Quotes About Acceptance

I always try to find a less frustrating way to look at things.

It's quite frustrating taking a back seat in films.

I used to find limitations frustrating, but I find them enormously liberating.

I can't control my frustration.

I used to think I needed to have drama at all times, or I wouldn't have the fuel for the performance. Now I know that's not true. That doesn't mean I don't feel it, but I recognize it when I do and put the brakes on. And if the performance isn't what it might have been once, I've learned not to judge myself as much.

Do not seek death. Death will find you. But seek the road which makes death a fulfillment.

We repress the things we're scared of, but if we just look at and embrace the things we're scared of, it's a much fuller, richer life that's also not as scary.

There are some people who don't want to deal with the fact that we are not forever. Some people decide to live life to the fullest.

It's very hard to be black in this country and hate America. It's really hard to live like that. I would actually argue it's impossible to fully see yourself.

Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it.

Yet I've discovered that how I look is not a function of anything as ephemeral as my hair.

If you're functional, it doesn't matter if you're mad.

I don't know that anyone comes from a truly functional family.

After you have kids, you feel differently about your body. Aesthetically, am I happy with my body? No. I definitely think you come to view it as more functional. But you just get past it.

We hold that same sex couples may exercise the fundamental right to marry in all states.

I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that like?' and I was like, 'It was normal', because it's all I knew.

I want my funeral to be uncomfortably quiet.

This season is a lot funnier, not as dark, mainly because, well, she has accepted the fact that she is dead. She knows she cannot go back to where she was when she was alive.

Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but take pride in it as well.

There comes a time when all that remains for us to do is to surrender to the idiosyncrasies of our nature.

Then," Father Consett said, "if ye know him so well, Sylvia Satterthwaite, how is it ye can't get on with him better? They say: Tout savoir c'est tout pardonner." "It isn't," Sylvia said. "To know everything about a person is to be bored… bored… bored!

I felt total bad about it, and empty. Granpa said he knew how I felt, for he was feeling the same way. But Granpa said everything you lost which you had loved give you that feeling. He said the only way round it was not to love anything, which was worse because you would feel empty all the time.

I perceive I will die confected in the very stench of farts

Whatever comes cannot alter one thing.