Quotes About Acceptance

If you put out acceptance and warmth, you tend to attract the same.

I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.

Don't expect anything. Erase all life expectancies. Just live.

There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

In France, older women are considered sensual, and they don't have to mask the lines and wrinkles and erase every sign of their life on earth to be attractive and get laid.

When you cannot joke about the darkness of life, that's when the darkness takes over.

Regret is just life's aftertaste.

I just hope it was okay, I know it wasn't perfect, I hope in the end we can laugh and say it was all worth it.

trouble is not a sign of inadequacy, stupidity or inferiority, but rather an inescapable part of life - proof that you are a card-carrying member of the human race.

...When I look back on my life's greatest traumas...I see that each one has something in common. No matter how life-shattering they felt at the time, there was an end to them.

the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us.

I don't mind being a commodity. It's given me a good life.

At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.

Those who think that the rewarding things in life are somewhere over the rainbow 'burn their toast a lot,' said Pooh

You live day by day. You can't build your life.

You either get life or you don't, and if you don't - life gets you.

I said to my teacher, 'I can't be a singer because I'm not pretty enough, and I'm fat.' And she looked at me and said, 'Tell that to Nell Carter, babe.' That changed my life forever!

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.

It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.

life's endless war against the self you cannot live without.

I should be content to look at a mountain for what it is and not as a comment on my life.