Jenny Zhang Quotes

My confidence comes from the realisation that, actually, the best you can be is you, learning to accept who I was, what I wanted, and that I was more than my body.

Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you'll figure out your own beauty in time.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turn into confident ducks.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

I think you just have to appreciate who you are and hopefully they can see what a superhero is about.

The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.

We all wait for a mirror to show us who we are, to validate us. When we hear something about ourselves that we have never heard before, it feels like a blessing, and it gives power.

It's all about, no matter where you come from, that you can be who you want to be and achieve what you want to achieve. I want people to learn to love who they are. Because that's the hardest thing in life, being able to see yourself the way other people see you.

Everybody has their demons that they face, and I went through a time when I thought it was impossible to love myself.

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.

I've learned to accept who I am.

Until you love yourself, you will never know who you really are and you won’t know what you’re really capable of

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem.

I don't always understand my worth.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

Maybe you just don't see your own beauty.

I love who I am. I love what I've become.

My first book, 'Radical Acceptance', grew out of the suffering of feeling personally deficient and unworthy. Because most of us are so quick to turn against ourselves, the teachings and practices of radical acceptance continue as a strong current in 'True Refuge': nurturing a forgiving, understanding heart is a basic step on the path.

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

I'm okay in my skin, you know... I'm okay with who I am.

Learning to love my inner and outer beauty wasn't an easy road. I still don't always love the reflection I see in the mirror, but I have learned that my outer appearance does not define me.

I've made peace with the fact that the things that I thought were weaknesses or flaws were just me. I like them.