Quotes About Acceptance

I love you Philadelphia. I want to thank you for accepting me, and letting me be me and make this my home forever.

A lot of times girls think they're funny, but they want to pretty at the same time, and if you want to be funny, you have to be willing to get ugly.

We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.

Try becoming a person people want to be with rather than conforming yourself to the false identity of what you conceive their ideal to be.

People are afraid, people don't want to be rejected.

It was probably good you couldn't flip the love switch because sometimes it was what you needed even if you didn't want it.

I believe, in my better moments, that there is a plan and things go not the way we want them to but the way they should.

You can pout about the way the world is as long as you want, but that's not going to change it. You've got to figure it out.

It's like you wanting to marry Miss World and she doesn't want you, what can I do about it? I can try to help you, but if she does not want to marry you what can I do?

There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans.

I've never gotten over high school, to the extent that I'm still a little surprised that my friends want to hang out with me.

But sometimes, it's harder to admit to ourselves we want love in our lives than it is to keep living without it.

To men pressed by their wants all change is ever welcome.

It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't want to change into a bit of this and a bit of that.

I think it's only right that crazy people should have their own city, but I cannot for the life of me see why a sane person would want to go there.

If we really knew who God created us to be we would never want to be someone else.

There's a part of all of us whose impulse is to say, "Let's keep everything the same until I die and then you can do whatever you want afterward." And that's a difficult part.

One thing I want to teach my son is sensitivity to other people. I want to teach him not to be this macho freak.

I've had to write in a different way because I'm not in a bad place and I'm not heartbroken, so there's no one I want revenge on.

I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be.

Who you are is always enough. If your partner wants something different, it does not reflect upon you, but upon their needs and fantasies.

Being nonconfrontational allows people to feel like they can say anything they want.

I'm mostly just getting used to the idea that people want to hear what I have to say.

I'm not trying to be a spokeswoman for the transgender community; I just want to be looked at as a living, breathing, happy human being.