Quotes About Acceptance

So many people are like, 'I'm perfect.' I'm so imperfect; that's why I'm able to let everything out and let people see everything. 'Cause I'm just a mess like every other person that's a mess out there.

I know so many people who are eaten up by regret. It manifests itself in so many ways. They either become mentally a bit off, or they get very fat, or they are just horribly depressed.

So many people pass up older dogs, which is a shame. With an older dog, you know what you are getting.

It's illegal to be gay in Little Rock - this is such a reality for so many people, but once people get to these bubbles of New York or L.A. or Boulder, Colorado, they forget.

What I loved the most about Oakland was that all of my neighbors came in as many colors, ideas, and religions as there are people on the planet. How lucky I was to know so many people that were so different and yet so much alike!

I've had so many people in my life put me down because of how I look. When I worked in restaurants, I had people say, 'I don't want her to serve my food,' because I looked dirty or something.

At this point, I can almost never see myself saying no to a con or a 'Charmed' reunion, because it's so important to so many people I've already met personally.

I love the fact that there are so many people who have come to appreciate what I'm doing. That is just the best feeling in the world.

So many people ask, 'How could you forgive your mother for the way you were raised?' It's really not forgiveness, in my opinion. It's acceptance. She's never going to be the sort of mother who wants to take care of me.

So many people have gone through the experience of not feeling good enough.

I very much wanted the perfect nuclear family, and I came from the perfect nuclear family, but like so many people, that isn't the way things have worked out.

It's great that we have so many people from so many diverse background in the 'Drag Race' family.

I've been compared to so many people - Streisand, Celine - it doesn't bother me. Why worry about being compared to the best?

I think it frustrates me that so many people have bought into the idea of what we should look like instead of actually giving a crap about everyone around you.

So many years later, you watch yourself, and you're not critical of yourself anymore 'cause that's behind you.

Sexuality didn't come into it when I was bullied, but for so many years, being LGBTQ was one of the biggest things you would be bullied for at school. Hopefully, as time goes on, it will be a completely accepted thing that people won't have to think about.

I spent so many years shuffled around. I'm used to it and can deal with it.

For so many years of my career, I was The Big Show. So in the back of my mind - whether it was 'fat' or aesthetically not pleasing or whatever crap people want to sling around - I enjoyed being The Big Show. I enjoyed being 450 pounds.

For so many years, I thought I wasn't good enough.

I spent so many years not understanding my own gender identity and not having the language for it, and not having those conversations, that now I'm so eager to talk about it. Then I learn more about myself and other people.

Sister Hinckley and I are learning that the so-called golden years are laced with lead.

I think for a lot of so-called post-colonial peoples, there's a feeling of not being quite legitimate, of not being pure enough.

The cancer is something completely out of my control, but the fear, I realized, is not.

The world is not disturbing you, you are disturbing yourself about the world.