Quotes About Acceptance

My poor kids have accepted that being dropped off late to birthday parties, practices, and yes, school, is just part of the large family package.

I'm sounding like Oprah, but if you're not practicing contentment where you are now, you're not getting contentment when you get what you want.

I was never a practicing Muslim. But I do consider myself a Muslim.

To me, one of the things I love about being an actor is that it's never done; it's never perfect, and so it's the process. It's like practicing being okay with things not being perfect and things being outside of your control.

If you love your neighbor and are compassionate, are you automatically a Christian? Practicing present-moment awareness does not entail joining any religion or accepting any belief system.

My motto is never to hold on to anything. I accept and then let go: not just the negatives, but the praise, too. Or it'll get to my head.

When you win, everything is everything. But when you lose, it's all about Allen Iverson and Larry Brown. When we win, I know that I get the praise and Larry Brown gets the praise, but when we lose, it's on me and Larry Brown. That's something that I have to learn to accept and deal with.

Being seen means that your being is held by the other person without comment, without praise or blame or indifference - just with some kind of open care.

If you're open for praise, you have to be open to criticism.

If anything I was probably loved and praised too much as a child. I think that's why I can't accept any compliments.

Whatever happens happens. If something happens, something happens. But I believe in God, and I pray every day.

Gay folks go to church. We pray to the Lord too.

I'm attached to my children with whatever flaws they have, and if some glorious angel broke through the living room ceiling and offered to exchange them for other, better children, I'd cling to my kids and pray away this specter.

I pray if I ever find out I have only about three minutes to live it's during a basketball game, because then I'll have, what, 10, 12 years to live?

You've got to take what comes. You've got to make yourself available for everything; you've got to pray that you're in a position to do the jobs when they come around.

In my career, I am so so happy and grateful for everything I've gotten to do. And yet, I wish I had started off earlier so I could, I don't know... I certainly have not not gotten work because of my age, but I'm just gonna pray and hope that the roles will still keep coming as I get older.

I used to pray every night: 'Please let me look all right from the front.' I didn't care about real life, but I wanted to look good for theatre audiences - I worried about having a funny nose.

The only thing I pray for is the strength to go out without complaining.

You pray for things, and you know, we all have our wishlists, but I've learned to pray for whatever's in your will.

God doesn't love me any more or less because I had some work done on my face. You know, I prayed about it a long, long, long, long, long time, because there again, I wouldn't want to do anything that I felt was going to be offensive to God.

I'm not proud that, in my time, I've tried to harness the power of prayer to fit into a pair of jeans.

What keeps me sane the most is, honestly, the Serenity Prayer.

Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come, because they know I love them all, and I ain't judging nobody.

I say a prayer several times a day about what I can control and what I can't control.