Quotes About Acceptance

They say learning to love yourself, Is the first step, That you take when you want to be real...

People come and go, pain comes and goes. But so does joy. And if our hearts are closed because we don't want to suffer, they won't be open enough to recognize the joy as it flies by.

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it.

No-one wants to feel like they're constantly auditioning for a place in your life.

The secret of life is not to have everything you want, but to want everything you have.

For me, I feel like if a woman doesn't find me attractive 'cause I'm taking care of myself, then that's not the woman I want.

Everyone's been so quick to say that I'm really thick or I haven't got a brain. People will think whatever they want to think.

The world is imperfect, and young people are always trying to perfect it and they always fail - which is a good thing. Who'd want to live in a perfect world?

My grandmother, she's been the positive portion of my life the entire time. She raised us Baptist, and when I got old enough to say I didn't want to go to church, she didn't force me. She was cool.

I think we have to accept a wide variety of positions on gender. Some want to be gender-free, but others want to be free really to be a gender that is crucial to who they are.

For me, my dream came true. But for society it showed me that people want to move on, to look to the future. We said something, we made a statement.

The key to a successful marriage is accepting that you're not going to change the other person. And the words "Yes, dear. Whatever you want.

I think girls and boys should be able to be any way they want to be without getting picked on.

My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.

There's a lot of life on the planet that needs love, wants love, deserves love, in whatever capacity we are able.

Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.

When it comes to size, most people don't want to see themselves looking bigger than what they are.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

Despair … is the ultimate development of a pride so great and so stiff-necked that it selects the absolute misery of damnation rather than accept happiness from the hands of God and thereby acknowledge that He is above us and that we are not capable of fulfilling our destiny by ourselves.

I begrudge God none of this. I do not curse him or bemoan my lot. And though my heart keeps beating only to keep breaking- I do not question why.

What is it that we need to overcome in order to truly be "Ourselves"?

And though my heart keeps beating only to keep breaking-- I do not question why.

And what I need you to believe is that if you hate who I love, you do not know me at all. And make no mistake, "Who I Love" is every last one. I am every last one. People ask of me: Where are you? Where are you?...Verily I ask of you to ask yourself: Where are you? Where are you?