43 Body Acceptance Quotes to Feel Great Now

Body acceptance is not about feeling great every day. It’s not about feeling great in every moment. It’s about accepting where you are, just as you are.

Accepting yourself, and your body, isn’t about telling yourself how beautiful you are when you’re down, it’s saying “this is me, this is what I have, this is who I am.”

Acceptance is not about not wanting to change yourself, it’s about recognizing who are and what you look like and realizing that you can change if you want to, but you’ll be perfectly okay just being as you are too.

It’s my firm belief that body acceptance and self-acceptance comes before body love or self-love. Without first accepting who you are and what you look like, how can you expect yourself to accept or love yourself when you’ve changed?

When you are first able to accept yourself you are then able to make decisions and judgments about yourself from a neutral place and that place, it’s a pretty damn awesome place to be.

Body Acceptance Quotes to be Inspired By

I hope these body positive quotes inspire you to accept yourself and remind you that you are never alone on your journey to body acceptance, as the majority of us are all on the same journey, but that each of our journeys are uniquely different, individually our own.

“Each individual woman’s body demands to be accepted on its own terms.” – Gloria Steinem

“Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like.” – Emma Watson

“If we make self-love or body acceptance conditional, the truth is, we will never be happy with ourselves. The reality is that our bodies are constantly changing, and they will never remain exactly the same. If we base our self-worth on something as ever-changing as our bodies, we will forever be on the emotional roller coaster of body obsession and shame.” — Chrissy King

“And I said to my body softly, ‘I want to be your friend.’ It took a long breath and replied, ‘I have been waiting my whole life for this.” — Nayyirah Waheed

“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.” — Thich Nhat Hanh

“So the question is, which boulder are you going to choose to roll? The ‘must lose weight’ boulder or the ‘fuck you I will boldly, defiantly accept the body I’ve got and LIVE IN IT’ boulder?” — Kate Harding

“Hating our bodies is something that we learn, and it sure as hell is something that we can unlearn.” — Megan Jayne Crabbe

“I don’t want to wait until I’m 73 to embrace my body. To look back and think of my beauty: How did I miss it? Let’s not wait another moment.” ― Ashley Asti

“No amount of self-improvement can make up for any lack of self-acceptance.” — Robert Holden

“Stop trying to fix your body. It was never broken.” — Eve Ensler

“You don’t have to love your body to be kind to it.” — Alissa Rumsey

“The best gift you are ever going to give someone — the permission to feel safe in their own skin.” – Hannah Brencher

“You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise Hay

“The most important day is the day you decide you’re good enough for you. It’s the day you set yourself free.” — Brittany Josephina

“You have to stand up and say, ‘There’s nothing wrong with me or my shape or who I am, you’re the one with the problem!'” — Jennifer Lopez

“My weight? It is what it is. You could get hit by a bus tomorrow. It’s about being content. And sometimes other priorities win.” — Melissa McCarthy

“You can be the most beautiful person in the world and everybody sees light and rainbows when they look at you, but if you yourself don’t know it, all of that doesn’t even matter. Every second that you spend on doubting your worth, every moment that you use to criticize yourself; is a second of your life wasted, is a moment of your life thrown away. It’s not like you have forever, so don’t waste any of your seconds, don’t throw even one of your moments away.”― C. JoyBell C.

“You look how you look. Be comfortable. What are you going to do? Be hungry every single day to make other people happy? That’s Just dumb.” — Jennifer Lawerence

“You define beauty yourself, society doesn’t define your beauty.” — Lady Gaga

“This is it: This body is home. This is where I live and hang my hat. This is where I settle into my hips and sit easy in myself, slung together with strong muscles and bones, made gentle and forging with flesh. This body is durable, has lasted for years, hunkered down through fierce storms and allows for the peaceful erosions of age. It is like a cottage on the shore: weathered and well made, a place where a person could comfortable live. I like it here. It is my own.” –Marya Hornbacher

“I think, in a way, we’ve forgotten what a regular body looks like. There are people out there who are struggling, and I’m struggling, and it’s okay to come to terms with realizing it’s going to be a bit of a journey.” -Chrissy Teigen

“We can’t hate ourselves into a version of ourselves we can love.” –Lori Deschene

“I smile just as wide no matter my current size because I’m proud of what this body has seen and done and represented.” – Lena Dunham

“Being a healthy woman isn’t about getting on a scale or measuring your waistline. We need to start focusing on what matters — on how we feel, and how we feel about ourselves.” — Michelle Obama

“There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty.”― Steve Maraboli

“Since I don’t look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.” — Serena Williams

“My body is normal, and I’m not trying to prove anything.” – Lucy Hale

“I wish I could tell my younger self that she was always more than a body. She always had more to offer the world than weight loss and flat abs. So much more.” – Megan Jayne Crabbe

“We are a gorgeous, infinite circle of women of all shades, all styles, in all the ways we were made, inside of us everything blooms.” -Alicia Keys

“In owning the parts of me that I so badly wanted to ignore and hide, I’ve dismantled the shame I’ve held for years, and began building self acceptance for myself in it’s place.” – Lenea Sims

“The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.” – Jamie Lee Curtis

“I happen to be very confident in my own skin. It takes time to get to that place, but it’s all about embracing yourself and your body.” – Christina Aguilera

“I definitely have body issues, but everybody does. When you come to the realization that everybody does that—even the people that I consider flawless—then you can start to live with the way you are.” — Taylor Swift

“People often say that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder,’ and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder.” – Salma Hayek

“I am more than my measurements…My body is MY body. I’ll call the shots.” – Ashley Graham

“It’s all about accepting yourself the way you are. If you want to work towards a better you in whatever regards…do it. But you’re okay just the way you are today.” – Tess Holiday

“For the first time, I don’t want to get rid of the curves…My body is comfortable, and it’s not unhealthy, so I’m going to rock with it.” – Rihanna

“To me, beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.” – Ellen DeGeneres

“One day I decided that I was beautiful and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. It doesn’t have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.” -Gabourey Sidibe

“Everybody has a part of her body that she doesn’t like, but I’ve stopped complaining about mine because I don’t want to critique nature’s handiwork…My job is simply to allow the light to shine out of the masterpiece.” -Alfre Woodard

“I don’t have perfect teeth. I’m not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn’t want to change anything.” — Emma Watson

“We hear the term body positivity all the time. To be honest, I don’t always feel positive about my body. Sometimes I do not like what I see. I don’t sit there and dwell on it. I also don’t lie to myself.” — Demi Lovato

“Don’t let your mind bully your body.” — June Tomaso Wood

I hope you feel a little more accepting of your body and yourself. And if you don’t, it comes. It comes with practice, with intention, with time. Have a fabulous day beauty x

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