Quotes About Acceptance

My house has always been like everyone's house. You walk in, you're a part of the family, no matter who you are, what celebrity status you are, everyone is treated the same - with love from my mom.

I smiled, for now I understood that it was not an obsession with death that Mexicans had after all, but rather an acceptance of it - woven like a thick vine throughout our lives, helping us transcend death itself and compelling us to live even richer, more meaningful lives.

I do believe that there are African Americans who have thick accents. My mom has a thick accent my relatives have thick accents. But sometimes you have to adjust when you go into the world of film, TV, theatre, in order to make it accessible to people.

Is life too short to be taking this shit, or is life too short to be minding it?

am so deeply impressed with the fair mindedness and tolerance of the American people...

Let us follow our destiny, ebb and flow. Whatever may happen, we master fortune by accepting it.

To have died once is enough.

Press no further with hate.

Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC) The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all...

I don't care what other critics say, I only hope to be played.

One of the great jokes of life is that by the time you're old enough to recognize how little you know, all you can do is mop up the aftermath, dump it in a giant personal hazmat container and move on.

Some people make a bad bed, they just have to lie in it.

We weren't put on Earth to exclude each other.

Life will always flow on, it had whispered gently. You might try to stop it, but no one can alter the flow of life. You can only learn how to move with it gracefully, tumbling through the rough times, restoring yourself during the smooth times, and knowing that wherever it takes you, a mightier hand than yours is guiding you, always directing your path. Moses

It is impossible to go backward and undo the past. All you can do is live with the present and try to make the best of the future.

I'm realizing human nature is a very difficult thing to escape. We can be self-righteous, or realize much of what we hate in others is what we have inside ourselves.

Can't run from hurt, Rose. You might miss some hurt, but you'll also miss all the joys of livin'.

she had realized she could waste energy with anger and frustration, or simply accept what was and do the best she could to make a difference. If

She thought about all she had learned in the past year and accepted the reality that, from the very first moment slavery had been permitted in a country founded on freedom,

You can't do people's thinkin' and feelin' for dem, Rose. Some folks you ain't neber gonna figure out—you just got to accept them where they be. Dere ain't no way to get inside a person's head and figure out what makes them be the way they be. You just got to accept them.

When people fight something with hate and anger, they close the doors to actual change because they close the doors of the person's heart they are trying to change.

People believe easily when it doesn't cause them any discomfort. It's when it hurts to believe that believing means something.

I have come to believe that most people, seeing life from their own perspective, think they are doing the very best thing they can. Others, including myself, may think they have the ability to see things more clearly, and maybe we can, but a person can only act from their own perceptions. I find myself more able to find understanding and acceptance

When people fight something with hate and anger, they close the doors to actual change because they close the doors of the person's heart