Quotes About Acceptance

Despite her best intentions, she was beginning to accept the reality of the attraction she felt for him.

I had to fool the world into accepting me. I didn't seem to fit the mould of my idols.

I absolutely believed Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger loved each other in 'Brokeback Mountain.'

When I was younger, I was angry. I was boisterous and loud. I was on top of the mountain, screaming at everybody, 'Look at me!' Now I'm more of a Taoist.

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

I am Dusty's son, but I learned the hard way I was never going to be 'The American Dream.' That was difficult for me, and I made some molehills into mountains.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

As soon as something happens to us in America, everyone begins talking about healing. But before you heal, you have to mourn.

Someone who is about to die does not mourn the dead.

Mourning is not forbidden, you know.

It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.

It's hard for the Catholic Church to accept change. When the mass was no longer said in Latin, loyalists went into mourning for years.

I never relied on my beauty for anything. It was one of those things that was inevitable; you have a bit of philosophy about it. I didn't go into mourning.

I can't grow a moustache.

I grew up with the idea that someone might hate you if they knew what religion you were; being afraid to open my mouth because my accent might make people think something about me. Or even if they didn't, would they understand me?

If God gives you chocolate, you open your mouth, no?

I had such a big mouth for so long that it doesn't faze anybody anymore.

I think we all feel like misfits when we open our mouth sometimes, you know?

If you are for freedom and equal rights, which we hear a lot of talk about these days, then you have to include the LGBTQ community in that. And if you're not willing to put your time where your mouth is, then I don't know quite what you mean by commitment in your life.

In the early '90s, I wrote a play called 'Word of Mouth' in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that he's gay.

I don't move away from grief, rather through it.

If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it's difficult to belong.

If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.

When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can't move forward.