Quotes About Acceptance

She told me about the cop. And the movie star, and the construction worker. You're not having a life Michael, you're fucking the Village People one at a time

Don Juan tells Castaneda that if you live by the Ego, then you can count on being offended or defensive for the rest of your life.

Life is not what we want but what we have.

To look good in defeat is the ultimate a person can want.

Always behave as if nothing had happened, no matter what has happened.

If life is not a continual denial of the past, then it is nothing.

Nothing lasts forever--not even your troubles.

Now a regular occurrence in the eighteenth century repeats itself: the aristocracy accepts the viewpoint and standards of value of the middle class; virtue becomes a fashion in the upper class.

Oh, drat,' said Toad. 'Not only do my feet hurt, but I have lost one of the buttons on my jacket.

For the hundreds of thousands of Californians in gay and lesbian households who are managing their day-to-day lives, this decision affirms the full legal protections and safeguards I believe everyone deserves.

I don't suffer of anything that I lost.

Een paard,' mompelt Sylvie. 'Een paardenmeisje. Ook dat nog. Ons blijft niets bespaard.

Mijn indruk is helemaal niet dat patiënten alleen maar genezen willen worden, ze willen ergens mee kunnen leven, dat verschilt fundamenteel van genezen.

Leven is eigenlijk niets anders dan afscheid nemen van leven. Dat is de kern van het leven, en liefde is afscheid nemen van liefde - het is allemaal één groot afscheidsfeest. Het was een mooi afscheidsfeest, maar ik moet nu naar huis, even uitslapen, de afwas doen van verleden week. Begrijp je?

Zij was ziek, en ik was de ziekte. Dat is het verhaal. Andere mensen kunnen zeggen: "Ik ben ziek. Ik moet genezen." Of: "Ik kan niet genezen, hoe graag ik dat ook zou willen." Maar de ziekte kan dat niet. Dat is het verschil tussen het bijvoeglijk en het zelfstandig naamwoord. De ziekte moet ziekte blijven. Ik ben het zelfstandig naamwoord.

De mens is een zoogdier dat zich er niet bij kan neerleggen dat er geen veiligheid bestaat en die dat tekort compenseert met een intense verspreiding van huiselijkheid.

In some ways England is more liberal than France, but I also find it more intrusive. But when you go abroad you have to accept the ways of where you live. I have to respect that.

However, as good or as bad as yesterday may have been, it is unchangeable. There is nothing I can do to bring it back.

As much as God loves his children, it is misplaced faith that asks him to prevent all pain in this life, especially the pain we created for ourselves. When we ask God to remove the natural consequences of our own behavior, we set ourselves up for disappointment and frustration. As a wise friend once said, "It is foolish to think you can sow your wild oats on Saturday and pray for crop failure on Sunday.

I don't believe we are put through hard times in order to learn a lesson that we couldn't learn some other way. But if we never get off the "why" question, if we never get unstuck from the idea that life is unfair to us, then we will never have a healthy response to living. We'll buy into all the reactions that take away our inner peace and eat away at us.

Our constant barrage of why's sounds a lot like whining to me. If you are a "why-ner," you're not looking for solutions. You are not interested in answers. You only want sympathy. But if you stop "why-ning," you can develop a belief system that says there are unfair things that happen in life that are an integral part of existence, and that when they happen you'll deal with them the best you can. Only then are you in the position to start making changes in your life.

Americans are broad-minded people. They'll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater, and even a newspaperman, but if a man doesn't drive, there is something wrong with him.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.

Don't stereotype cause everyone is their type