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Quotes About Acceptance

If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.
~ Tori Amos
I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul. Dive deep into your soul and explore it. I don't want to renounce my dark side. The truth has always held an enormous interest for me.
~ Tori Amos
Healing for me is being able to sit next to the butcher and say 'Yes, I'm sitting next to the butcher now,' instead of saying 'there is no butcher'.
~ Tori Amos
Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.
~ Tori Amos
She told me once there is a part of her in everyone, though Neil believes I'm more Delirium than Tori, and Death taught me to accept that, you know, wear your butterflies with pride.
~ Tori Amos
From the ancient Inanna forcing herself to the underworld to visit her sister, Ereshkigal— passing through the seven gates of the underworld and then being hung on a hook, rotting— where she had to look at her sister, and her sister had to look at her. Both needed to see inside themselves, to see inside their own shadows. To come to terms with who they really were, not who they thought they were.
~ Tori Amos
Listen—when you're on the toilet, from the point of view of the toilet, you are not an icon taking a crap. You are a bottom taking a crap. If you can get that, you're going to be okay.
~ Tori Amos
I was having a cup of tea with Mohammed and saying that there are as many belief systems as there are people; to not acknowledge that means chaos, really. Of course, I had to bring Gladys Knight into it. She's a bit of a goddess.
~ Tori Amos
I'm too wacky for most weirdos. Who am I to judge?
~ Tori Amos
Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don`t fit into boxes.
~ Tori Amos
The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.
~ Tori Amos
Over the last few hours I've allowed myself to feel defeated, and just like she said if you allow yourself to feel the way you really feel, maybe you won't be afraid of that feeling anymore.
~ Tori Amos
I want to be a positive role-model for my daughter. The last thing I want to put out there is that it's acceptable to be too thin or have an eating disorder because you're in Hollywood.
~ Tori Spelling
My kids will grow up in a house knowing that it's perfectly normal for two men to be in love, it's perfectly normal for two women to be in love. My kids will grow up knowing it's all about love. It doesn't matter who you're with and everyone should have that experience.
~ Tori Spelling
I'm all for same-sex marriage.
~ Tori Spelling
I love my mom. My mom loves me. We don't have an easy relationship. I don't think we ever will, but I'd rather have a complicated, misunderstood relationship than have no relationship at all.
~ Tori Spelling
I was dating a guy that was a huge wrestling fan and I'm embarrassed to say it now but I used to make fun of him for watching it.
~ Torrie Wilson
Hygge is a state of being you experience if you are at peace with yourself, your spouse, the tax authorities and your inner organs.
~ Tove Ditlevsen
Hun gav sig omsider til at elske verden, men kun fordi den skulle udslettes sammen med hende.
~ Tove Ditlevsen
Jeg har tit nok været bange for livet, men aldrig døden.
~ Tove Ditlevsen
My classmates find me unceasingly, overwhelmingly comical, and I've gotten used to the clown role and even find a sad comfort in it, because together with my confirmed stupidity, it protects me against their peculiar meanness toward anyone who is different.
~ Tove Ditlevsen
and the fear came back like a faithful friend who doesn't care whether return his feelings or not.
~ Tove Ditlevsen
It's strange," Moominmamma thought. "Strange that people can be sad, and even angry because life is too easy. But that's the way it is, I suppose. The only thing to do is to start life afresh.
~ Tove Jansson
The Hemulen, moaning piteously, thrust his nose into the sand. "This has gone too far!" he said. "Why can't a poor innocent botanist live his life in peace and quiet?" "Life is not peaceful," said Snufkin, contentedly.
~ Tove Jansson