Quotes About Acceptance

Do what you want, and if people are going to judge you for it, who cares? You might not fit in, but that's okay. Everyone thought I was weird in high school!

That's right, you're not from Texas. But Texas wants you anyways.

Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody's throat. For those who don't want it, I have nothing to defend.

Human beings are afraid of dying. They are always running after something: money, honor, and pleasure. But if you had to die now, what would you want?

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

When we stop resisting what we don't want to feel and embrace the state that we are in, we move through whatever it is SO much faster and find our way back to truth and clarity.

I support anyone's right to be who they want to be. My question is: to what extent do I have to participate in your self-image?

I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible.

I guess my life hasn't always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I want. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they'll break my heart.

Sometimes, not getting what you want can be the most valuable experience of your entire life.

An intelligent woman is a woman with whom one can be as stupid as one wants.

In the full light of day, I don't want to think about the sunset.

I let people say and write what they want.

Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.

If i can't have what i want . . . then my job is to want what i've got and be satisfied that at least there is something more to want

I realize everybody wants what they don't have. But at the end of the day, what you have inside is much more beautiful than what's on the outside!

You have to give them unconditional love. They need to know that even if they screw up, you love them. You don't want them to grow up and resent you or, even worse, parent the way you parented them.

Life never gives us what we want at the moment that we consider appropriate.

Life does not always give you what you want, but if you look closely you will see that it gives what you need for growth.

Want what you have and you will always get what you want.

Too many times we insist on loving people the way we want to love them instead of the way they need to be loved.

The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of course you never do.

Live and let live. I want to be happy and be loved...that's all.

I do not ask to be young again; all I want is to go on getting older.