Quotes About Self-acceptance

I have no regrets except that I was born a woman instead of a man.

I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.

The point isn't to live without any regrets. The point is to not hate ourselves for having them.

I don't have regrets because they are negative.

I haven't done anything I regret; I don't live for regrets. I'm not a mean person, so I don't go around doing evil things to people.

Football is about opinions, but love me or hate me, I don't really care. I genuinely wouldn't change anything. I don't have any regrets.

I'm definitely bigger than a Rihanna. Pop stars nowadays are all perfect Barbie-doll bodies, and they talk about how they keep their bodies up with hard work, so in my eyes, it's good to have a regular, average body type in the charts.

I'm just a regular guy. All these ideas that children shouldn't watch me, I'm going to be confusing, all this stuff, it's crazy.

Were I to put myself on... one of those online dating things, I would not include in my profile that I'm regularly hospitalized for psychosis. But I do know that when I get really bad, there is a place for me to go where I will feel better.

Once I started eating right and exercising regularly, I realized that I had done everything I could possibly do and this is the body I was given... and I must embrace it.

I did some modelling when I was 16 and was told I was a 'palatable kind of brown.' That hit me quite hard. You're not brought up to think it's good to be different and the fashion industry has a responsibility to not reinforce that impression.

Don't reject a shoe because you can't run in it. It's OK not to run.

Before the advent of the white man, black people were doing all kinds of things with their hair. The rejection of kinks and curls did come with the white man.

When I first started modeling it taught me to face rejection. In the industry and life in general there are going to be a lot of people who don't like you or understand you, you have to be ok with the fact that what other people think really doesn't matter.

Really rejoice in being yourself. Have your own drumbeat.

Being biracial is so much a part of who I am that it's almost, 'Let it go already.' It's intrinsic to me. I think a lot of my fans relate to me because they felt different.

I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.

Almost everything I do is related to being fat.

As far as girly-ness goes, I never wear makeup, if I've got zits on my face I just let them go. So I've always just related to guys on that level.

I don't have anything to prove anymore. I can relax.

Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so much happier in general.

I'm alright with being disliked rather than trying to be perfect, because you get to relax then.

I'm finally just relaxed and comfortable with who I am.

I'm more relaxed and just feel like there's kind of a peace with myself.