self-acceptance Quotes

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.

Why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.

I do get recognized, but I must say Edinburgh is a fantastic city to live if you're well-known. There is an innate respect for privacy in Edinburgh people, and I also think they're used to seeing me walking around, so I don't think I'm a very big deal.

Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.

We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.