Quotes About Acceptance

The heart is neither given nor stolen. The heart surrenders.

Death? Since when is death failure?

If you can only feel safe when everybody else feels, thinks and looks the same as you, then you're a Hood-damned coward…not to mention a vicious tyrant in the making.

They are human, after all, and it is human nature to transform loss into a virtue. So that it might be lived with, so that it might be justified.

You are very easily exasperated, my dear. If you're a leaf trembling on a wide, deep river, relax and ride the current. It's always worked for me, I assure you.

Too old to dream of perfection, perhaps, she had instead discovered a certain delicious appeal in flaws.

But the world had its layers. To the simple it offered simplicity. To the wise it offered profundity. And the only measure of courage worth acknowledging was found in accepting where one stood in that scheme—in hard, unwavering honesty, no matter how humbling.

I cannot help what I am – and that is the first lie, the one I uttered to myself long ago.

He'd seen enough of life to know he wouldn't miss it much. His only regret was the grief his death would level upon those who cared for him. Venes

You're in high school, and you're telling your friends that you're skipping lunch to go write poetry, and they were all questioning my sexuality.

I used to have this thing about my legs. If you look at all of the Destiny's Child albums from when I was a part of the group, you never saw me in a skirt. I was always the one who wore the pants, because I felt like my legs were too skinny.

I'd go to lesbian parties. I felt like I wasn't hard enough to be butch, but I wasn't wearing heels and a skirt - I wasn't femme - so I felt like I was sort of invisible.

I was actually a very confident little kid. I would go to kindergarten in a skirt.

In the days when I wasn't being taken seriously, I wore long skirts - very conservative. But now, I dress any way I want to.

It has been difficult because I am physically there. But when it is something so sensitive, with your brain and your skull, it does probably make it a little bit easier to accept you are not going to play again, because it could be life-threatening. So that has definitely made it easier.

When you're in the closet, you feel like the sky will fall down if anyone finds out. A lot of the fear is self-generated.

Confidence comes from cutting yourself some slack.

I can play really terrible human beings, and I seem to have a quality that people can, if not necessarily forgive me those sins, at least cut me some slack.

I know what it feels like to have the door slammed firmly in my face, so I'm cool with that.

Not everyone needs to be slammed into a category and locked there.

I feel very accepted, like I never have any slander. I never have any issues. You know, like, when people see me, they respect me. It's all about how you carry yourself.

Beijing was a huge slap in the face, and it forced me to look at myself. I have to realise that this is my life.

I'm a guy who has more slapstick than Joe Cool moments in his day, so I'm not taking myself so seriously.

With me, everybody I meet always has a clean slate.