Quotes About Acceptance

I don't much care who is gay or straight or married or not. I mostly notice if they are brave enough to confront bigotry.

Death is never as distant as we believe it to be, and it will never come willingly.

There is no magic number of immigrants, just as there is no perfect mix of high-skilled, low-skilled, relatives, and refugees. What is essential is that America welcome those who are here and remain receptive to the gifts others can bring, whether they come with distinguished degrees or calloused hands.

No matter how perfect a man seems at first, he'll eventually get on your nerves. If you hope to establish lasting love, you must learn to love beyond the feelings.

In time, I was able to learn that as long as I could respect and love myself, I wouldn't settle for less from others.

his mother collapsed at the news that her son had married a shiksa.

It's OK if it's not perfect. You might not seem as professional, but you will seem a lot more genuine.

Mark Twain nailed it: "Comparison is the death of joy." We're with Mark.

You'll often hear that people don't like change, but that's not quite right. People have no problem with change they asked for. What people don't like is forced change—change they didn't request on a timeline they didn't choose. Your "new and improved" can easily become their "what the fuck?" when it is dumped on them as a surprise.

People have no problem with change they asked for. What people don't like is forced change—change they didn't request on a timeline they didn't choose. Your "new and improved" can easily become their "what the fuck?" when it is dumped on them as a surprise.

As a manager, you have to accept the fact that people will make mistakes, but not intentionally, and that mistakes are the price of learning and self-sufficiency.

Don't be afraid to show your flaws. Imperfections are real and people respond to real. It's why we like real flowers that wilt, not perfect plastic ones that never change. Don't worry about how you're supposed to sound and how you're supposed to act. Show the world what you're really like, warts and all.

There's a beauty to imperfection. This is the essence of the Japanese principle of wabi-sabi.

any mountain climber will tell you it's not about reaching the top: It's about the journey, overcoming doubts, bravely going into the unknown. It's about accepting your constraints without letting them overcome your goals.

You have to understand that we're basically a company of misfits and people who didn't fit in anywhere else," he proclaimed. "That's what makes the company so great. We were all lucky to find the place where we belonged.

Frustration and Love can't exist in the same place at the same time, so get real and start doing what you would rather be doing in life. Love your life. All of it. Even the heavy shit that happened to you when you were 8. All of it was and IS perfect.

hardest things about recovery is coming to terms with the fact that you can't trust your brain

One of the hardest things about recovery is coming to terms with the fact that you can't trust your brain anymore.

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.

Maybe—like what the guard said at the gate of the Sun Street—I should not pry open the bleeding wounds of the past. Maybe I should just try to keep my good old memories.

Together, all four now subscribed to a set of teachings that boiled down to "the law of nonresistance," as they described it—fundamentally, making the best of the current moment.

You'll like it here; everyone is quite mad.

I assumed that everything would lead to complete failure, but I decided that didn't matter – that would be my life.

I don't know how to drive a car.