Michael Palin Quotes

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

I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.

You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.

You have to accept yourself so everyone else can.

I will never, ever sit here and say, 'Oh my God, I'm so confident now, I love myself', because I don't.

I so desperately wanted to be honest, and I so desperately wanted to love myself and accept myself for who I was.

I wish I could have gone back and told myself what I know now: Accepting yourself is the way to go.

Total self acceptance is empowering. It means allowing others to see you as they choose, without being offended.

One of the biggest things I've done is learn how to love myself, flaws and all. Even the things I don't like about myself, I accept. People have made fun of me and made me self-conscious about talking so softly, for example, but I accept that as who I am and I'm not changing it for anybody. I'm at peace with who I am now, and once you've achieved that, all the other stuff disappears.

The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength.

I'll never forget one time a fan came up to me crying, and told me, 'You really inspire me to be me. I feel OK to be myself now.'

I don't think I like characters who are afraid and ashamed of who they are.

I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.

With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl.

The truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

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

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

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.

You don't have to look like George Clooney. You just have to know yourself.

You always gotta reach the people who feel bad about themselves or insecure about themselves, and I think 'Like 'Em All' was just a perfect song for all the girls, and I think that's why it blew up like it did.

There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I've realized that it's time for me to show my audience that you don't have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like the bottom line or attendance or standardized test scores, you are sadly, sadly mistaken. It underpins everything.

Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves.