Quotes About Acceptance

Don't ignore your pain. Register, accept, then work with your own body to push through. Naming your pain . . . It's simply a device to help you identify and focus. If calling your pain Melvin makes you feel stupid, don't do it. Refer to it as Pain or don't call it anything at all. But acknowledge your pain threshold. Consider how your injury feels. Then work with your body to do what you need to do.

We are both women who understand there's no point to the coulda, woulda, shouldas of life.

Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events.

Whiteness in a racist, corporate-controlled society is like having the image of an American Express Cardstamped on one's face: immediately you are "universally accepted."

The propaganda machine keeps on churning out lies and deceit. And the obedient, unthinking, apathetic people in our society keep accepting it.

I do accept at least half of what society in general holds to be right.

Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

The problem with the stigma around mental health is really about the stories that we tell ourselves as a society. What is normal? That's just a story that we tell ourselves.

Ours is an open and accepting society, and has historically provided an avenue for lawful immigration to all those willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship.

Be brave and celebrate with us your 'perceived flaws,' as society tells us. May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous.

We are now integrated into American society and I don't like the word fashionable, because fashionable means that it's going to pass. It's not like that anymore.

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.

I found myself being more and more involved with people who were rejected by society - with drug addicts, alcoholism, battered this, battered that - and I found an affinity there.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition, no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.

Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the new other.

Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

I think there's a certain numbness in modern society, that accepts certain kinds of violence, but represses other kinds of violence.

I have a heart, says science, but I am a monster, says society.

Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.