Quotes About Acceptance

In L.A., when I was there, I really felt beloved. But the minute you get out of there, it's like everyone else hates you.

I am not able of hating. I am not able of hating.

I think we've gotten to a point where we're becoming really sensitive to things like body dysmorphia, but I think it's gone too far, where people are accusing everyone of hating themselves.

Love is love. And it's much better than hatred and fear.

I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree.

I don't remember ever being full of dislike and hatred for people, like some kids I've come across now.

People with hatred have always something to get off their chests, but I wasn't ready to be that drain.

I have no hatred for people I don't know.

Unless you come to terms with your past... it haunts you, and you never leave it.

If you don't work through the things that haunt you early, they'll stay with you for the rest of your life.

A lot of the problems I had with fame I was bringing on myself. A lot of self-loathing, a lot of woe-is-me. Now I'm learning to see the positive side of things, instead of, like, 'I can't go to Kmart. I can't take my kids to the haunted house.'

I am going to go on with my life, and if they call me and say 'Yo, you are going to be in the Hall of Fame or you are going to be in this,' then I am going to say, 'So be it.' If I make it, I will go to the ceremony, and I'll have fun.

I used to try to live down that whole big-hair era, but I've come to accept it and have fun with it all.

Being gay doesn't take your brain away or exclude me from having the same attributes as anyone else.

I don't want to scar people with my baby flab. I have this extra skin that's hanging. I'm in shape, but my skin, from having a baby, is not cute, hanging off of my baby.

My body doesn't look like it did before. It's changed after having a baby... it's not better or worse, just different.

Football is for everyone, no matter what background you're from, what age, what level you play at. This is what it's all about: coming out today, having a good time, and getting involved.

I'm dying, and I'm having fun.

I grew up in Hawaii and I think it was easier because we did not have cliques at high school.

I don't see myself as beautiful. I was a kid who was freckle-faced, and they used to call me 'hay head.'

Let each person have a chance to be who he or she wants to be. Only then can we be considered a truly liberated nation.

Whether I'm 'head coach' or 'manager,' it doesn't bother me at all.

Accepting fear head-on is freeing.

You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.