Quotes About Acceptance

How many times must I tell all of you! Sky, ground, or target. Damn it, you don't point a gun at another person unless you are prepared to kill that person. He scowled at Ona. A careless accident could cost one of you a husband. I've told you from the beginning. The Oregon men won't accept a crippled wife. They insist on brides who are healthy and whole.

Bootie Grant Glover! You do amaze me! Mem stared at her sister. Do I understand this? You're giving me permission to engage in a romantic tryst? Certainly not! Bootie pulled to her full diminished height. I'm merely saying if disaster strikes, I won't abandon you.

Stop searching yourself trying to understand why someone else treated you the way they did. The answer is not inside you; it's inside them, out of reach.

Start making yourself at home in your life as it is.

At my age, I don't plan that far ahead. I don't even buy green bananas." Maggie Smith in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel.

I believe that I am past my prime. I had reckoned on my prime lasting till I was at least fifty.

By making love conditional, tough love undermines familial affection, removing the one refuge where people can ordinarily assume they are loved for who they are, not what they do.

They could talk about shallow things without judgment and deep things without self-consciousness.

On the wall was a dress that I embroidered. It said Ich Habe Genug. Which is a Bach Cantata. Which I once thought meant I've had it, I can't take anymore, give me a break. But I was wrong. It means I have enough. And that is utterly true. I happen to be alive. End of discussion. But I will go out and buy a hat.

One is congenitally a woman; one tries not to be, but it's a question of one's humanity.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that—sometimes—we're better off that way. 1.

Montezuma's speech was not his surrender; it was his acceptance of a Spanish surrender.

and if we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

Her idea was that you should be whatever you want to be, including being a blonde.

If we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments. We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way.

The line between hostility and acceptance between an epidemic that tips and one that does not, is sometimes a lot narrower than it seems.

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We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that- sometimes- we're better off that way.

The Consul looked at the sun. But he had lost the sun: it was not his sun. Like the truth, it was well-nigh impossible to face; he did not want to go anywhere near it, least of all, sit in its light, facing it.

You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being here in America doesn't make you an American. Being born here in America doesn't make you an American.

You cannot explain failure any more than you can argue with success.

I wouldn't do anything different. Every mistake and every success made me the person I am today. And I am proud of who I am.