positive about yourself, it's almost impossible for you to be controlled and manipulated by anybody else.

I don't wanna be afraid, I wanna wake up feeling beautiful today, and know that I'm okay.

You have to feel good about yourself.

It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else.