Quotes About Acceptance

Having a love-hate relationship with road trips is inevitable.

I'm totally fine with myself. It's the other people I run into out there who are so hung up on gender. The way it trips them up is their problem, not mine.

If I could learn to treat triumph and disaster the same, then I would find bliss.

It is one of the triumphs of modern society that the life of the average person with Down Syndrome has become strikingly normal.

I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.

I loved Dad more for treating the biological reality as trivial, irrelevant. He loved me no less than his other three children.

Grade 9: I was too small for football, too shy for drama class, but I did have a passion for music. And so, with a mouth full of braces (and a glorious mullet), I accepted that the trombone would be a fantastic scholastic counterpart to my extracurricular loves: country music, and the guitar.

It's a consoling notion that death is a very tiny hole, and you need to make yourself very small to get through it. One obviously needs to lighten off, and a rucksack full of bricks or a mantelpiece full of trophies will certainly have to be abandoned - the sooner the better, I say.

The acceptance to Harvard was more of trophy than a real possibility to me. I would have been miserable.

I wanted to be a trophy wife, and I was fine with that. I thought I had my life written out - what it was going to be, what kind of woman I was going to be - and none of it happened.

I dont regret for one minute that I only won one trophy because again, to play at Wembley and lift the trophy, how many players can say that? Of course, Id like to have been in contention to win trophies every single year, but I wasnt, but I can sleep easy at night knowing I got the best out of what I had.

If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

Segregation never brought anyone anything except trouble.

I have trouble with letting go. That's my problem.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

There was a darkness, a melancholy, that people had trouble accepting. Maybe now, it would work better.

Honestly, I'm cool with everyone, and people pick up on that. I'd say, 'I'm not gay, but it's all good.' It's kind of like going to Paris when you don't know the language; some Americans get into trouble over there, but I'm just like, 'Sorry, I don't speak French.'

People who have trouble finding acceptance and love in their life settle for whatever they can get.

It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a bummer. I just constantly try to put things into perspective.

Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.

I was always a class clown, so I never had trouble fitting in; I just had trouble finding out where I really wanted to be.

When one guy undermines the other, it only causes trouble, and the team isn't successful. It's very important for both of us to accept our role and help the team. One guy can get hot, and if that's Alex, I'll support him and help any way I can.

I can't read scripts any more because of the trouble with my eyes.