Quotes About Acceptance

I'd be lying if I said that I took it all very calm and cool when my 12-year-old marriage broke up. I did feel angry, bitter, sad, but I didn't let them consume me.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

With someone who is genuinely abusive or a bad person, you should just get out of town. But if they're being the best person they know how to be, then you have to decide if there isn't much there you can love and not become consumed with what they're not able to give you.

Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.

There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.

We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it.

There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.

There's no real test of how Asian you need to be to be able to own your Asianness, and it's always going to be an area of contention.

My concern is that contention is becoming accepted as a way of life.

Contentment does not come from achievement.

I don't look for bliss, just contentment.

I'm always content. I hold much more store in contentment than happiness.

In India, it is not a contradiction for religion and liberalism to co-exist.

My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.

It's quite hard for people to just accept that they're very contradictory.

The essential problems remain the same... The kids I write about are asking for the same things I wanted. They want two contradictory things. They want to be the same as everyone else, and they want to be different from everyone else. They want acceptance for both.

I feel that this nation should open its doors to any person that would like to contribute to this society.

Even if you have something that you can contribute to society, very often society doesn't view you that way. Because when you are The Other, the first response by the mainstream, if you will, is to ostracize.

I try not to think about the things I can't control.

I'm not the only person who has something in their life they can't control.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

I have learned that I am not built for conflict or controversy. I have also learned that, in all my life, I have never chosen a story. The story has always chosen me.

You don't want to endorse hate; you don't want to endorse racism. You don't want to support controversy.

We don't talk about courage much in our everyday conversations, but I am comfortable with it now.