Quotes About Acceptance

So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

An America where every person, no matter their race, their disability or their sexual orientation realizes the full promise of equality that is our birthright as Americans.

I'm not intimidated by anyone. Everyone is made with two arms, two legs, a stomach and a head. Just think about that.

Equality means more than passing laws. The struggle is really won in the hearts and minds of the community, where it really counts.

And when I say equality, I mean equality for everybody. Who are you telling who they can marry and who they can't? What is this? This is 2014.

Today, we talk a lot about equality, but I think what most people mean by it is sameness - that everybody is the same - and they are afraid if they are not the same, they are not equal.

People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.

I believe in gender equality.

It's on us to investigate ourselves for any lingering sense that we are 'giving' equality. We are not. It is already given. And not by us.

We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance.

Your hearing status doesn't make you a better person. Your humanity does.

It doesn't matter who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it only matters that you love!

And she didn't judge nobody. She loved everyone equal- accountants, queers, musicians, she welcomed us all, said we were all idiots just the same.

I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.

We don't have to do it any better than we can - ever. Do our best for the moment, then let it go. If we have to redo it, we can do our best in another moment, later.

Commitment is mental determination to accept only EXCELLENCE no matter how difficult, uncomfortable, or stressful.

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol.

Human tragedies:We all want to be extraordinaryand we all just want to fit in.Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in.

It's my experience that the fluidity of sexuality with younger people is more accepted.

Our reluctance to honestly examine the experience of aging and dying has increased the harm we inflict on people and denied them the basic comforts they most need.

I'm slowly becoming a repository for decomposing sorrows, regrets, ignored injustice, and forgotten promises. I can still feel its stench. But when I get accustomed to it, I will call it experience.

Radical Acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our lives as it is.