Quotes About Acceptance

Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs look like photographs.

I never tried to revolutionise photography; I just do what I do and keep my fingers crossed that people will like it.

Music, photography, media, film - it's all going to be free on the Internet. We have to accept it.

It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.

I guess if I had to put it into a single phrase, the moral of the Frank stories is that the hammer never really falls.

I don't understand why it's not okay to be plus-size. I don't know why people hate that phrase. Many models have built their careers as plus-size women and then suddenly don't want to be called that anymore. But you're still cashing checks from plus-size designers.

I have certain physical features that I favor over others. We all have our areas.

As anyone who is gay will confirm, being that way is not something you become, it is a set of emotional and physical responses that just are.

Beauty is not just physical.

We have to know that life cannot be changed by us. It will be changed. But not by us. We can only guide the things that can cause physical change.

Body love is more than acceptance of self or the acceptance of the body. Body love is about self-worth in general. It's more than our physical appearance.

The confidence is there, the game is there, but physically you can't fight nature sometimes. You can't do much about it.

As long as I can be physically healthy, I don't mind being curvy.

I keep myself safe both physically and emotionally in my working environment by 'being one of the boys.' In my head, subconsciously, that was my safe place.

I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I said, 'Well hopefully you could just call me Aimee. But if you have to describe it, I'm a bilateral below-the-knee amputee.'

I think that everyone in one way or another has some sort of body issue. There's something about themselves physically that they're not happy with, that they're ashamed of, that they keep constantly trying to change.

I love to look at physically beautiful people, and obviously others do, too. But there's such a narrow definition of what that is; the people who are my friends in life, the more I get to know them over the years, the more beautiful they are to me.

You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime.

The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

My dad is my dad, but he's not there physically anymore. But she lets me call her 'Dad' - that's the last little piece of Dad I've got.

I grew up in a very 'Friday Night Lights,' sports-focused town. I did not play the sports. I was never bullied physically, but I was called names. I was also an overweight kid. I knew what it's like to feel like the other, to feel written off for things that were not in my control - my appearance, my interests.

The older you get, the less physically and mentally robust you become.

I still have a lot of judgmentalism in me, where I'd see somebody, and I just would, you know, I disagree with this person, and you kind of automatically cast them away. And even though you don't do anything physically, you don't say anything, but people get a real sense of your heart.

I was never physically abused, but when I came out to my parents late in life, when I was 27, they definitely had an intervention.