Quotes About Acceptance

Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.

The beautiful gift of my husband is that he saw me the way I've always wanted to be seen and there's something really powerful to that. When you find true love I really believe that that's what it is at its core.

How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

My passion, personally, is being my true self while inspiring young people who are struggling with their identities to love themselves for who they are.

I look at this world we live in now where someone like Lil Nas X can push forward his true self, full of pride and self-love and have the chance to be loved for who he truly is. I was realising with great sadness that I didnt get that experience.

I had gotten to a place where I truly believed everything I was called: 'not sexy,' 'not funny,' 'too intense,' desperate.' All those labels they gave me, I took them because there wasn't a trace of my true self left.

When you're able to be honest with yourself about who you are and finally can present your authentic true self to the world, you feel so much better about yourself, and it makes it easier for everyone else to feel better about you.

I think that the major message in 'Shrek: The Musical' is be who you want to be. I think that it is about being your true self in this world.

How could anyone like me for my true self? Being gay, disabled, loud and funny was too much in one 5ft person.

My son the other day was looking and found a grey hair and started crying because he thought I was going to die. That's a true story. So I had to assure him that a couple grey hairs doesn't mean I'm going to die.

Whenever you write a true story, it's not going to go over 100 percent well with everybody.

My own strong feeling was that the gay liberation movement really got national attraction in the truest sense of the word later in the '70s, in the '80s, and especially in the '90s.

When you love someone absolutely and want them to be their truest self - even though that means losing them in some capacity - that is the most important thing.

In high school, I came out to my friends as queer. My entire world opened up; this was a monumental step toward unveiling my truest self. I had my first girlfriend when I was sixteen years old.

Many people say, 'Your dad was so ahead of his time,' and he was a feminist in the truest sense, but he's very much for opportunities for all people... To him, a soccer player is a soccer player.

You're your truest self when you're young, and when somebody says something, and you're like, 'Oh, maybe I'm not normal,' you shut it down. It's always a process to rediscover those parts of yourself.

I look back, and I have no regrets, truly. Everything led me to the place where I am now.

I truly believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

If our condition were truly happy, we would not seek diversion from it in order to make ourselves happy.

We have all had, on all sides of the House - some truly appalling things said about us. I've been called a race traitor, a coconut, a sell out. It's horrible and it's never the kind of thing that should be normalised or accepted.

You have to be in the world to understand what the spiritual is about, and you have to be spiritual in order to truly be able to accept what the world is about.

Right after I got out of the military, I realized that I wasn't surrounded by men all of the time. I started behaving - and outwardly - how I truly felt inside. And I decided that it would be a good idea if I transitioned.

You truly have to make the very best of what you've got. We all do.

I truly believe diversity is beauty.