inner acceptance Quotes

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong with the fearful, the true mixed in with the façade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.

Whatever is arising in this moment, whatever condition, is part of the isness of life and therefore accepting it fully makes you an expression of the enormous power of life itself-true intelligence, which only comes when you stop obstructing the power of the present moment.

If you can't love who you are now, you can't get to the place you want to be.

I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.

Be kind to yourself and take the time you need to define your gender and sexuality in a way that feels safe and right for you.

People sometimes ask when I learned to love myself. But that was not the issue.

If we accept all that is wrong about us - and despite it, believe that we are deserving of a happy life - then we will have thrown open an immense window that will allow love to enter.

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly

Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire; it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we have

You're not going to be perfect, but the most important thing is not trying to please anybody. It's loving yourself inside out.

I know my family loves me, but the hardest part is to love myself.

As we come to know God better, we will also find it easier to know, follow, and accept His will for our life.

I have made a living off the way I look, and I have really learnt to accept myself for being unusual.

If you want to wear something, all that matters is that you love it, not what other people think. Learn to love yourself!

Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only knew who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am. What in fact I am, if only the Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed experience of Not-Two. In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soap.

Can you truly love anyone if you do not first love yourself? If you hate yourself, can you love anyone else? If you do not accept all of who you are, can you accept anyone else? Hard questions. It remains to be seen whether I get any answers, hard, or otherwise.

Accept yourself as you are right now; an imperfect, changing, growing and worthy person.

Sometimes you meet yourself on the road before you have a chance to learn the appropriate greeting. Faced with your own possibilities, the hard part is knowing a speech is not required. All you have to say is yes.

If there's a message, it's that the unlovable and unattractive parts of ourselves should be embraced. The only real currency between people is what happens when they're not cool. And I hope people feel OK about not being cool.

It's what we all wanted when we were children- to be loved and accepted exactly as we were then, not when we got taller or thinner or prettier...and we still want it... but we aren't going to get it from other people until we can get it from ourselves.

The mind never fully accepts any convictions that it does not owe to its own efforts.

The most powerful state for a human to be in is the state of embracing completely the reality of what is - Now. It is to say "Yes" to life, which is now and always now. There is a vast power in that "Yes," that state of inner non-resistance to what is.

I remember thinking, 'If I don't love the woman that I look at in the mirror, I am never going to be successful.' That was the moment I had to start convincing myself to look in the mirror and start saying, 'I love you.'

I think I'm lovable. That's the gift God gave me. I don't do anything to be lovable. I have no control.