Quotes About Acceptance

We all have presence of mind when everything goes well, but we need to have presence of mind when something goes wrong. If we face suffering and accept it as a necessary means, all anxiousness disappears.

Many people focus on the past or the future to avoid experiencing the present, often because the present is painful or difficult to endure...The pain is there as a teacher, because life if filled with pain. In the struggle alone, there is knowledge. Only when there is pain will you see the light.

Pain is your guru.

If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.

In this way, pain can be a great teacher, which educates us how to live with it and eventually say goodbye.

While me must recognize the existence and importance of pain, we must not glorify it. Where pain exists, there must be a reason for it.

The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.

You can't always be a leading lady.

I don't care who you are Where you're from What you did As long as you love me

That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come.

Embrace and invite helps, and advices, touching the execution of thy place; and do not drive away such, as bring thee information, as meddlers; but accept of them in good part.

I feel like 'Power Rangers' as just a franchise and as a message in itself is taking down the barrier of putting a certain look to a certain thing, right?

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

I was probably 15 when I started going to the studio with the older cats in my neighborhood. They heard me rap outside one time; I was just freestyling. And they invited me to the studio. It's good when you're accepted, no matter what crowd. That's the first step of believing you can do whatever you feel like putting your mind to.

I'm into hip-hop, rap, country, blues, gospel, old school, new school... whatever... pop. If it's really good, I like it. I don't have to be told what to listen to. If I like it and it's good, I'll listen to it.

That's why I make mixtapes. That's why I work with Don Cannon; that's why i work with Big Sean. Even though I don't rap, I got love and acceptance in that community, and that's something that I really take seriously and hold close to my heart.

By no means am I excusing homophobic rap lyrics, but as a product of the same environments that birthed hip-hop, I fully understand why those lyrics existed.

When you're part of hip-hop culture but you're a Christian, people want you to be either-or. Or they'll create a category for you, like, 'Oh, gospel rap!'

The rap community know that I'm doing very well. They're embracing me... They like the flavour.

When I was a kid, I don't think I even knew what being gay was, and now it's just part of our culture. It's changing so rapidly right now. It's great.

We are all people... don't label me as an LGBT rapper or a female rapper... I don't like to be labeled.

I don't want to be considered 'the Latino rapper.'

Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.

Before Eminem, the idea that there would be a white rapper that anybody would really check for was fantastic or amazing or impossible.