Quotes About Acceptance

While Money's theory of human newborns as total psychosexual blank slates may strike a contemporary reader as science fiction, such was not the case in the mid-1950s, when it was met with almost universal acceptance by clinicians and scientists

How happy I might be, if only she was less greedy, better tempered, not addicted to raking up old grudges, more affectionate, with slightly yellower hair, slimmer, and about twenty years younger! But what is the good of expecting such a woman to reform?

Can I ever come back here' he asked, and the Woodsman said something very strange in reply. 'Most people come back here,' he said, 'in the end

In the end, you have to let things go. The things you regret are the things you hold on to.

Sometimes we need our pain. We need it to call our own.

Not every wound needs to be poked and opened, and not every wrong needs to be reexamined, or dragged kicking and screaming into the light. Better just to let the wound heal, even if it doesn't heal quite right, or to leave the wrongs in the dark, and remind yourself not to go stepping into the shadows if you can avoid it.

We haunt ourselves, I sometimes think; or, rather, we choose to be haunted. If there is a hole in our lives, then something will fill it. We invite it inside, and it accepts willingly.

Regret, he now knew, was a useless emotion, the poor cousin of guilt.

I learned something that day: there may be worse things than arriving somewhere with your dog and leaving without him, but there aren't many.

The four ages of man, as far as Williamson was concerned, were confusion, anger, complacency, and grumpiness, but it was important to embrace them in the right order. The

As for dying, he didn't believe that he was frightened of it: the manner of it, perhaps, but not the fact of it. After all, he had reached an age where dying had started to become an objective reality instead of an abstract concept.

Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.

He knew there were some who said that those who kept dogs had to resign themselves to their eventual loss because of the animals' relatively short lives. The trick—if "trick" was the right word—was to learn to love the spirit of the animal, and to recognize that it transferred itself from dog to

She had not given me the cross to keep the bad men away, as a child might have been expected to do. No, in her mind the bad men could not be kept away. They were coming, and they would have to be faced.

Those whom you care about—lovers, children—will fall by the wayside, and your love will not be enough to save them.

And you?" said Roland. "You're only a boy. You don't belong here. Aren't you frightened?

wants to accept that someone close might have taken his or her own life. Too much blame accrues to those left behind for it to be accommodated so easily.

A veces necesitamos nuestro dolor. Lo necesitamos para considerarlo nuestro.

I came back," said David, and the Woodsman smiled. "Most people do, in the end," he replied, and David wondered at how like his father the Woodsman was, and how he had failed to notice it before.

Life was simpler, too, if one did not think too hard. -The Burning Soul

How do you explain to someone who thinks you're the devil incarnate, that you're really not?

Thomas Jefferson's classic formulation: 'it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

It is not surprising that efforts to keep gay, lesbian, and bisexual people in their place arise in the wedding context. Sexual orientation is a relational property; it's about the sex or gender of the people with whom you have relationships or desire to have relationships. It manifests itself in the context of those relationships, and unless it manifests itself, would-be discriminators can't target it.

Nothing is against nature!" he retorted. "That's the mistake people make; and it causes endless unhappiness.