Quotes About Acceptance

If people don't like you, practically nothing you do will be received well.

Don't cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.

You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.

Every sentence I could think of has already been said a hundred times over, by people whose words come out perfect and beautifully formed, where mine die on the tongue or straggle out onto the page, mangled and imperfect. But my story isn't perfect, because I'm not perfect. Nothing is perfect except maybe in math, in the line that extends forever in both directions. Math is beautiful, I have always known that, but so is life. And I have grown to accept imperfection.

Kinaya?" "Yes, Dee?" "Don't go looking for darkness. It will find you soon enough.

In our work and in our living, we must recognize that difference is a reason for celebration and growth, rather than a reason for destruction.

If I had created myself, I would be taller, blond, and more well endowed, financially. I would have cast out spiders and bad-hair days. Therefore, and hence, I believe strongly in a Creator who not only gave me the gift, but the free will to create my own journey through life.

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present, and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

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.

People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.

You have to look at yourself objectively. Analyze yourself like an instrument. You have to be absolutely frank with yourself. Face your handicaps, don't try to hide them. Instead, develop something else.

Children accept many things adults will not accept, since the world of a child is a constant revelation without any need for knowledge of cause and effect. ("Miss Esperson")

Those who won't accept evil never get anything good.

I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.

I like flaws and feel more comfortable around people who have them. I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.

Some damage is too severe, some harm endures. And what you have to do is accept it. And by accept it I mean, don't be the paralyzed person in the bed who is waiting to walk again. Realize, it's never gonna happen. And find some other way to get around –swing from a vine, get a Mad Max wheelchair. Anything but…wait.

The past is a tyrant and it won't allow my family to come back to me. But the present generously lifts my downcast face and makes me see that, although I can't change what I was, I can construct what I will be.

Esperar que esteja tudo certo na vida, esperar resolver todos os meus problemas para ser feliz é um paradoxo inaceitável. Vou morrer infeliz.

El noventa y siete por ciento de las mujeres, en algunas sociedades modernas, no se sienten bellas. Por eso, en cada tienda de ropa y en cada etiqueta, debería haber una leyenda semejante a la advertencia contra el tabaco con frases como ésta: «Toda mujer es bella. La belleza no puede ser estandarizada».

El rechazo de una idea negativa podrá hacernos esclavos de ella. Rechace a una persona, y ella dormirá con usted, arruinándole el sueño. Perdonarla resulta emocionalmente más barato.

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

Don't try to change other people, people rarely change.

Go forward and accept the future as it is, with all its complexities and uncertainties.

Love yourself more and spread love all around you.