Quotes About Acceptance

I've got nothing left to lose. Nothing can hurt me anymore. My life is nothing but comedy." - The Joker

Don't be afraid to try. Don't be afraid to fail. Don't be afraid to color your hair. Try to understand where people are coming from. Don't forget that most people are really good at heart. And if you hate your name, change it.

Light skin gives me such privileges that my complaints are not worthy. I'm not "positive" enough. Not "black" enough. I'm not a "real" black person. Worst of all are the terrible choices - the possibility of losing connections to those I love, betraying them, those who have done terrible things but at the same time have had to survive within the context of racism. Whose side am I on?

Another way of allowing more freedom into the mind is not holding fixed ideas about people and things.

Sou eu o culpado, mas não tenho culpa.

I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is.

Most of my ideas were rejected and I got used to it. One can get fond of almost anything, even rejection.

Plenty of clever children have to pretend to be not clever or else they get bullied by the thick.

There is no such thing as a weird human being, It's just that some people require more understanding than others.

In my youth I looked for answers with a terrible urgency. I craved certainty. Then I started telling myself that, in the end, we have to accept there's a vast amount we just don't know.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

I think the greatest legacy of the civil rights movement is that it made America a better place for all of us, regardless of race or ethnicity.

The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philosophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money.

despair hovered over the land like a plague. They had watched their parents lose their businesses, their farms, their jobs, their hopes. They had learned to accept a future that played out one day

As we made love, our scars met, grazing long enough for mine to say "He tries to hide me," and for yours to reply "I know I embarrass her." "He never learned how to swim," whispered my scar. "She got picked last in gym class, then cried into her pillow," replied yours. Just then, a huge wound opened in me. You touched it. It closed. I was filled, fully healed, and I knew I would never be able not to love you.

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

Thinking and saying you are handicapable instead of handicapped will not change anything about your disease or illness. It will help you think more positively about it though.

Mother Teresa said: "The dying, the crippled, the mentally ill, the unwanted, the unloved - they are JESUS IN DISGUISE...

It would never occur to me to judge anyone.

I think there would be situations that will occur on the field that would be tough for a person who is homosexual, because I know there will be people definitely taking shots at him.

I was constantly falling in love, and it never occurred to me that this was wrong or bad.

It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

I was never in the closet as an actor. It never occurred to me that my sexuality was something to be ashamed of.

A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.