Quotes About Acceptance

On the gay issue, hey, you know what, if people love each other, Jesus, I mean come on.

I wonder why it has taken such a long time in our country to understand or look at the potential of plus-size models. So what if they are plus-size, they are confident and have equal enthusiasm for life.

It's human nature for everyone to say 'what if,' but I try to snap out of it as quickly as I can because I'm never going to be able to go back and change what has happened.

Don't let anyone shame you for what you read or what you love in general. Many people are gonna tell you not to do xyz things.

I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there's something great about loving what you love and not caring if it's unpopular.

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.

If you're differently-abled, if you're a person of color, if you express your identity in a way that's different from the norm, for whatever reason, there's an implicit bias where people, frankly, sometimes take you less seriously.

Everybody can rock a bikini, swimsuit, unicorn onesie... whatever floats your boat. If you wear it with confidence, you will look hot.

I try to see the good in everybody, and I don't care who people are as long as they're themselves, whatever that is.

Whatever comes in my way, I take it with smile.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.

You can be whatever size you are, and you can be beautiful both inside and out. We're always told what's beautiful and what's not, and that's not right.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

I've had a blessed life. I've pulled back from trying to control my destiny and gone back to accepting whatever fate has in store for me. I live for today because I don't know what'll happen tomorrow.

I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.

You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.

It shouldn't matter what you're into, how you look - you can achieve whatever you aspire to.

You can call me whatever you want to call me, but I am an American. No one can take that away from me. No, no one can.

I have this firm belief that I am who I am for a reason. If I change something, I'm cheating myself of whatever it is I'm supposed to learn from my body. You know, I'm legally blind. I'm 20/750, since I was in fifth grade. I wear glasses and contacts. But I won't even get LASIK.

The older I get the more laid back I am about whatever happens, happens.

I'm hardened over many years. You toughen yourself for whatever job. You either take the good with the bad or don't bother.

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I'll die someday, and one day, they will too.