acceptance quotes

I was born on a full moon. Both my children were born on full moons, too. Some people say that’s scary. It is what it is, man, I don’t be trippin‘. I couldn’t tell God when I wanted to be born.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

I can’t help the way you was born if you was gay.

I don’t have a problem with Hulk Hogan. People say things and do things, and who am I to judge?

When I die, and people realize that I will not be resurrected in three days, they will forget me. That is the way it should be.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that’s how we’ve got to live.

I’m sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they’re not discriminated on the job.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

The fact that you are willing to say, ‚I do not understand, and it is fine,‘ is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer’s no. That’s not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim American kid believing that he or she could be president?

We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the tone of voice in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

I’ve had no contact with my daughter for years. That’s her choice. Anyway, you move on. If people don’t want to bother with me, fine. You know, God bless them, and move on.

Here in America, we don’t give in to our fears. We don’t build up walls to keep people out.

I think that there’s no doubt that as I see friends, families, children of gay couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how I think about these issues.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

I think everyone should be with who they love.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

God tells us not to judge one another, no matter what anyone’s sexual preferences are or if they’re black, brown or purple.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

Whether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

We can’t form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.

God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God’s children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

Jesus never said a word about homosexuality. In all of his teachings about multiple things – he never said that gay people should be condemned. I personally think it is very fine for gay people to be married in civil ceremonies.

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.

I’m very picky; I’m never happy with anything. It’s so hard to give the record away and accept that you’re done.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don’t think about it, I just have it.

Racial prejudice, anti-Semitism, or hatred of anyone with different beliefs has no place in the human mind or heart.

As you know, I’m an immigrant. I came over here as an immigrant, and what gave me the opportunities, what made me to be here today, is the open arms of Americans. I have been received. I have been adopted by America.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for – scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.

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.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There’s no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it’s not always in the way you expect. God knows what’s best for us, though, so there’s no need to worry when things don’t go how we originally wanted them to go.

Acceptance looks like a passive state, but in reality it brings something entirely new into this world. That peace, a subtle energy vibration, is consciousness.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling business, just as getting crippled for life is an acceptable risk in the linebacker business. They both are extremely violent sports, and pain is part of the bargain. Buy the ticket, take the ride.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

I am God’s vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

Always say ‚yes‘ to the present moment… Surrender to what is. Say ‚yes‘ to life – and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

I believe in a passion for inclusion.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

I accept chaos, I’m not sure whether it accepts me.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.