Quotes About Acceptance

I didn't know there were women who wore men's clothes and had men's haircuts. But like a traveler in a foreign country who runs into someone from home - someone they've never spoken to but know by sight - I recognized her with a surge of joy.

I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life.

You are wrong when you say there is no power in being a woman. When I think of my mother and the women in my tribe, and the hidden women in the harem, I know there are many types of power in this world...I found power in accepting the truth of who I am. It may not be a truth that others can accept, but I cannot live any other way. How would it be to live a lie every minute of your life? I don't think I could do it.

Even a leaf in the wind settles sometimes.

until we make peace with our homes, we can never quite make peace with ourselves.

He was not afraid, in fact he was content to go: So much that had been pleasurable in his life was now beyond his capacity, and that he could not bear.

Life goes on, you know, and there are compensations to be found. We cannot keep harking back to the past.

Each man was born to his degree, and a happy man was one who did not question his place in life.

things had once stood between them. That had gone for ever, she knew, and in its place there was a terrible sense of loss that sometimes threatened to overwhelm

Curiosity…endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

Ça ne fait rien"4 (or "It does not matter," more loosely translated as "Don't worry, we'll sort it"). Paul and Linda heard Richards's comment as "San Ferry Anne," a phrase they adopted to mean "don't worry," and true to form, McCartney began toying with the phrase as the title for a new song.

So just relax, keep your mind open, and accept the feeling for what it is: the Little Monster fading away. In this frame of mind, these become moments of real pleasure rather than moments of struggle.

No more to say, and nothing to weep for

Thus, as the Buddha said to a lady who offered him a curse,the gift is returned to the giver when it is not accepted

You know, the guys there were so beautiful—they've lost that wounded look that fags all had 10 years ago.

Am I a Stalinist? A Capitalist? A Bourgeois Stinker? A rotten Red? No I'm a fairy with purple wings and white halo translucent as an onion ring in the transsexual fluorescent light of Kiev Restaurant after a hard day's work

I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love and suffering. And, there is no degree of love or intensity of feeling that does not bring with it the possibility of a crippling hurt. But, it is a duty to take that risk and love without reserve or defense.

Now I'm an old man and I won't live another 20 years maybe not another 20 weeks, maybe the next second I'll be carried off to rebirth the worm farm, maybe it's already happened- How should I know, says Allen Ginsberg Maybe I've been dreaming all along-

There's a difference between religion and faith, Chandi said, Religion means you've accepted a set of beliefs even if those beliefs would appear to be irrational to anyone who doesn't buy into them. Faith means you've chosen to accept something that you've given yourself the chance to question.

We learn to live with sadness like a great, lovely companion, because it's a soft sadness that softens the heart and makes you open to everything.

You can't go back. You can't have what was stolen. Just forget...

Realization hit her, but she didn't want to believe. Didn't want to be hurt.

Helen stood up., Accept that the universe is an apparently random dance. There may be a pattern to it-I think there probably is-but we can't see it from where we are.You have to let the dance happen. You'll love some of it and hate some it.

Roma?" I was surprised, though I knew Roma was a perennial problem. She could be cruel, but despite a few truly alarming incidents, I tried to believe that Roma was, at heart, a good person. Charlie had once asked, "Mom? What do I do if every time I see someone, I feel bad about myself?" "Sweetheart," I'd said, "you can try to make friendships work, but it's OK to just let some people go.