Portia Doubleday Quotes

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

If you don't believe you don't belong.

I've always felt like I belonged, and you need affirmation every now and then.

I've lived my whole life trying to prove that I'm worthy of being a part of something because I never really felt that.

Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance.

I think people should feel encouraged to be themselves.

If you don't embrace who you are and accept who you are, you won't be able to live a happy life.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!

To be happy, it first takes being comfortable being in your own shoes. The rest can work up from there.

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

I'm finally just relaxed and comfortable with who I am.

As time goes by people will see who I am for who I am.

If I can't be me and be accepted and loved for that, then what's the point?

When you get older, you feel better about yourself. You're not worried what other people think about you, in general. You just get more comfortable in your skin.

Whether I'm single or in a relationship, I'm the same person. The same human being.

The greatest lesson I have learned in life is that I am enough simply because I have been given life. Growing up, I constantly found myself trying to please others because I wanted to be included and validated. I expended myself completely.

I'd say for those people who don't feel like they fit in, I'd want them to ask themselves why they want to, who they are trying to please, and whether or not those people are worth it. You know what they say: 'If they don't want you, then they don't deserve to have you.'

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.

I don't want anyone to ever say that I don't belong where I am.

I don't feel much pressure to fit in. I never have. I've always just wanted to do my thing. I have really good friends and good family, and if I don't fit in somewhere else, I fit in at home.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

It's not that anything has changed about me, and, it's a cliche, but I think that as you get older, you learn to accept who you are, and you feel more comfortable in your own skin.