CURATED COLLECTION

Accepting Yourself

The most difficult peace to make is with the person you already are.

50 quotes found

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Imperfections are not inadequacies; they are reminders that we're all in this together.

—Brené BrownAuthor

Contemporary ERA • North America

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My poems are a diary, my poetry is a poetry of proper names.

—Marina TsvetaevaPoet

Early Modern ERA • Eastern Europe

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Your story matters, even the parts that feel broken. Especially those parts.

—Roseanne A. BrownAuthor

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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Love is an attempt to penetrate another being, but it can only be realized if the surrender is mutual.

—Octavio PazPoet, Diplomat & Essayist

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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I just sing about my life and what I feel. It has to be genuine.

—TemsScholar & Thinker

Digital Age ERA • West Africa

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Even if you dislike a woman, it is still possible to understand her.

—Zhang AilingWriter & Novelist

Early Modern ERA • East Asia

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I love you with two loves: a selfish love and a love worthy of you.

—Rabia al-AdawiyyaMystic & Poet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Mi alma quiere irse de mi cuerpo, por un beso.

—Delmira AgustiniPoet

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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Take me now while it is early and I carry the bouquet of my first violets.

—Juana de IbarbourouPoet

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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Writing is a way of saying things that are too difficult to say any other way.

—Maryse CondéNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Caribbean

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I want to apologize to all the women I have called beautiful before I called myself beautiful.

—Rupi KaurPoet

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.

—Rupi KaurPoet

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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Document the moments that you feel most in love with yourself.

—Warsan ShirePoet

Digital Age ERA • East Africa

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We don't need to be perfect to be loved. We need to be human.

—Alain de BottonAuthor & Philosopher

Digital Age ERA • Western Europe

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He was more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

—Emily BrontëNovelist & Poet

Industrial Age ERA • Western Europe

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My heart is a seed, waiting to bloom in another land.

—Julia de BurgosPoet & Activist

Post-War ERA • Caribbean

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I am the river, and you are its shores.

—Julia de BurgosPoet & Activist

Early Modern ERA • Caribbean

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Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

—Eleanor RooseveltDiplomat & Activist

Post-War ERA • North America

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Storytelling is how we make sense of our lives, our history, our deep connections.

—Judith Ortiz CoferWriter

Late Modern ERA • Caribbean

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Perhaps He opened a door, but you did not enter it out of shyness.

—Ibn Ata Allah al-IskandariScholar & Author

Medieval ERA • North Africa

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