Quotes About Acceptance

You have to accept yourself so everyone else can.

I need everyone else around me to be impactful in my life in some way, and I think my fans need that, too. And I choose to accept that role.

I'm not trying to be one of those guys that's bigger than everyone else in the weight class.

Before you turn 40 you think, 'everyone else is going to die, but not me,' then you realize death is certain for everyone.

I've learned since childhood that you control only the things that you can control. Everything else, let it take care of itself.

I don't think that, if you do everything else in your life right and you happen to be gay, you're automatically going to hell.

Like everything else in the league, you want to be wanted.

I like to take music from everywhere and put it in my style and let it be accepted.

You've accepted a lot of things without evidence. Find out what the evidence is for that. Find out what the evidence is for everything that you accept.

Keep what you have; the known evil is best.

Even right in the middle of the worst times, I remember thinking that I would choose this exact life again, that I would do it all again.

I hope we can all learn to embrace who we are & not judge people who aren't exactly the same as us.

We all can't stay busy doing exactly what we want to do.

Love each other, no exceptions.

There is no one I'd like to exclude when I design. It's not like I'm trying to design for everyone. Probably can't do that. Yet I try not to exclude anyone.

Love does not exclude; it embraces. If we don't love someone outside ourselves, then very simply, we do not love ourselves.

I hope if any of my team members decide to have kids that they'll know we will be excited about it and we'll figure it out. And that is not a part of what should exclude anyone from being at the table or being in the room.

It is in nobody's interest that groups should find themselves excluded from society.

If people don't want to cast you, they give you this stupid excuse that it's because you don't fit into a certain image.

So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

When I don't win, I can't hang my head. I can't make excuses.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

At the end of 'Next to Normal,' you can see the light. 'There will be light.' That's the reason the show exists. Those are the last four words.

I do remember instances where girls would just fawn over me because they liked that I was different - exotic - to them. And they didn't use the word 'Asian' at the time. All of the aspects that make me Asian, they liked.