Quotes About Acceptance

Some people lose a whole world to grief sometimes, while others just don't grieve. Sometimes we're just too scared to face our emotions.

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

It can be frightening. I think, 'I don't want to go.' But I give myself room to grieve.

I didn't realize I was still grieving for my father at 30-something.

Every one of us have been disappointed before and have had to go through the grieving process of anger and, you know, disappointment and then acceptance and forgiveness.

If you're afraid of death, I would say, either fight for your life or come to grips with the fact you may not make it. And in doing that there shouldn't be bitterness. There should be a celebration. There should be an understanding of how lucky you are. That's how I feel.

I'll never tell you I'm able to come to grips with 0-and-16.

We all seek approval, and our mother's seal is usually the most important. The nitty gritty is that we have to accept ourselves, even if it is just to be ready for the next cut-down. Mom's blessing or not.

I'd like to change my butt. It hangs a little too long. God forbid what it will look like when I'm older. It will probably be dragging along on the ground behind me.

If you get a wrinkle, I don't feel that's indicative of your losing ground. That's ridiculous.

I am so far more secure and more grounded and more know who I am than when I was in my 20s.

We are grounded in the reality of the day and grounded in the technology of the day. Just saying 'turn the taps off' is not acceptable to humanity.

Discomfort isn't grounds for discrimination. We have a big country with a lot of different kinds of people in it.

I had friends at school, but I was never part of a gang and I dreamed of that sense of belonging to a group. You know, where people would call me 'Em' and shout across the bar, 'Em, what are you drinking?' after the show.

I know what it's like to be in the closet! I know what it's like to be bullied and attacked because someone or some group thought I was different or below them... so, I'm coming out of the closet as an ally of equality for everyone; as an ally to hope.

Try to have as diverse group of friends as possible and don't get into the the clique scenario.

By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group.

I have never been able to see myself as fitting into one category, and I have never been able to limit my contact with people to one group of people.

It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

When you meet someone, of course you want it to last forever. It'd be very depressing if you didn't feel that way. But things change, and you maybe grow apart. You have to accept that.

I can't grow a beard.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

I never thought to myself, I'm going to grow up and fall in love with a man or I'm going to fall in love with a woman because my mother is a lesbian.