Quotes About Acceptance

Accept that, like many men, you have a streak of the homoerotic in you. Why would you, why would anyone, want to be that straight?

Call it stubborn, call it ignorant, call it what you want, but I don't think I have to join a particular faith or culture or creed or religion just to fit in.

I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something.

Sometimes we don't want to accept who we really are, and we lie to each other, to ourselves.

No one wants to be hated, in public, by lots of people.

If a Hindu wants to find the way to God, he has the right to go to any priest, nun or any other person.

I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

Because if their own parents didn't care enough about them to keep them, who would want them in Heaven?

I was always so relieved that anyone wants to publish anything I've written.

When I look down at my pale, skinny body, I wonder why any woman would want to sleep next to it, let alone embrace it.

In the United States, we want to believe we will never become a country of refugees.

Jamie: "I didn't want anybody to be weird around me." Landon: "Including me?" Jamie: "Especially you! You know, I was getting along with everything fine. I accepted it, and then you happened!"

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

It's pretty tough on your loved ones to try to get back into a rhythm, especially when all you want to do is do nothing.

Whereas the town knows all about you already and wants to know more and wants to beat you with what it knows till how can you have any of yourself left at all?

People love the way they're capable of loving-but that's not always how you want them to love or how you think they should love.

I'm very comfortable with being a female now but when I was a little kid I only wanted to be a boy. I didn't want to be a girl. I didn't feel like a man inside... being a boy was just cooler.

Do not struggle against your thoughts; they are stronger than you are. If you want to be free of them, accept them.

Performers have the right to say what they want to, and anyone paying money has the right to accept or reject the art and entertainment that's available.

I get along so much better with fundamentalist Christians than I do with wishy-washy liberals, who want everyone to get along.

I really don't like people that go on about getting followed around, I don't like it - there are people in the industry that don't wanna take everything that comes with it. I take it all.

People want to go back to those old days, but it's probably not going to happen.

You've got to be a fool to want to stop the march of time.

I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way.