Quotes About Acceptance

This is the first day of the rest of my life. So why is my hair sticking up like a cockerel?

I am at the stage of my life everyone dreads - that of filling my days with the past, because there is little future left.

And what's wrong with dimming the harsh reality of life a little, anyway? In essence, being alive is a bloody long and hard walk to death. Why not make it as pleasant along the way as you can?

Red hair is my life long sorrow.

What has to be accepted, the given, is - so one could say - forms of life .

Sometimes in real life, people can be a bit too unaccepting.

Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.

Nobody gets to pick what life gives them

Instead of always looking to get fulfillment from my loved ones and the other blessings in my life, I can simply enjoy them for what they are.

Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

There's nothing you could really avoid about giving yourself to somebody who ultimately rejects you. That's just life.

Life's too short to be bitter, I'm too short to be bitter.

Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy.

Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down

For at the center of all spiritual traditions is the beacon of a truly radical proposal: Open your heart to everybody. Everybody.

What would our lives be like if we could all be happy no matter what?

I thought I was so ugly for so long, and I wasted so much of my life on this dumb notion.

Why go through life feeling cheated? It does nothing but make you bitter.

I'm not a body shamer. The word fat has been used to hurt me my entire life.

It makes it very hard to say what you believe in and not be attacked for it. And it's not fair; I'm Korean, but I'm not supposed to talk about my experience and my life? It's unaccepting.

I think that reaching out to kids that feel really isolated is a life saving gesture that we have a responsibility as older queers to do.

Life has changed. People have changed. They are more forgiving, less inclined to rush to judgment. And I have changed.

The time to show up fully for life is right now, whatever the circumstances.

When something tragic has happened, you can try to move on and put something tragic behind you, but it rarely works. It's in you when something like that happens. It's physically a part of your life.