Quotes About Acceptance

I have learned to not worry about things I can't control.

I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.

I don't worry about whether things match. If I love two pieces, I kind of assume they go together.

I do not worry about the past. I move on.

It takes a lot of guts to come out to your friends and family. For most gay people, coming out is the most traumatic experience in their life because of the worry about the backlash: 'What's going to happen? Are my parents going to accept me? Are my friends going to accept me? Are my sisters and brothers going to accept me?'

Oh, there's tons of resentment. That's normal. I can't control that, and I don't worry about it.

Even if I would have left on a good note, there is still going to be people who don't like you, who don't like what you stand for. I can't worry about that.

We can't worry about who we don't have. We have to go into these games with the guys we have.

Actual gay people can make many others feel uncomfortable and paranoid because they don't know and can't articulate what makes a person gay, and they worry that maybe they themselves are gay.

I try not to worry about things that I can't control.

Instead of fretting about getting everything done, why not simply accept that being alive means having things to do? Then drop into full engagement with whatever you're doing, and let the worry go.

Like any woman, I worry about my body.

There's no point in worrying about things you can't influence.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future.

Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.

Now I feel and I say all the time that vanity is, like, long gone. I'm really free of worrying about what I look like, because it's out of my shaky hands. I don't control it. So why would I waste one second of my life worrying about it?

I've had so many things, good and bad, said about me. I'm way beyond worrying about what people say.

There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.

Quit worrying about your health. It will go away.

I feel like there's more to life then worrying about the way that you look.

I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.