Amanda Palmer Quotes

It took many years of vomiting up all the filth I’d been taught about myself, and half-believed, before I was able to walk on the earth as though I had a right to be here.

Total self acceptance is empowering. It means allowing others to see you as they choose, without being offended.

You have to be really comfortable in your skin. You have to start with being in love with you are, with who you've become.

Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success.

If I am not pleased with myself, but should wish to be other than I am, why should I think highly of the influences which have made me what I am?

I'm realizing, you don't need to change anything about yourself. This is who you are, and it's okay. That's daring.

The most important opinion you'll ever have is the one you hold of yourself.

One thing I've learned is be comfortable in your skin, and more importantly, be comfortable in your shoes.

There is a part of me that is desperately wanting to not necessarily be this cute, endearing, heart-on-his-sleeve type of character that just wants to be liked.

You may wish that some parts of (your face) were different, but the actual fact is shown in the mirror. Now, can you look at your conditioning in a similar way?

To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness

I am a very honest person, and I can only say there are moments in my life where I really did think I was being me in the sense of my morals and beliefs and the way I acted. But when I look back at certain things that I wore and my hair and make-up, I was like, 'Whoa! That wasn't me!' But I didn't know it back then.

What doesn't feel okay to me, what feels a little bit out of balance, is when you want to turn yourself into something else - when you want to be another person.

It's so much easier to know who you are when there aren't a thousand people telling you who they think you are.

It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

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'm really not sure what people think or expect me to be, but I am surprised when people say, 'You're not supposed to be like that... ' I'm not exactly sure what 'that' is, so I choose to take it as a compliment.

You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.

I want to show people there's more to me than they think.

You can't become what you aren't, or you will start feeling awful about yourself.

In the end, I want to try to be myself.

I have to figure out why I worked at a job I hated for years. I have to find out why I can’t see what everyone else sees in me. I don’t feel beautiful. When I look in the mirror, I never saw beautiful. For this to happen to someone like me, it’s devastating, Jonas. I don’t want you to think it’s vanity, it isn’t. I can’t see me and I need to be able to do that. I need to find out what I’m like and what I want. I have to be comfortable in my own skin before I can be in a relationship the way you want.

I'm always talking about loving yourself and expressing yourself and learning how to love yourself. I'm still the same.

For several years I worried a lot about protecting an image, but today, I have understood that the image cannot be preconceived.