Quotes About Acceptance

I have no idea why my mom picked Bob, and I've never asked her. My name used to get slaughtered all the time by other people. I was 'Desmond' or 'Damon' or 'Demon.' So Bob's cool.

People don't realize, or maybe they've forgotten, that there was a time in history when standup comedy wasn't something that you had to hide your kids' ears from.

I was a disabled child. So, people made fun of me, don't pretend like this never happens. But at the same time, I never cried about it. I never got sad about it.

We cannot ignore our pain and feel compassion for it at the same time.

Being from a divorced family almost felt like a scarlet letter at times. And I denied it for a long time.

It's nothing to be ashamed of. There comes a time in everything when you don't know something.

Whatever you are, whatever gifts you end up getting, you'll find that time will make those changes less scary as well.

An acceptance of your cultural inheritance, and at the same time a dislike of it, is a building block of good art.

Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.

All I know is that I love you. And for the first time, that's good enough.

you don't deal with time. Time deals with you.

I didn't feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can't say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted.

Time partially reconciles us to anything. I gradually became content--doggedly contented, as wild animals in cages.

I remember feeling all right with myself until age 13. Then, I was getting off the bus one day and this guy called me Miss Piggy. That was the first time I ever really felt like I wasn't okay.

I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.

There was a time when I felt I should do everything that was offered to me, you know, ride the wave.

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

There is no time for grief; there never is.

I have lost everything, Han thought. Then he corrected himself. Every time I think I've lost everything, I find there's still something else to lose.

One of the things I've learned is there's no lesson to be learned. You have to resign yourself to the fact that mistakes are going to be made at any time in the creative process.

Most women beat themselves up because they think they are not good enough at anything. All of those things just eat at you all the time.

In this society these days, women are widely accepted in all kinds of cross-gender areas. So yeah, it's time!

I really wanted to succeed. I wanted to be accepted. I read every magic book that I possibly could, studied every move, and by the time I was 12, they really accepted me, they embraced me.

How many of you think it is time for American to stop pretending we are not Christian? If there's people in King, North Carolina who don't like that, there's lots of places you can move to.