Quotes About Acceptance

We tell ourselves zombie stories to remind us we shouldn't live beyond the natural boundaries of life - or seek a third stage of life in this world.

A man always has to leave his homeland, go to another time zone, another culture, to get a different recognition - to be accepted as someone who's following a different path, who's moving into a different mode.

One of the main reasons people get bullied, in any walk of life, is because they are different. So I think that to throw kids in at the deep end when they are young is a good thing. It gets them used to other people and some of the things they will face. It takes them out of their comfort zone.

I'm not a completely envy-free zone - I envy 25-year-old men with magnificent bodies - but when I look at my colleagues on the whole, I don't think I have much to envy!

I've been a wrestling fan my whole life, and for so many years a lot of us have been, for lack of a better word, bullied. We've been teased, kidded, eyes rolled from our peers and family members. 'You watch wrestling?!?' I see my shows as a safe zone, a safe haven.

Love is all about understanding each other. There are thousands of perfect men out there but I might find my comfort zone in a pretty average guy. That's love for me.

I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.

We only have a Plan A. The acceptance and full implementation of the existing plan, the so-called Plan A, is the best solution for Greece, for the euro zone and also for creditors and holders.

Is my strike zone bigger than others? Yeah. It might be bigger than others, but I don't have a problem with it.

I don't stay in the constant worried and over-thinking zone.

Not having a safe zone or people to talk to or be around others in the same position is toughest thing ever.

My sister gave my two-and-a-half year old this book called 'And Tango Makes Three,' about the gay penguin couple at the Central Park Zoo. They cared for an orphan egg 'til it hatched and then raised the baby penguin as their own. I cannot get through this book without copious amounts of tears and snot running down my face.

Some people confuse acceptance with apathy, but there's all the difference in the world. Apathy fails to distinguish between what can and what cannot be helped; acceptance makes that distinction. Apathy paralyzes the will-to-action; acceptance frees it by relieving it of impossible burdens.

Acceptance is not submission; it is acknowledgement of the facts of a situation. Then deciding what you're going to do about it.

Never deny a diagnosis, but do deny the negative verdict that may go with it.

Who except the gods can live without any pain?

If you have arthritis, calmly say, I was always complaining about the ruts in the road until I realized that the ruts are the road.

"Okay, I have arthritis, and this is the way arthritis is." Take pain as it comes and you can better master it.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few more upon it.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.

How base a thing it is when a man will struggle with necessity! We have to die.

Anything in life that we don't accept will simply make trouble for us until we make peace with it.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.