Quotes About Acceptance

You've got to understand and accept that nothing in the world is perfect. The sooner you understand that, the better it will be.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

You learn you have to accept the way things are, and the sooner you accept them, the sooner you become at peace with them, and then the things start to get better.

Time for me is double-edged: every day brings me further from the low of my last cancer relapse, but every day also brings me closer to the next cancer recurrence - and eventually, death. Perhaps later than I think, but certainly sooner than I desire.

You can't force people to feel in a certain way, and the sooner you understand that,the better. I feel everything has its way of working.

My motto is to help people love themselves sooner. I can't teach them how to do that. They have to figure that out on their own - that's their journey.

The bottom line is people are people, and the sooner we realise that, the better off things are going to be.

For me, if there's something I don't like about myself, I'll accept it - the sooner you can accept it, then you can work on making it better.

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.

I believe in destiny. What has to come my way always does, sooner or later.

Do not resist a new idea. Be quietly receptive. Go along with it, even unwillingly at first. Sooner or later, it will reveal itself as your ally.

Medicine is a very tough thing. I mean, everyone is going to die. Sooner or later. That's a tough thing to face.

I know sooner or later I'll lose.

Sooner or later they are going to live in a New York City where gay marriage is not only legal, but it's common and they don't even notice.

Sooner or later, directors in Germany will start casting without regard to where a person is from. It shouldn't matter anymore.

We learned to separate, and accept the fact that my mother is gone, yet there she is on TV, on a billboard, sooner or later in a conversation, in a magazine on a regular basis.

Kids who are nine, 10 and 11 are pretty sophisticated readers; they know that there isn't always a good outcome every time and that problems don't always have solutions.

We always want what we don't have, and I'd like a long, sophisticated nose rather than a short, turned-up one.

I made fun of myself before everybody else could, so I always got the comic crowns: Freshman Fink, Sophomore Fairy, Junior Birdman. I got all three of them!

Directors didn't know what to do with me in college. I didn't really sound like a belter. I didn't look like a soprano. But in New York, I was in the right place at the right time, where my unusualness fit the bill.

You can't sing baritone when you're a soprano.

Let's be honest, I've never said I wasn't a sore loser.

I'm not a sore loser.

When I was younger, I definitely did face anti-ginger prejudice. As a child, all teasing hurts, whether it's because you're fat or a different race or have red hair. I had enough comments from a couple of people to make it a sore point.