acceptance quotes

If I make music and people hate it, you know, whatever. I’ll die someday, and one day, they will too.

I love imperfections.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Everyone got kind of crazy with me mentioning I was in love with a woman.

One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Never in any case say I have lost such a thing, but I have returned it. Is your child dead? It is a return. Is your wife dead? It is a return. Are you deprived of your estate? Is not this also a return?

Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

All religions must be tolerated… for every man must get to heaven in his own way.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

When your soul is resting, your emotions are okay, your mind is okay, and your will is at peace with God, not resisting what He’s doing.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.

Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

I have seen many storms in my life. Most storms have caught me by surprise, so I had to learn very quickly to look further and understand that I am not capable of controlling the weather, to exercise the art of patience and to respect the fury of nature.

Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, with all our failures, with all our transgressions, with all and everything that is what it ought not to be, we come to Thee.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

I know that a large part of my fan base is gay. They’ve shown me love from the start. I mean in this industry, everyone from my glam people to my dancers are gay. You can’t be homophobic in this line of work – I’m a pop star!

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

The only thing I know is I ain’t changing my brand. I know what I believe. I’m confident in what I know. And I’m gonna say it. And if folks like it, wonderful. If they don’t like it, I understand.

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

I was willing to accept what I couldn’t change.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

I sang a song at my sister’s wedding. My mother forced me into that, too. But that one felt all right.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

It’s nice to be included in people’s fantasies but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

It doesn’t matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I’m a woman or a man.

I’ve been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I’m driving, I hear I’m a moron. I like being a moron.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

A man has a tendency to accept you the way you are, while most women immediately start to pick flaws and want to change you.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other’s folly – that is the first law of nature.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.

You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don’t accept it, it’s their loss.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.