Being Okay Quotes:

My high school was a private school where you went to an Ivy League. That's just what was expected of you and nothing less. So I grew up never being okay with a 'B' because a 'B' was not good enough.

- Troian Bellisario

source: Interview with Lauren Brown, www.seventeen.com. January 28, 2011.

topic: School, Ivy, League, Ivy League, Ivy League Schools

I think my biggest learning experience is that it's okay to be who you are - you don't have to exactly fit the mold of what people think a certain kind of career is. I think that discovery - of really knowing who I am and being okay with that and loving myself - was amazing.

- Dree Hemingway

source: "Futures: Sean Baker’s ‘Starlet’ Dree Hemingway Opens Up About Life as Model and Acting Opposite an 87-Year-Old Newcomer". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. November 8, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Discovery, Who I Am, Loving Myself, Being Okay

In my work, I'm passionate about trying different things and being okay if I mess up. Now I'm trying to bring that into my own life.

- Rowan Blanchard

topic: Trying Different Things, Passionate, Okay, Being Okay

For them [LGBT group], language has to say exactly what it means. "Why aren't you proud of being gay?" they wanted to know. "Why are you so dark? Why are you so morbid? Why are you so sad? Don't you realize, we're all okay? Let's celebrate that fact." But that is not what writers do. We don't celebrate being "okay." If you want to be okay, take an aspirin.

- Richard Rodriguez

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Mean, Dark, Gay, Being Okay

You know, these conservative women, somebody really needs to go repossess their ovaries. Really, truly, they have no right to them. They are fabulous, little organs and they have absolutely no right to be estrogen-bearing beings. Okay? Just cut 'em off, let 'em go through the hot flashes, let 'em just sit there and complain about hormone therapy, okay? Just take the ovaries and get it over with. Because they don't deserve to have estrogen. They really don't. It's a privilege.

- Randi Rhodes

topic: Cutting, Hot Flashes, Ovaries, Estrogen, Being Okay

If you want freedom you have to come to terms with being okay in the now doing nothing.

- Doug Duncan

topic: Want, Doing Nothing, Term, Being Okay

To me, one of the things I love about being an actor is that its never done; its never perfect, and so its the process. Its like practicing being okay with things not being perfect and things being outside of your control.

- Kerry Bishe

topic: Perfect, Actors, Done, Being Okay, Not Being Perfect

And I think from a male perspective, we have men talking about their feelings and it being okay.

- Morris Chestnut

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Men, Thinking, Talking, Being Okay

In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, 'What do I want to do?' Your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the gray area; being okay with where you are. If you can find the parity between 'Where am I going?' and 'What's my purpose?' you've got two pretty solid pillars for your coffee table.

- Chris Pine

topic: Coffee, Thinking, Two, Gray Area, Parity

Then it's settled," I said. "We'll do a dream conference call." That love and rapture faltered. "Wait. How is it settled? How did we go from me declaring my love for you to me being okay with a dream?" "It's Adrian Ivashkov logic. Don't try to understand it. Just roll with it.

- Richelle Mead

source: Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.45, Penguin

topic: Dream, Waiting, Trying, Conference Calls, Being Okay