Quotes About Acceptance

9 heures. Encore une journée à vivre, blanche, et tout cela est ma faute, puisque je n'ai pas eu la force de casser à temps, que j'ai accepté l'absolu « droit du maître » (il vient quand il veut, téléphone idem) et qu'il n'y a pas de bonheur, in fine, dans l'oppression.

Le compte à rebours va bientôt commencer. C'est une véritable fête que j'ai préparée, champagne, feu de bois, et le cadeau d'adieu, une gravure ancienne du Moulin de la Galette. La seule façon de finir sans trop souffrir, faire de l'adieu une cérémonie

I would say that although my music may be or may have been part of the cultural background fabric of the gay community, I consider myself an outsider who belongs everywhere and nowhere... Being a human being is what truly counts. That's where you'll find me.

It's important to attend funerals. It is important to view the body, they say, and to see it committed to earth or fire because unless you do that, the loved one dies for you again and again.

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear, we should not judge.

Limitation has success . . . . Unlimited possibilities are not suited to man; if they existed, his life would only dissolve in the boundless. To become strong a man's life needs the limitations ordained by duty and voluntarily accepted.

Happiness is not having what you want, it's wanting what you have.

Find peace with yourself by accepting not only what you are, but what you are never going to be.

If you worry about what might be, and wonder what might have been, you will ignore what is.

Trust because you are willing to accept the risk, not because its safe or certain.

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

Aging is a matter of mind. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

You don't have to be Jewish to love Levy's Rye Bread.

No athlete ever ends his or her career the way you want to. We all want to play forever. But it doesn't work that way. Accepting the end gracefully is part of being a professional athlete.

Playing professional football is something I'll never be able to do.

It's none of our business, the sexual preference of people. So, I hope if someone's thinking about it, that if they do come out as gay and are a professional football player, and it makes them happy, and it makes their life easier, then I think they should do it.

I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.

I don't hope for anything. Not only in my professional life, but in my family life also. My total lifestyle is like that.

I've been able to chart out my professional life. But I can never chart out my personal one.

Of all the mutants on Earth, Professor X could easily pass as a human.

I don't like fame, I prefer to have no profile. But this is not possible for me. This is what I do, so I just have to find a way of being comfortable with it.

Being the way I used to be didn't really fit the family profile. I was always loved but if, say, Dad had an interesting business idea I'd be the last person he'd want to share it with in case I blew the lid on it.

I broke my nose playing netball aged 15. I've hated my profile ever since.

I've seen hate at its worse. What would it profit me to hate?