Quotes About Acceptance

Beneath the 30 pounds of makeup and corsets and gowns are real beating hearts of real people and they usually come from a place of pain.

If you're a real person, I don't care if you blue - I'm going to be your friend. Everybody's tired of all of the hatred and animosity. I just want to live.

If your religion is better than mine and your opinion, you have a real problem.

I just have a real problem with people who seek to portray fatness or thinness as moral concepts.

There was nothing about Bobby I didn't like... I guess I never understood why he took a left-hand turn when real success came. We got along better from 1990 until his death in 2003. I had accepted him for who he was.

Heartbreak is a real thing.

What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for all of those hundreds of commercial auditions that I went on and no one ever wanted me for is what made me perfectly right for 'Real Women Have Curves'.

Anyone can wear my dresses. They will look good on any figure, no matter what shape you are. I want to celebrate a woman's inner strength, to inspire real women and make them feel confident and beautiful.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.

Finding out I was pretty was a very nice realisation.

My confidence comes from the realisation that, actually, the best you can be is you, learning to accept who I was, what I wanted, and that I was more than my body.

I came to the realisation, rather late in the day, that whatever your body's meant to be, it will figure itself out.

I guess that's the main thing when someone dies, the realisation that you won't get to be with them and talk to them.

I always had long hair. When you lose it, you realise just how important it is to your identity.

I didn't realise until I did CBT that I was a perfectionist. Whenever you do anything, there are always going to be things that go wrong, it's never going to be 100 per cent perfect. Because of how I was, I'd focus on those bits and always see the negative in anything.

I usually don't talk for three days after a defeat. Then you have an epiphany and realise it's just a game.

There is a level of confidence you need before the day comes when you realise that what makes you different is really the greatest thing.

As you get older, you know what you're good at and you know what you're not so good at. Your ego comes out of it, and then you realise you can't play every game, there'll be certain games where you won't be so affected... so you've just got to concentrate on what you are.

In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

It's very shocking, I think, for people caring for the dying to realise how unsaintly they feel, how much anger is mixed up with their grief. In fact, often I think the anger that they feel is a form of grief; it's a kind of raging against what's happening.

I do think that when you get older, you kind of learn not to judge because you realise that no one's perfect, and we're all fighting our own private demons.

Once people start to realise that colour is just that, it's just a colour, then things got a bit smoother.

When you come from a place and an identity, you can feel constricted and have to get away. But then you realise how much a part of you it is.

You don't realise how cool your culture is until you get out of that phase of trying to fit in.