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Quotes About Acceptance

If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood.
~ Malcolm X
Stop trying to figure out what is 'best' for you (how you can win the most, lose the least, get what you want) and start going with what feels like Who You Are.
~ Neale Donald Walsch
If Alex has chosen you, then I want you to believe that I have chosen you as well.
~ Nicholas Sparks
People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue - this is what will endear him to the locals.
~ Orson Scott Card
Lovers offered only what they offered and nothing more, and what they offered came with provisos: believe what you want and don't look carefully at what isn't acceptable to you.
~ Rachel Kushner
Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.
~ Richard Paul Evans
I have dated all races and I believe you should be free to do whatever you want.
~ Sanaa Lathan
I came in ["MADtv"] kind of late in the season. Some of the producers didn't want me but the network did. It was all (messed up) from the beginning.
~ Simon Helberg
My relationships are based on personal reciprocity. Being a Dodger was a matter of heart, but in the end I felt they didn't want me.
~ Steve Garvey
And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.
~ Val Guest
There is no moment that isn't equivalent in value to any other moment. You have to surrender the little mind to the big mind, and turn what you want over to God.
~ Wayne Dyer
Don't invite me if you don't want me.
~ Will Rogers
Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.
~ A. J. Hawk
I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.
~ Abraham A. Ribicoff
You look up to your parents and you want them to accept you, and you don't want them to look at you in a negative light. So you do things to make them proud and accept you.
~ Adepero Oduye
God wants worshipers before workers; indeed the only acceptable workers are those who have learned the lost art of worship.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
I'm in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren't, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I'm not there in an instant.
~ Al Berto
As a culture, we are not comfortable with mortality. We do not accept it the way other cultures do. We cling to youth, and we don't want to die. It's like, 'Well, too bad, we do.'
~ Alan Ball
The biggest waste of brainpower is to want to change something that's not changeable.
~ Albert Brooks
The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it.
~ Albert Camus
Stripping away my ego and accepting my truth even if it's not who I want to see. Makes me want to be better when it's exposed. It's very vulnerable and exhilarating.
~ Aleks Paunovic
Hearts were made for being broken. There's really no way around it if you want to be a human being.
~ Alice Hoffman
I have always felt extremely weird. But I am very happy with my weirdnesses, and I want other people to be very happy with theirs.
~ Alice Sebold
I'm a big people pleaser; I had a very awkward adolescence. Part of me is still that person who wants everyone to like me.
~ Alissa Nutting