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Quotes About Acceptance

Open your life wide, and take me in forever. I will never be tired-I will never be noisy when you want to be still...nobody else will see me, but you-but that is enough-I shall not want any more.
~ Emily Dickinson
And what if I don't want forgiveness?
~ Erica Jong
acceptance is an art that must be mastered if we want to keep our friends for the span of life that remains to us, and presently step off the stage with our self-respect intact.
~ Ethel Smyth
I don't accept armed struggle. Maybe it was the way in the '50s and '60s, but we want a democratic revolution.
~ Evo Morales
About being grateful for what you have instead of yearning for what you think you want.
~ Gayle Forman
People want to put you in the box, and you just have to fight past their preconceived notions.
~ Gina Carano
I like my nuts," Mooner said. "I don't want them cut off. I'd be, like, nutless then.
~ Janet Evanovich
A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.
~ Johnny Thunders
Everybody wants to be loved. God already loves you; all you have to do is believe and accept it.
~ Joyce Meyer
But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today.
~ Louisa May Alcott
if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
To deserve this fate what have I ever done?... All I want is just a little piece of mind but the angels won't have it.
~ Melissa Etheridge
In my 20s I used to cry about why I wasn't thinner or prettier, but I want to add that I also used to cry about things like: 'I wish my hair would grow faster. I wish I had different shoes …
~ Melissa McCarthy
People are like, "Oh, I want to make your eyes almond." I don't have almond eyes! Why are you trying to change my eye shape?
~ Miley Cyrus
That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.
~ Phil Collins
Never get involved with someone who wants to change you
~ Quentin Crisp
I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
~ Olivia Munn
If you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart - the people who truly love you want you to love yourself.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Accept your friends for who they are, not for who you want them to be.
~ Oscar de la Renta
I have 8-year-old twins, and I want them to grow up in a world where they can be anyone they want without any shame, without holding back, without being judged for it.
~ Rib Hillis
Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.
~ Robert Breault
It seems to me that if there is some infinite being who wants us to think alike he would have made us alike.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
...like a grain of sand that gets into an oyster's shell. What if the grain doesn't want to become a pearl? Is it ever asked to climb out quietly and take up its old position as a bit of ocean floor?
~ Robin McKinley
Friends come in all sizes, take it from me! Golly gee, size doesn't matter, when you want some friendly patter from a pal who is true.
~ Robin Williams