Quotes About Acceptance

When I was 12, I used to dress as a woman in the house. At the time, cross-dressing was a big taboo in Italy. It was better to have a son who was a drug addict than a cross-dresser.

Don't lose your head over love. I learned a long time ago that those who love you do not understand you, and those who understand you, do not love you.

When an actor is offered a role, more often than not - maybe 90 percent of the time - you read it and you say, "I'll take it."

I hope to grow up and see myself accepting myself and accepting time going by and everything falls.

I've realized that aging is the younger cousin of dying. ... How much time do I have left? We become aware that we're on the downside of the mountain, coasting toward our final days.

I felt nothing all the time, and it had started to feel normal. It should have scared me, but it didn't.

Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.

I find that when I'm ready for something to end, I transition quickly. But when something ends before its time, I find it hard to move on.

Sometimes kids used to give me a hard time. But they're on my side.

The only time I ever appeared in the Enquirer was for a piece about people who let their hair grow gray. I guess I'm not much of a wild child.

It's always hard when you've known a person a long time and then you have to recognise that you have nothing left in common but your memories.

I'm really loving and open at the same time.

The irreversibility of time. That's the hardest thing to accept at our age, that's the most violent aspect of death.

You are complete. Completion has taken place in you eons ago. Accept yourself. Enjoy yourself. This time will never be again, so fulfill the moment with your own self-joy.

Love teaches you to love your own mortality, just as we love the flowers that bloom for a short time and pass on.

You need to have the humility to accept your limitations as long as they're there, and have the humility to accept their end when that time comes.

Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.

The worst thing you can do is to sit and brood and feel sorry for yourself. Nor should you feel wrong about doing this, since all of us do from time to time.

Learn to let go. You do it a little at a time.

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"

You will never stop wanting more until you allow yourself to have what you already have. To take it in. Savor it. Now is a good time to do that . . .

I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.

I'm comfortable with time. Time will change.

We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.