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Quotes About Acceptance

Over time, she'd come to believe that the only true emotional infirmity was denial; once a thing was accepted, it could be met without fear. She wished she could tell him that it was no weakness
~ S.D. Perry
Realization comes when we honestly accept the mistakes of the past and that automatically builds the responsibility that will prevent us from repeating those same mistakes.
~ S.L. Bhyrappa
He was of the Old Religion, like nearly all Mackenzies, and wouldn't object to a Catholic ceremony - his faith taught that all paths to the Divine were valid. Christians tended to be a little more exclusive.
~ S.M. Stirling
Not a lad anymore; old flesh doesn't heal like young. Learn to like it; when you're hurting, you're not dead.
~ S.M. Stirling
It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.
~ Sabrina Jeffries
The Abbe Paul looked at Agnes rather as Alain had, with respect. 'How sensible. People are desperate to probe mysteries which for the most part are best left unprobed. It is the modern curse: this demented drive to explain every blessed thing. Not everything can be explained. Nor should be, I think.
~ Salley Vickers
It is itself a kindness to accept kindness, Doctor.
~ Salley Vickers
Is it true we'd rather be ruined than changed?
~ Salley Vickers
There is only one true legitimacy, and it's bestowed by love, not male lineage.
~ Sally Beauman
Festering with regret changes not one thing.
~ Sally Koslow
Jesus told them, God is like the dad who couldn't stop loving his boy, And people are like the son who said, Does my dad really want me to be happy? Jesus told people this story to show them what God is like. And to show people what they are like. So they could know, however far they ran, however well they hid, however lost they were- it wouldn't matter. Because God's children could never run to far, or be too lost, for God to find them.
~ Sally Lloyd-Jones
Because Harry knew there was no forever. Not for them. Such things were impossible. There was only today, there was only tonight. And he'd do well not to forget it.
~ Sally Malcolm
He didn't promise to always be there. Whatever Ash might think, Harry knew it was impossible. And there was no point in wishing for impossible things.
~ Sally Malcolm
I learned: the first lesson of my life: nobody can face the world with his eyes open all the time.
~ Salman Rushdie
This is how we are: we fall in love with each other's strengths, but love deepens towards permanence when we fall in love with each other's weaknesses.
~ Salman Rushdie
My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
~ Salman Rushdie
But shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture.
~ Salman Rushdie
If you want pay, then just be gay.
~ Salman Rushdie
She says, trying uselessly to console me: 'What are you so long for in your face? Everybody forgets some small things, all the time!' But if small things go, will large things be close behind?
~ Salman Rushdie
Sometimes it's just over and you can't make it all right. Justification by works: an overrated idea.
~ Salman Rushdie
In spite of all my efforts to create a neat, tidy, obedient, moderate, unexceptional persona, I was simply too weird for them; until that is, my first female tutor was hired.
~ Salman Rushdie
What can't be cured must be endured.
~ Salman Rushdie
How young he was when he made the surprisingly adult resolution to escape from the unpalatable reality of dreams into the slightly more acceptable illusions of his everyday, walking life!
~ Salman Rushdie
Kaderini kucakla dedi, Sana üzüntü verenden keyif al. Kaçmak istediÄŸin ÅŸeye doÄŸru dön ve bütün kalbinle ona koÅŸ. TalihsizliÄŸini yaln?z ona dönüÅŸerek aÅŸabilirsin.
~ Salman Rushdie