C. S. Lewis Quotes

Self-acceptance begets acceptance from others, which begets even deeper, more genuine self-acceptance. It can be done. But no one is going to bestow it on you. It is a gift only you can give yourself.

You've got to be fine with who you are.

If a person doesn't like me or doesn't like my game, OK, that's how they feel. Can't be upset with it.

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

The biggest obstacle I've had to overcome is loving myself 100%. And that's still a battle. I love myself, but sometimes you can be your own worst enemy. And I think I've been my worst enemy in life, because others haven't been able to do anything to me unless I allowed them to do it.

My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all.

Many of us have a need to be right. We then set out to make ourselves right by making someone else wrong. We must get right with ourselves. Once we do, we will have so much to do, we will not have time to keep track of who is wrong.

You're not perfect, but you're not your mistakes.

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.

Early in last season, George was very worried about other people's emotions, especially how they saw her, and felt she was outside looking in. This year, she still hopes people will accept her for who she is, but if they don't, she's OK with that.

I can live with myself.

I find that when we really love and accept and approve of ourselves exactly as we are, then everything in life works.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

I don't really care about being accepted now. I wish I had been like that earlier.

Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

The deepest gift you can learn in life is about self-love, and that's not going to happen overnight.

Forgiving yourself will help with giving yourself strength.

I think the best relationship you'll ever have is the one with yourself. That might even be the most important one.

I wish I could have gone back and told myself what I know now: Accepting yourself is the way to go.

We have a tendency to want the other person to be a finished product while we give ourselves the grace to evolve.

However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself.