Acceptance Quotes
I know what it's like to battle everyday of my life, just for acceptance, just to survive.
Life's too short to care about what other people think. Besides, they should accept us for who we are
The chief pang of most trials is not so much the actual suffering itself as our own spirit of resistance to it.
When someone else's safety and acceptance in society is on the line, your personal discomfort comes in a very distant second.
I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.
Never beg for mercy. Accept that you have failed. Begging is for dogs and humans.
Over the last few years, my comfort level with how I look has improved. My age has helped. You get used to yourself and accept yourself.
There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding
When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right.
When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.
I don’t want there to be things you “love about me”, I want you to love “all of me”.
You won't ever build your confidence from a perception of lack. For it grows and evolves from realising who you are and what you already have.
If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.
If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve.
No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road.
Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.
As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.
There's no alternative to being yourself. Accept it, honour it, value it - and get on with it.
I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.
The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be
When I decided to go into politics I weighed the costs. I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.
We must plant trees, grow gardens instead of lawns, ride bicycles when we can and support responsible local businesses over big brands.
At the end of the day, that's what a family is - a group of different people who accept each other.
People will ask you the question 'how is life treating you?' But my question is 'how are you treating life?' On that your happiness rests
I, painting from myself and to myself, Know what I do, am unmoved by men's blame Or their praise either.
Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.
I think we're a little bit more astray, more far afield from true integration and true acceptance.
To attain his dream, the warrior of light needs a strong will and an enormous capacity for acceptance.
... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art.
The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.
Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.
The transition from rebellion to acceptance has an extremely important consequence. . . in which we start seeing life as a training school, to teach us what we need to learn.
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
The way towards freedom from a situation often lies in acceptance of the situation.
Only an acceptance of both the flowers and the thorns can bring you peace. Peace, after all, is the fruit of total acceptance.
The most wonderful inspirational chemistry we can use on another is the gift of our love and acceptance. Devoted and unquestioned love has a magic creative power.
The sins of the Midwest: flatness, emptiness, a necessary acceptance of the familiar. Where is the romance in being buried alive? In growing old?
She now knew her death was inevitable, and with that acceptance came liberation. The courage of the condemned.
Inherent in mourning is celebration. Mourning without celebration or some form of acceptance leaves you stuck.
Comedy takes all of life and puts it through a lens of acceptance, just by the mere act of talking about it on stage in a communal setting. It's very primal and ritualistic in that sense.
This sounds crazy, but my goal is to be nominated for an Oscar. I was the kid who was practicing my acceptance speech when I was ten.
A moment of something between acceptance and resignation of one's smallness in the world.