Quotes About Acceptance

I'm not perfect and no one else is perfect.

You know, you work on things with people if they're not perfect - no one is.

Everybody makes mistakes. I'm definitely not perfect.

Life is not perfect.

People are not perfect, and most marriages are not perfect.

I'm not perfect. No one is.

Talking to people is important to me as someone who has cerebral palsy. I know what it's like to have people not talking to me because they are scared they would ask the wrong question, but I would rather have an honest dialogue as long as it comes from an honest place.

I'm gay. Megan's my girlfriend... These aren't secrets to people who know me. I don't feel like I've not lived my life. I think people have this assumption that if you're not talking about it, you must be hiding it, like it's this secret. That was never the case for me.

We see through the eyes of children that they're not talking about race the way we grown folks are. They're not talking about color or how much melanin is in someone's skin.

I keep trying to write happy endings, but my books always end on more of a bittersweet note of ambiguity.

I think it's important to note that, you know, we live in a time where everything's changed. The idea of blended families is now not foreign to anybody, it's actually quite commonplace.

I've been working now for 24 years. That's a long time to be around for playing only one note, and I'm making a damn good living. And if some still think I'm a woman, that's OK, too.

I am a human being; nothing human can be alien to me.

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear.

In a full heart there is room for everything, and in an empty heart there is room for nothing.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviours.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

My sister is married to a white guy, so it's nothing new for our family.

Real progress will have been made when people don't care or even notice the color of a comedian when they'll just be concerned with whether he's funny.

Everyone knows that I have just accepted, with short notice, the worst job in politics.

You can't go back and change everything because it is incredibly expensive to do. You just have to learn to live with your mistakes. If there aren't too many of them and they aren't too big, people generally don't seem to notice them.

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

People tell me the most extraordinary things. I've noticed it for years. Perhaps they know I won't be shocked. Or judgmental.

I'll never forget the day when a woman came up to me and said, 'No, you could never be on a magazine cover. Your face features don't work; your eyes are small, you have a small face but a big nose.' I was only 14 and I had never noticed any of that stuff, you know?