Quotes About Acceptance

For me, the opposite of scarcity is not abundance. It's enough. I'm enough. My kids are enough.

If you fall in love with someone gay and you're the opposite gender, it's not going to work.

If I can't find a way to love it, I let it go. Kind of the opposite of the popular homily.

For some strange reason, my gay life didn't get easier when I came out. Quite the opposite happened, really.

You see a woman, 22 years old, going out with a guy over 60 - and it's kind of natural. But if it happens in the opposite direction everyone says, 'What is going on there?'

I understand a woman who validates herself by getting attention from the opposite sex. I have a friend who is that to a T... Doesn't mean she isn't a good person. That's a funny character to play.

It won't take 40 years for opposition to same-sex marriage to dissipate.

I'm fat, and I support fat celebrities, like Oprah.

You could be a woman in Alabama who's a conservative Christian, or you could be a total crunchy-granola woman in Seattle and 20 years old, and both of you would watch Oprah.

I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.

You have to look to the future with optimism instead of negative ideas. Take the good and the bad and face it head on.

I'm an optimist, so I think everything can be worked out and fixed. But from having cancer I learned that even if you're even an optimist, sometimes you just have to face the facts that certain things are broken.

It's all about believing in yourself and knowing your worth and being optimistic and really just loving yourself for who you are.

I stand for a Germany that is more colorful, cool, and optimistic about the future.

There is no such thing as an optimum life.

But I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

I'm kind of comfortable with getting older because it's better than the other option, which is being dead. So I'll take getting older.

I don't want everyone to like me, and I don't choose who likes me. You have to give them the choice, give them the option.

You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion.

Growing up, I always wanted kids, and that was one of the things that made it hard for me to accept being gay, but now I know it's totally an option to have kids.

My relationship with Joe Silva has always been him saying 'hey I want you to fight this day' and it's like alright sounds good. I don't really look at it as an option.

At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.

I didn't know there were options like gender neutral or gender fluid. I later realized you could be a girl and dress like a guy.

At my worst, I was a size 22, and at that size, you can't go down the high street and buy yourself things that make you feel good. Your shopping options are limited in a way they aren't when you are a size 12.