Quotes About Acceptance

I felt unworthy, and it's amazing how God kind of showed me that that's how we act as humans, and that's sometimes how we act in our Christian life.

I've always felt, as a person, that I wanted to make people feel included and loved because I think at some point in all of our lives, we've felt not included and unworthy, especially in terms of appearances.

You can't judge a book by its cover until you open up and read it. There are going be a million stories out there, true or not true. I say get to know me first before you judge me.

Football sometimes goes up and down, and we need to accept the result.

Like most women, my weight goes up and down.

Anyone that plays knows football is up and down. As much as you want to, you can't control everything. You take what positives you can.

Sometimes I do find myself out there, looking for answers. But maybe there are no answers, maybe there is no rhyme or reason. Thats life, its up and down and Ive had my fair share of both.

I'm not completely straight up and down, I'm curvy, so I think I'm sort of a normal shape, wearing normal clothes.

I've always been very honest about the fact my weight goes up and down, but I think that's the same for a lot of people.

We all have baggage from our upbringing! That's life!

I'm glad that I had the upbringing I did where I was just part of what everyone else was a part of. And prom and all that.

Everybody has their own story or they've been shaped by their upbringing, and we have to love them for what that experience created.

You can feel very strongly that someone doesn't like you. I think any model who didn't have the same sort of upbringing as me would find that very difficult. But I absolutely knew I was entitled. I never thought I was ugly - it never crossed my mind.

I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.

My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing - all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.

I was friends with all different people and all different groups. And that led me to being friends with a few people who didn't even go to my school. Now I have the most amazing collection of friends of all ethnic backgrounds and upbringing and financial backgrounds.

I did have quite a different upbringing to a lot of my peers. We all have a sort of code that we get, especially as Beatles kids. It's an unspoken sort of word of understanding. But I'm comfortable around a lot of different types of people.

There was a stage when I was a little embarrassed about my Asian upbringing.

My mother was a Muslim and dad a Hindu. I got the best upbringing that anyone could. Never did I see any angst in my family owing to that: each practiced their own religion. My existence is the harmony that these two communities can achieve if they try.

Where I come from, the family, upbringing, whatever I have seen in life, I know for sure that nothing is permanent.

The key thing I took from my upbringing is that people are just people. My parents never worried about status.

I wish we could treat our bodies as the place we live from, rather than regard it as a place to be worked on, as though it were a disagreeable old kitchen in need of renovation and update.

I'd definitely pose nude again. No qualms. I actually had my breasts done again. Just updated, like new tires.

Even before I came out, looking at me, I've probably looked a little gay. I had short hair, and, you know, it wasn't a huge surprise to people. But some athletes have this image to uphold and may feel like sponsors won't want them if they're gay.