Quotes About Acceptance

Once you can accept that you have a mental illness, that is when you can work on it.

I have an illness. I have a mental illness. I've accepted that now. Before, I used to beat myself up all the time, but the more you talk about it, the more it takes the power out of it.

Mental illness is a fact of life, like cancer or heart disease.

We need to be open about mental illness, and demand the mental health services we need.

I've thought about my relationship to my body, my body dysmorphia, and what that means as someone who's like, 'Oh, I'm going to be on camera.' Sometimes it makes my body dysmorphia worse, but I've also tried to not let my mental illness rob the joy of getting to do something I've always wanted to do.

I have the mentality that sometimes a role is just meant for someone else. If you're supposed to get a part, the light will shine on you. And if not, nothing you do is going to help.

I have what some people consider to be a 'hippie' mentality.

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

Well, I think it's important to stand as an advocate for the mentally ill.

The difficult thing with mental illness is that there's no one to blame. You can't blame a person who's mentally ill, because they didn't ask for it! There's no choice to it.

The biggest thing for Asian players to remember is the football style is different in Europe - as is the culture - so they have to accept that. Mentally, they need to be ready and very strong.

You've got to get your head right about ageing. Taking care of diet and exercise and facing your fears about growing older will lead you into a happier place emotionally and mentally. You feel like you have a choice.

People are obviously going to mention what I look like, but it's a shame it has to be a key part. I can't just be Miranda.

People are always going to be negative when they mention my name, but I can accept that and that's what makes it easier for me to go on.

Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.

Excuse the mess but we live here.

No matter how bad you mess up, God loves you, and there's nothing you can do about it.

My early life was a bit of a mess but it was no one's fault. It was just how it was.

Guys on Team U.S.A. were calling me Iggy just to mess with me. I've been called that since I was a kid. I don't care.

We make a mess of things sometimes but that doesn't make you bad - it makes you human.

I think there are times in a lot of people's pasts where they've unintentionally fallen in love with really damaged people. You go out with someone who's a mess so you can feel less of a mess.

I am failing as a woman. I am failing as a feminist. To freely accept the feminist label would not be fair to good feminists. If I am, indeed, a feminist, I am a rather bad one. I am a mess of contradictions.

I was, am, and likely forever will be a huge mess.

I just think that we're all humans; we all mess up. It's okay: we should give people room to learn from their mistakes. That's how evolution happens.