Quotes About Acceptance

People who are looked up to in America will often say, 'I don't get math.' And they'll often say it like they're being humble, but they seem almost proud of it because it's acceptable to act this way.

The Funkasaurus character was great and it taught me about being humble, about the character, about not being concerned with what people think you should be.

You have to be humble when somebody is, not blaming you, but having to say something isn't right or correct.

You can be humbled as a goalkeeper. You have to accept that.

Being humbled is a good thing.

I'm very humbled to know that everything happens for a reason.

I really had to come to the conclusion, the sort of humbling conclusion that, guess what, I'm no different than anybody else: I've got to sort of ask for help - not something I ever did, ever. And then part two of that is, like, accept it when it comes, and, you know, believe what people tell me.

Learning to live with the given is the great humbling educational process of life.

I have no ego, I'll make fun of myself, and I'll make fun of being humiliated. I get it.

You get older, you slow down. Failure feels like less of a humiliation and more of a balanced return.

Self-deprecating humor and brutal honesty is a really freeing thing.

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.

You're gonna lose looks when it comes with age, but if you have that sense of humor, it will always keep things great in a relationship.

Basically, I think you need two things to get by in this world: a sense of humor and the ability to laugh when your ego is destroyed.

I'm a lesbian. Yup. Hundred percent. Hundred percent. I remember being in college, and I had fallen in love with this woman, and I remember sitting in my dorm room saying out loud to myself, like, 'You have enough problems. You are not gonna let this happen.'

I mean, come on: At the end of the day, we're all bisexual. A hundred years from now, there's not gonna be gay or straight. There's gonna be everything.

I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

I don't get hung up about anything really.

A lot of people are really hung on the past - they can't get past that - but you've gotta get past that if you want any future.

I don't get hung up a lot on angst.

I never wanted to be one of those guys who hung on too long.

Buddhist teachings suggest that when we find the thing that keeps us from appreciating the present, the thing that keeps us from trusting, the very thing that causes us suffering, it is a gate to freedom, to awakening.

do not turn anything Into something longed for, For then it's dreadful to lose.

Victory gives birth to hate; The defeated sleep in anguish. Giving up both victory and defeat, Those who have attained peace sleep happily.