Quotes About Acceptance

People accept the facts which come to them through existing channels. They like to hear new things in accustomed ways. They have neither the time nor the inclination to search for facts that are not readily available to them.

The Pobble who has no toesHad once as many as we;When they said, "Some day you may lose them all"—He replied, "Fish fiddle-de-dee!"

Humor is a key to a happy life with ADD.

To tell a person who has ADD to try harder is about as helpful as telling someone who is nearsighted to squint harder.

Forgiving yourself means that you give up on your hope that the past will be different.

There were two off-campus Negro fraternities, one of which Chester pledged for, but even these, he said later, admitted students on the basis of skin shadings, with men of lighter complexion being viewed as more desirable.2

Beware of the deadly donky, falling from the sky' you can choose the way you live, my friend, but not the way you die.

A reasonable amount o' fleas is good fer a dog-keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog, mebbe.

All things being equal (fortunately things are seldom equal, not exactly), people prefer to be with others who look like them, speak the same dialect, and hold the same beliefs. An amplification of this evidently inborn predisposition leads with frightening ease to racism and religious bigotry. Then, also with frightening ease, good people do bad things. I know this truth from experience, having grown up in the Deep South during the 1930s

A society that condemns homosexuality harms itself. (254)

A cheerful faith in human destiny dismisses the rest of life through successive denials.

We are all worthy of one another.

He knew he was going to die but he thought this little thing might provide him with a nothing stool way off in the corner of heaven reserved for fools, people too stupid to come out of the rain. People got to that corner by heaven's back door.

A few women had cried, remembering the way Henry smiled or how he would join them in singing or thinking that the death ofanyone, good or bad, master or not, cut down one more tree in the life forest that shielded them from their own death; but most said or did nothing.

as I said,I believe in fate.Things happen as they are meant to be.We just have to recognize our destiny.

When a voyager begins a journey, he prepares his ship, decides upon his course and sets sail. What else can he do? But he cannot know the outcome – what storms may arise, what new lands he may find, or whether or not he will return. That is destiny, and you must accept it. Never think you can escape destiny.

Fate was cruel, but it was fate.

What fetters the mind and benumbs the spirit is ever the dogged acceptance of absolutes.

She was ghastly and quite mad, but when I grew up I figured her worst punishment was to be herself and I didn't have to do anything more.

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

What could he do but accept the disturbing extent to which memory was fictional and hope that the fiction lay at the service of a truth less richly represented by the original facts?

In my rather brief medical practice,' said David modestly, 'I found that people spend their whole lives imagining they are about to die. Their only consolation is that one day they're right.

I know it sounds like the end of the world, but worlds are ending every day and it's not always such a bad thing.

I just know about sweat and frustration. And that what I once thought was impossible somehow doesn't always stay that way permanently. One day it's suddenly easy and accessible, and mostly because I've stopped struggling against it. I've just accepted where I am, keep showing up, and then the change just happens.