Janet Mock Quotes

It was kind of a hard lesson when I figured out that not everybody is going to be kind, be sweet. So I've learned that I am never going to make everybody happy. There's always going to be someone who can't stand the way I write, and I can't take that personally.

I've gotten to a place where I'm better at curbing your ego, which usually happens when you're feeling super small and scared about whatever you're seeing, and you want to go read, 'Oh, I hear there's a really good article about me.' I've gotten better about knowing that's not going to end well, usually.

Am I completely indifferent to criticism? No, not at all. But I know who I am and I have learned to respect and care for who I am.

You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.

I'm not going to get upset because somebody said something bad about me.

I don't put much pressure on myself, because I'm strong mentally.

If a person doesn't like me or doesn't like my game, OK, that's how they feel. Can't be upset with it.

Believe in yourself and try not to take anything personally.

I tend to take things personally. But I can only take so much, and then I jump back. I have strong survival skills.

For me, when I go to bed at night, I am happy that I haven't hurt someone. And if I think I have, I will rectify it. I now refuse to give someone permission to make me feel bad about myself. They can't make me feel bad about myself if I don't allow it.

I think sometimes people project things on you, but I'm trying to handle everything that's happened to me with a certain amount of grace, dignity and good manners. You just can't necessarily win all the time.

I'm hard on myself, so I'm working on shifting perspective toward self-acceptance, with all my flaws and weaknesses.

If you focus on the actions of others and allow them to constantly upset you, then you are handing your peace over to them and giving away your power.

I'm not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

Self-care is the number one solution to helping somebody else. If you are being good to yourself and your body and your psyche, that that serves other people better because you will grow strong enough to life someone else up.

I can live with myself.

Criticism is always hard to take - we musicians are sensitive. It's always hard when someone says something negative - but you try to learn to just let it roll off and not worry about it.

The older I've got, the easier I've found it to accept myself. I think I've finally learnt not to beat myself up so much.

You know, I think I'm a stronger person for realizing that you can't make everybody love you.

Love myself I do. Not everything, but I love the good as well as the bad. I love my crazy lifestyle, and I love my hard discipline. I love my freedom of speech and the way my eyes get dark when I'm tired. I love that I have learned to trust people with my heart, even if it will get broken. I am proud of everything that I am and will become.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn't mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else's bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

The one thing I really learned, and learned well, in group therapy was that you don't die if someone doesn't like you.

Being a sensitive, thoughtful person opens you up for criticism and being affected by it.

I find it takes a lot of strength to endure myself.

People and what they say don't bother me like they used to. When I was younger, I really couldn't take it because I couldn't understand where the criticism was coming from.