It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.
Margaret ChoRead
I've spent so much time feeling ugly and being treated as ugly as a result. But I changed my attitude and said, “I’m beautiful because I love everybody as much as I can. I’m beautiful because I have wonderful friends. And I’m beautiful because I say I am. I’ve earned it, and I’m gonna be it.
Interpretation
True beauty comes from within and is shaped by our attitude and relationships.
In this quote, Margaret Cho emphasizes the importance of self-love and the positive impact that our attitude and the love we give others can have on our self-perception. By stating that she is beautiful because of her love for others, her friendships, and her self-affirmation, Cho illustrates that beauty is not solely based on external appearance but is deeply rooted in how we feel about ourselves and our connections with others.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a motivational speech about self-acceptance.
It is tragic that people who are incarcerated are unable to vote. They are probably the most important voices to listen to because they can tell us what we need to change.
In America, I'm a foreigner because of my Korean heritage. In Asia, because I was born in America, I'm a foreigner. I'm always a foreigner.
Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.
If public figures came out of the closet, then the LGBT kids who saw them on TV would feel safe, before they even knew why they felt dangerous. Maybe if enough people came out of the closet, gay kids would never feel dangerous. Maybe we could have a world where we could all just live. We may not all agree, but why can't we just all live?
I was like, Am I gay? Am I straight? And I realized...I'm just slutty. Where's my parade?
One place that I really feel comfortable is being a comedienne. I'm very socially inept. There's so many things that I can not do in life, and this is, like, the one thing that I have mastery over. It's my world. And anybody who's coming to the show, it's like they're coming because they know that this is my world.
When a man's stomach is full it makes no difference whether he is rich or poor.
Can you be happy with the movies, and the ads, and the clothes in the stores, and the doctors, and the eyes as you walk down the street all telling you there is something wrong with you? No. You cannot be happy. Because, you poor darling baby, you believe them.
The ultimate source of a happy life is warm-heartedness. This means extending to others the kind of concern we have for ourselves. On a simple level we find that if we have a compassionate heart we naturally have more friends. And scientists today are discovering that while anger and hatred eat into our immune system, warm-heartedness and compassion are good for our health.
Peace is joy at rest. Joy is peace on its feet. quoting her pastor in Salon, April 25, 2003
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
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