Quotes About Acceptance

The fact is I have lost a fight, and I accept the loss from Allah. That's the way a real fighter and a real man goes out.

You cannot change a person. Let them be. Let them be the way they are.

Everyone should be able to express themselves in the way that best suits them - life is too short to spend it unhappy.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

Most of me was glad when my mother died. She was a handful, but not in a cute, festive way. More in a life-threatening way, that had caused me a long time ago to give up all hope of ever feeling good about having had her as a mother.

I've never looked at myself and said that I need to be a certain way to be around a certain sort of people. I've always wanted to stay true to myself, and I've managed to do that. People have to accept that.

I'm just really a free spirit. You gotta be like that. 'Cause life ain't that complicated. It's only that complicated when you make it that way. I just wanna wake up and move with the way it goes. If it's meant to happen, it will happen.

The liberalism I was taught was you're supposed to accept everyone. Why shouldn't the people in Fort Wayne, Ind., get their side on NBC News?

People can say I'm fat but I know my own body. I always look big because I'm bigger built - I've got that Wayne Rooney type of body.

I'm still coping with my trauma, but coping by trying to find different ways to heal it rather than hide it.

Take everything you know. Take your whole selves. Be inclusive. Be open. Make history in the infinite ways that your heart takes you.

Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.

We face fear many times a day, in many ways, and usually we turn away from it. It often hides itself behind laziness and complacency, which are its shadows and aliases. We accept the things-as-they-are world in which we are comfortable.

I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.

I want to tell people that there are more ways to be beautiful, there are more ways to be handsome.

You're all beautiful in your own unique ways and there is no one in the world like you and that is what makes us special.

In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.

I think when someone knows who they are and is comfortable and confident with that, I think a lot of the typical, aesthetic things sort of fall by the wayside.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.

Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.

If it's stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You've planned, you've trained, you've done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that's facing you. And then after that, there's nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.