Kristen Bell Quotes

I'm learning to embrace who I am and what I look like.

When I was around 18, I looked in the mirror and said, 'You're either going to love yourself or hate yourself.' And I decided to love myself. That changed a lot of things.

That is the thing I want to tell girls, to stop criticising yourselves and to stop comparing yourself to other people.

I feel like there's more to life then worrying about the way that you look.

I love myself and I love my body.

Love yourself first and everything falls into line.

Trust Me. Life is not worth living feeling sad and down and lonely. Always be true to who you are.

Self love is a great recurring theme, the headwaters that feed my ability to be the best version of myself in every other aspect of my life. Self worth sets the standard that life meets.

Letting yourself off the hook takes the stress away.

Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it "the first law of personal growth".

I am comfortable with my body and embrace who I am. I love to work it.

Reclaiming the word 'fat' was the most empowering step in my progress. I stopped using it for insult or degradation and instead replaced it with truth, because the truth is that I am fat, and that's ok. So now when someone calls me fat, I agree, whereas before I would get embarrassed and emotional.

I'm much more accepting of myself. A lot of my body issues have naturally settled down.

Well-being is how I feel in my skin, not about how other people are looking at me and what they see... it's what I feel like.

To be totally honest, if I could be thinner without it causing a lot of pain and anxiety in my life, I would be. But today the reality is my life is more important to me than my weight - and thank God for that.

I struggled with self-esteem issues as a young girl, and it was not until my gymnastics career was completed in 2000 that I realized my accomplishments would not have been possible without my type of body, and I finally started to appreciate and celebrate myself.

I was doing a children's book on self-esteem, and I really felt like I wanted to shed the shame I'd been feeling - and maybe make it easier for women my age who had probably felt bad about themselves.

I used to be smaller than I am now, and it didn't make my life any easier. It's not really about your body. It's about what's going on inside, in your head and your heart.

It's important to feel beautiful; it's political to feel beautiful.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

There definitely was a time when I was pretty obsessed with my weight, but I'm better off not stressing about my body all the time.

I do think moms should be given a break, all across the board. And I think that the most important thing is that you're healthy. After I had my little girl, I wanted to be healthy for her and have a healthy body image so that she hopefully grows up to see that her self worth isn't defined by how thin she is.

I care about me now. When I didn't care about me, I was, like, 'Why is this going wrong? Why is my life so bad?' But when you don't care about yourself, nobody else is going to care about you. So I learned to love myself, even if nobody else does.

Nudity is natural but not until a person accepts and loves who they are.

Changing what you don't like about yourself can be empowering, and that's not a bad thing. Feeling secure enough to own what is weak and missing from either your body, mind or spirit and to commit to action to change it is a good thing.