Quotes About Acceptance

Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth; that its love and prosy sageness, so important a few years ago, so gladly offered now, are rejected with laughter.

Once I stopped playing I didn't have the urge or drive to play again.

We all feel the urge to conform; it is the most normal of human desires.

I feel like I've really made Laguna my home, and I've got this overwhelming urge now to sort of make friends.

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

None of us is responsible for the complexion of his skin. This fact of nature offers no clue to the character or quality of the person underneath.

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

The five stages - denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance - are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. But they are not stops on some linear timeline in grief.

When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Bitterness and resentment only hurt one person, and it's not the person we're resenting - it's us.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.

Sometimes, life is unfair, and you have to suck it up and move on and not use it as an excuse.

I am an American. Black. Conservative. I don't use African-American, because I'm American, I'm black and I'm conservative. I don't like people trying to label me. African- American is socially acceptable for some people, but I am not some people.

Don't make things too complicated. Try to relax, enjoy every moment, get used to everything.

I used to have nightmares that they would put 'He played Ted' on my tombstone.

They always say, 'Time heals.' But it really doesn't. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of 'OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.' So going forward, anything bad that happens can't be nearly as bad as what happened before.

I was raised Catholic, but then I discovered Buddhism, and I used to have a boyfriend who was a Scientologist, and they are all good religions that help people. As far as I'm concerned, you can have all three religions at once and it's okay!

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

Things do not always happen the way I would like them to happen, and I had better get used to that.