Quotes About Acceptance

I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.

People assume that death hanging over my head would allow me to put things into perspective, but that's not how it works.

I never quite fit in - at least, from my own perspective, you know.

A doctor, a judge, or a piece of paper shouldn't have the power to tell someone who he or she is. We should all have the absolute and inalienable right to define ourselves, in our own terms and in our own languages, and to be able to express our identity and perspectives without fear of consequences and retribution.

I'm not in love, but I'm open to persuasion.

I love all our Father's children of every color, creed, and political persuasion.

Pessimism, when you get used to it, is just as agreeable as optimism.

When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Cats don't like change without their consent.

When I got my overall deal at Fox, I got amazing bosses in John Landgraf and Dana Walden and Peter Rice. For the first time ever, they said, 'Don't change who you are; be who you are. And write something you want to watch.' That thing was 'Glee,' and it took off from there.

I wouldn't get asked to dances because I wasn't as petite and cute as the other girls.

You'll find people who rib you about their age are petrified about getting old. It doesn't bother me.

It's important to remember that the animals are not grieving with us. They're very accepting. They're not lying there thinking 'How could you do this to me? Why aren't you keeping me going?' Pets don't do the human things of guilt and anger and recrimination that we do. They come and go with great acceptance.

I've learned from my pets that it's okay to sit around, and people don't love you any less if you sit around all the time. In fact they might love you more, 'cos they always know where you're always going to be: you're always going to be laying in bed.

My sexuality is not a phase. I am who I am.

It's not about, 'Let me play as long as I can so I don't have to grow up.' It's about, 'Let me play as long as I enjoy it,' and when it's time to step away, I can step away gracefully even if I'm still good enough to keep playing, because I'm ready for that next phase.

The honeymoon phase always ends, for everyone.

As I began to grow, my family thought my obsessive interest in girly things was just a normal developmental phase.

I went through a really good-looking phase from birth to 9. And then things went crazy. I don't know what happened, but between 9 and 14 it was really, really rough. I didn't have a lot of friends. The only ones who were nice to me were the theater kids. And they were like, 'You can come and join us. No one likes us.'

I had a girlfriend before I ever had a boyfriend, but it was just a phase.

I believe acting also has a retirement phase. Unfortunately, no one in the industry is ready to accept that.

Being a woman, I want to look pretty in every phase of my life.