Quotes About Acceptance

What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?

To be weak, and to know it, is something of a punishment for a proud man.

I get tired too, just like everybody else. Sometimes I tell people that, but all I get is people saying that being vulnerable and weak is just not like me. I rarely get the response of emotional support I want. But sometimes I need it.

If people weren't watching, I'd be so much more eccentric. I know it makes me sound weak, but rather than make myself happy and wear the silly hat and say, 'Oh, I don't care,' I actually really don't feel like getting made fun of. So I put on something boring and navy and go out and try to disappear.

I was a weak kid, not good at what all the boys at school were good at and I found that by acting, by being other people, I could liberate myself from those inadequacies.

A lot of times, people are ashamed of feeling weak and being rejected - so it's liberating to be able to sing about those things. And it's amazing when other people don't feel alone because they hear it.

Remember that it's okay to get help, and it doesn't make you weak.

I just want to send a message to my fans saying that it's OK to admit that you need help, and it doesn't make you weak.

I try to listen to all music with an open head, a clear head, try not to say just because I don't know it, it's weak.

As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.

I don't mind if my performances get dissected and people criticise what I've done on the pitch. They can talk about my game 24/7 for all I care. And a lot of those opinions and criticisms may actually be right. So I don't mind that.

I like it when adult straight men are big fans of 'Pitch Perfect!'

I wasn't treated different to anyone else, I just performed on the pitch and that helped my selection for the 'Development England' side at the age of 13 and I had no extra boundaries just because I was Asian.

Don't pity me now, don't pity me never; I'm going to do nothing for ever and ever.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

I don't have much positive to say about motor neurone disease. But it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I could still do.

I think it's a pity for him that my father didn't have the pleasure of seeing me grow up. I think he missed out on something. But it doesn't matter. It's boring. I don't have any anger about it.

I don't need pity. I want to be looked at like a musician, because I am one. I happen to be deaf.

I don't see myself as the next Carmen Dell'Orefice. I'd rather be fat and happy, sitting on a beach in Hawaii eating pizza.

Love is, to me, a lot of different things. It's the love you have for yourself and if you have a family and friends. Your love for pizza. I feel like love can be really anything that you want it to be.

I've been called pizza face and others said my skin was full of craters - it's just so horrible when people pin point something that you feel so badly about.

In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.

A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian. And you devalue the citizenship of every Canadian in this place and in this country when you break down and make it conditional for anyone.

Hatred, racism, and extremism have no place in this country.