Quotes About Acceptance

Everything harmonizes with me, which is harmonious to thee, o Universe. Nothing for me is too early or too late, which is in due time for thee.

It was only cool to have blond hair and be a surfer chick [in Sydney]. I could learn how to surf, but I still looked Italian. It took me a long time to realize that was a good thing.

Time can turn a scab into a beauty mark.

The thing I have to keep in mind and I try to keep in mind about myself, about anyone, is you do the best you can do at the time.

If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.

Forgiveness is not a one-time-only event. It is a process.

God accepts us unconditionally, and in his view we are all precious and priceless. Focus on this and you will not waste any time and effort trying to be someone you're not.

Joy waits on welcome, not time.

One who is afraid of time becomes a prey of time. But time itself becomes a prey of that one who is not afraid of it.

Time rushes towards us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation.

Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects.

It's amazing that people still feel, 'Oh my gosh, it's a black guy.' We've been here for a long time; let's get used to it. Let's get used to other cultures.

If we are forever yearning for more time, we are forever discounting what is offered.

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamiliar. In spite of the fact that it happens all the time, we never see it.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

Humor is such a wonderful thing, helping you realize what a fool you are but how beautiful that is at the same time.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

When I did the film Generations, in which the character died, I felt like a guest for the first time. That made me very sad.

I was a bit of an outsider in the hip-hop world because I was a scratch kid and people weren't necessarily trying to hear that all the time.

Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

All you can do is do the best you can and I did that. I had a great time. I made a product and I was not embarrassed by it at all so you do it and you move on.