Quotes About Acceptance

For some it is love undeniably. For others it is making it work, never actually knowing what it is.

With me, it's much more a matter of accepting whatever happens, accepting all these elements from the outside and then trying to work with them in a sort of free collaboration.

Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.

Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.

It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or wonder and dispute, but just work in our own places, and leave the rest to God.

While someone can attempt to shame you, shame must also be accepted to be effective. We can't make you feel shame without your participation.

It's entirely possible that there won't be a standing ovation at the end of your journey. That's okay. At least you lived.

If you deny the reality of your body or your life, you'll never be able to dress any of it well - even the parts you love. You have to see it all to work with any of it.

I couldn't work my way into being a good-looking guy.

I don't think it's a secret that New York tastemakers don't love my work.

When I listen to my work, I think, what's so inflammatory about it? It's not really that dissonant. A lot of people who used to hate my stuff have come round to it.

When the last moment arrives, praise and blame will be the same to you, to me, and to others. We are here to work, and will have to leave all when the call comes.

I am accepted by God through the work of Jesus Christ - therefore I obey

I know I work quite hard at making people like me.

I'm not really managing the work-life balance, I'm just accepting that the work increases and the ordinary life has to decrease when you're the prime minister.

Things work in spite of me sometimes.

Being myself didn't work. Being someone else didn't work. Maybe I just wasn't meant to have friends.

The art world was not initially really accepting my kind of work. I was ahead of my time.

My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much.

I think that within the world of music that we work in, which is so not perfect, I think that you really do have to learn to accept your own mistakes as part of the beauty of music itself.

If you know that whatever is made inevitable breaks down, you needn't seek too hard for achievement. If you know that all living beings inevitably die, you needn't work too hard on health lore.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

If your love for another person doesn't include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.

Recovery is hard. Regret is harder.