Quotes About Acceptance

she didn't colour her hair, which was lost in the dead man's land between brown and grey.

Your mind is like a parachute; it only works when it is open.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

Be skeptical of everything but closed minded to nothing.

I stopped hating and started just being. My whole life, I had been the most defensive person you'd meet, unable to tolerate any criticism. But now I started listening and being.

I understand and accept criticisms of my work, provided they are done with professional criteria and arguments.

I don't mind playing even a grandfather provided the role is good.

It is very overwhelming to find that you are loved by people belonging to different provinces and cultures. They give me the energy.

My company, East West, was founded on the premise that people need to group together and not be xenophobic, parochial, or provincial.

I used to come up with these crazy jobs to try and provoke my parents but they said, 'You can be anything you want.' So I was like, 'I want to be a garbage man' and they were like 'That's OK, we'll still love you!'

When you live in an environment where you aren't allowed to be fully who you are, you aren't taken seriously, and you aren't respected. What that actually does to a person's confidence and psyche is really fascinating to me.

Feminists were psyched that I had armpit hair.

I would never be like, 'Hey, I'm fat!' or, like, be psyched if somebody calls me fat in a review.

So Am I' is sonically like similar to 'Psycho' and energy-wise.

To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something you cannot possibly escape: your psychological make-up is such that you are inclined to look back over your shoulder.

Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us - high and low, light and dark - is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.

I learnt a lot from a psychological point of view about having to move on and flush things and not live on previous mistakes.

While as black people we've paid for our right to be in this country many, many times over, I still can't help but feel we psychologically still see ourselves as outsiders. I believe this is our country. As such we need to embrace it fully.

Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

The psychology of a language which, in one way or another, is imposed upon one because of factors beyond one's control, is very different from the psychology of a language which one accepts of one's free will.

I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.

Since puberty, I've always known there was a possibility of me being with a man. It wasn't anything I felt the need to explore until the time came to explore it.

I'm an orphan. But the public has adopted me, and that has been my only family. The biggest family in the world is my fans.

I believe that people should take pride in what they do, even if it is scorned or misunderstood by the public at large.