Quotes About Acceptance

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me

Everyone acts stupid at some time in order to be loved.

I believe in past lives but I know nothing about mine and I don't want to know. I live in the present, taking one day at a time.

You look older." "Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person.

When I came back, I wasn't looking past this year. This is a bonus for me. I just wish it would have turned out a little better, but we all don't get what we want all the time.

You have to decide when it is time to move on. I was dancing on Broadway for many years. Then everyone was either getting injured or retiring and I was dancing with younger dancers.

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.

But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.

Time cancels young pain.

Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too. Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death.

I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.

A guest of one's time and not a member of the household.

I'm 5 feet 7 but my legs weren't long enough to be a big-time model. From the knees up, everything is long but from ankle to knee, if I was in proportion, I'd be 5 feet 9.

I hate artists who are not of their time.

I really can't hate more than 5 or 10 years. Wouldn't it be terrible to be always burdened with those primary emotions you had at one time?

Don't try to live too many days at a time.

But by the time that I had nothing left, I myself was the lightest thing of all for fate to get rid of.

Time comes to us softly, slowly. It sits beside us for a while. Then, long before we are ready, it moves on.

Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.

Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other.

February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.

Then you must reconcile yourself to the fact that something is always hurt by any change. If you do this, you will not be hurt yourself.

Too much time is wasted fighting one self and life itself. Peace and fulfilment emerge the moment you embrace both.