Quotes About Acceptance

I thought my sports career was over once I got into a wheelchair. That was the hardest reality I had to face.

I've never been tall. So it's not like I was six-foot, got paralyzed, and now I'm in a wheelchair. It doesn't really faze me all that much.

There is a good chance that, at 60, I will be in a wheelchair, but hey, I signed up for that. I know that.

All of a sudden, I don't have a leg. I'm in a wheelchair. I have half a foot; I can't even walk to the bathroom. I'm in a bed, I can't move, and I felt like those four walls were my prison.

Who says men don't cry? I used to sob like a baby as I was forced to move around in a wheelchair for two months after twin surgeries on my toes.

I was bullied from fifth grade on. They started making fun of me because my mom was in a wheelchair, then they started making fun of me because I was poor and then it evolved to my size.

I was raised in a family where vulnerability was barely tolerated: no training wheels on our bicycles, no goggles in the pool, just get it done. And so I grew up not only with discomfort about my own vulnerability, I didn't care for it in other people either.

Sometimes the wheels just fall off a relationship.

When in doubt, I choose love above any particular ideas offered to me about faith.

One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.

I've got no idea when I am going to retire. Whenever they pick me up and take me to the funeral home, I guess.

I feel birth, death, marriage is destined, and these things can't be manipulated. I have surrendered my life completely. So, whenever it happens, I will accept it.

I do not think any religion encourages intolerance. Intolerance is the biggest mental defilement, and every religion tries to remove this defilement. So we must understand that whenever there is intolerance, this comes from an irreligious mind. It is not created by religion, and it is not in the mind of the religious person.

I never make plans, because whenever I do I find out God has other plans.

Be patient - if something is supposed to happen, it's going to happen. Whenever I've tried to force things, they didn't go right.

Whenever I've tried to ingratiate myself to an existing community, I tend to give too much, to become whatever it is they want me to be. It's something I do automatically - I've learnt to immediately adapt.

I would get so angry whenever I'd notice people looking at me weirdly. They'd even stop me on the street and ask questions about my skin color.

Whenever I wear things that feel too tight or dig in that's always a clear understanding that I'm not going to feel good that day.

I think whenever you take over a role, you're just really hoping that people will embrace you.

I never force nothing in my game. I let everything come whenever it needed to come. That's the beauty of it.

Whenever there's negotiations, there's things that you absolutely love, and there's things that you accept.

Whenever people reach out the hand of friendship towards me, I am not going to refuse that hand.

Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for birth control.

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order.