Quotes About Acceptance

I dig my father. I wish he could open his eyes and dig me.

Reflecting back on my childhood, I know it wasn't functional. I was very unconditionally loved and accepted, I felt, by my father.

I think that not being loved by your parents or not having a brother or not being liked at school or even wearing glasses can be a lot worse than having a famous father.

Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.

My father loved all different types of music. He wasn't a snob. He wasn't a purist.

My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And he never, ever liked rock and roll. He just liked me.

The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child.

Most people cant' deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated.

I don't fear death because I don't fear anything I don't understand. When I start to think about it, I order a massage and it goes away.

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.

You can't let the fear of something completely and absolutely inevitable.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

In loss itself I find assuagement: having lost the treasure, I've nothing to fear.

We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased we are glad. If they aren?t it doesn?t matter.

When we are willing to stay even a moment with uncomfortable energy, we gradually learn not to fear it.

Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear.

Fear is nonacceptance of what is.

If you thought eighth grade was tough, try it with fangs and a fear of garlic.

We must learn to die, and to die in the fullest sense of the word. The fear of the end is the source of all lovelessness

Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.

l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.