Quotes About Acceptance

I hate time. It never does what you want it to.

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

Time is a kindly god.

I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed.

I'm friends with a lot of my exes, but it took time. We didn't just get into it. I don't think you can be friends until you're cool with them dating someone else. That's when you know.

I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does.

By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

So many people and institutions are against homosexuals that, as a homosexual, you can't waste your time by trying to convince them that you're a good person.

I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.

Omnipresence can be a good or bad thing, I suppose. I don't want to spend a lot of time thinking about it. I'm super-grateful.

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

It normally takes decades to build a brand... It's the forgetting of the old truth that allows a person to accept a new truth. You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place

It is not hard to feel like an outsider. I think we have all felt like that at one time or another.

I look at Rafa Benitez in his time at Liverpool, he had difficult periods and the same goes for Brendan Rodgers in the same job now. These difficult periods come and you have to accept that.

As strange as it may sound, I think I'm a lot more at peace with the fact that you can't guarantee you're going to be all right [at] any time.

I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time.

... I suppose that it is not so easy to go home and it takes a bit of time to make a son out of a stranger.

I hate pretty-looking boys. I'd rather have a guy with a potbelly than one who's in the gym all the time and watches what he eats.

When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.

There's no time to hold grudges when you've seen how fragile things can really be.

You are back, Cam. Which means for the first time since you left, it's okay for us to be mad at you for leaving. - Macey

I didn't come out and pay a really painful price often, to be LGBT, to not claim my sexuality at the same time. It's not all right with me to not talk about it so I don't make anybody nervous.

Lately, I've become accustomed to the way The ground opens up and envelopes me Each time I go out to walk the dog.

Don't be bothered by troubles because they are generally guests we ourselves invite - they will stay for some time and then leave