Ivan Turgenev Quotes

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

Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

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.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving

To truly esteem oneself means that one must be capable of feeling shame or self-disgust when one does not live up to a certain standard

Pop, I'm nothing! I'm nothing, Pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it any more. I'm just what I am, that's all.

I can't control what people think of me, and I stopped really caring a long time ago.

I must let go of my need for the world to love me.

Self-esteem comes quietly, like the truth.

What other people think about me is not my business.

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.

It's really important to talk to yourself and look at yourself in the mirror and love who you are.

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

What's important is self-appreciation.

To me, self-esteem is not self-love. It is self-acknowledgment, as in recognizing and accepting who you are.

I am happy and content with and within myself.

I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

What I am is how I came out. No one's perfect and you just have to accept your flaws and learn to love yourself.

I can live with myself.

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

I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want.

I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.