Quotes About Acceptance

When I wanted to serve my country, I was forced to hide the most basic and human aspect of my life and my identity from the people to whom I was supposed to be the closest - and with whom I had to trust my life. I also had to hide from myself.

The idea that the more you hide something, the more it becomes something that's supposed to feel shameful is very true.

Before I created Christine, I was actually really girly. Maybe I was trying to hide something, but I was trying too hard to be a girl, and I didn't know what it meant. I was afraid of being myself.

I've been at the bottom. I've lost loved ones, I've lost best friends, but that's part of life. I don't hide that.

If I want to hide myself from my limitations, then I don't want to play this game.

If you hide, you won't find the eccentric people who will be your best friends.

Shame alone makes people hide, not change.

Every gay man will tell you that 'coming out' is like a weight lifted from your shoulders and beng able to walk down the street knowing that there is nothing for me to hide has been a liberating experience.

Gay people in general, I think, like telling secrets because we have to hide a huge secret for the first half of our lives. Why would we want to keep any more?

I think it's so foolish for people to try and hide their age. I don't understand that. You should be happy and glad to be living.

I used to always hide my hand, I still do. I don't really like talking about it. Sometimes I still hide it and not even realize that I'm doing it.

I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'

People are either going to accept me for who I am or they're not. I don't know what people think I'm hiding. I've heard, 'Oh, she's not a female, she's a male.'

I believe in celebrating the female figure and embracing what we've been given, not hiding that.

I think where people get into trouble is hiding and feeling ashamed about what they don't have any control over in the first place.

I was hiding behind athletics and all my jockitude, so I didn't have to deal with being ostracized as the weird art kid.

Hiding my age won't make me younger. It would be stupid to not accept the fact.

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

Every morning, I have high expectations, and then I confront the reality of what happens at 4 o'clock.

I've been embracing gray hair since... high school, and I don't think that anything's changed since then.

I see the human in everyone and everything. No one is more important than anyone else; I still hang out with my high school friends.

In late elementary school, early high school, I started losing my hair in chunks in the shower. It was one of the scariest things. It got to the point where it was visibly gone.

In high school, I never felt in with the in-crowd.

At the start of high school, I looked like a girl... to a very major degree. I had really long hair and a really round face with no facial hair. And I went to a very rough high school.