Quotes About Acceptance

I was considered the black sheep of the family, neighbours didn't want their kids playing with me.

When you demand nothing of the world, nor of God, when you want nothing, seek nothing, expect nothing, then the supreme state will come to you uninvited and unexpected.

They're like lips, they're like noses, they're like eyeballs, you should be able to have them out all the time if you want. Nipples are beautiful things, don't hide them.

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

God just has a way of working things out the way he wants to and you have no say in that.

If I turned around every time somebody called me a faggot, I'd be walking backward - and I don't want to walk backward.

Everyone wants to learn how to win, but no one wants to learn how to accept defeat.

You can't demand truth and reconciliation. You have to demand truth - people have to hear it, and then they have to want to reconcile themselves to that truth.

People aren't always what you want them to be

Inner peace doesn't come from getting what we want, but from remembering who we are.

Sometimes people say I should see a therapist, but I don't want any therapist wrecking my weirdness.

You can't always get what you want.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph.

Be who you want to be - be free in your own skin, be liberated and feel beautiful, and do what you want to do without judgement

My real name's McGill. The Jew thing I just do for the homeboys. They all want a pipe-hitting member of the tribe, so to speak.

There is a difference between a person who is dying and a person who is suicidal. I do not want to die. I am dying.

The tragedy for comedians is there's nothing more they want than to be liked. We desperately seek approval. It's almost like a personality disorder you can do as a job.

God is good whether or not His choices seem right to us, whether or not we feel it, whether or not it seems true, and whether or not He gives us everything that we want.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

You have to embrace the world if you want to live in it now.

The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle.

People are always telling me that change is good. But all that means is that something you didn't want to happen has happened.

I can take critism, but if it's like 'I don't like you' then I want to know why people don't like me. Why do you hate me? What have I done?