acceptance quotes

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I’m walking down the street.

You can’t do something forever.

Everybody’s journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope… It is not a reflection of all religious people.

I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.

When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair, there is no hope.

There’s always a bittersweet kind of thing, but I feel like everything had to work out the way it is. Everything that had to happen, happened.

We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can’t cope with is therefore your own problem.

Glam really did plant seeds for a new identity. I think a lot of kids needed that – that sense of reinvention. Kids learned that however crazy you may think it is, there is a place for what you want to do and who you want to be.

Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists.

The philosophical idea that there are no more distances, that we are all just one world, that we are all brothers, is such a drag! I like differences.

I’m not concerned with your liking or disliking me… All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, ‚Thy will be done,‘ and those to whom God says, ‚All right, then, have it your way.‘

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines… There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass, so long as nothing challenges them, just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.

We can continue to learn generation after generation and now is time to begin to learn how to love in a non-discriminatory way because we are intelligent enough, but we are not loving enough as a species.

Things that I felt absolutely sure of but a few years ago, I do not believe now. This thought makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me.

I’m never going to be fast, and nobody will ever mistake me for being fast.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

I’m not afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly.

I’m not a complete psychopath. Am I partially? Sure. I’ll accept that. But I’m not a complete psychopath.

I belong to a gospel choir. They know I am an atheist but they are very tolerant.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

Many people think of perfectionism as striving to be your best, but it is not about self-improvement; it’s about earning approval and acceptance.

Me and my dad are friends. We’re cool. I’ll never be disappointed again, because I don’t expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that’s how we get along.

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

It is easy enough to be friendly to one’s friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Don’t say I hate institutionalised religion – rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I’m saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Dear friends, we may well sing to our Beloved when it is near the time of our departure. It draws near, and as it approaches, we must not dread it, but rather thank God for it.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

Don’t look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you’ll know you’re dead.

Let’s embrace being not normal!

You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

I don’t have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I’m happier now than before I developed the condition.

If you’re going to wake up early all the time, and you’re working hard, and you’re working out, sometimes you’re going to get tired. It’s OK. It’s acceptable – somewhat. We’re all human, unfortunately.

We do not judge the people we love.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

There’s something about death that is comforting. The thought that you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now.

You can’t stop everything from happening. But we’ve gotten to a point where we’re certainly trying. If a car doesn’t have four hundred air bags in it, then it’s no good.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

I’m gonna make what I want to make, and other people are gonna like what they’re gonna like. It doesn’t really matter.

I don’t try to control my days.

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

Once you’ve grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you’ve inherited, you don’t even notice it any longer.

Things won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.