Quotes About Acceptance

Middle Age, a restful, welcome break from real life, brings some unique opportunities.

All my life I've lived with a future which constantly diminishes but never vanishes.

Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.

We all have to do things in this life that we don't like.

Find your life perfect and deal with what emerges.

Don't let your life revolve around whatever you're trying not to do or feel. Live to experience, not to avoid.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

I'm trying not to let the anger and the violence that erupt take over my life. I guess it comes with the growing process, I don't know. A little mellowing.

As much as you can in your life, say yes.

Life is a good deal more comfortable if one doesn't expect it to be fair.

I've never contended that I had a really horrible life.

The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable.

I've gotten to the place where I find life too short for if-only.

My idea of life, it's what happens when they're rolling the credits.

I'll let life take me where it will.

When it comes time to die, you will not be afraid. By meditating, you will have already seen beyond life and death and you will see there is nothing to fear.

You have to learn to be very, very gentle to start with - with yourself eventually. Meditation is not something that you force. It is something that happens to you because life gives you a gift.

It is not by change of circumstances, but by fitting our spirits to the circumstances in which God has placed us, that we can be reconciled to life and duty.

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

Yet within our culture, at least for those who determine for us what we are to accept as real, the very existence of this other intelligence, this "something else" that is "interested in us," is difficult to accept. Why should this be so, since every culture from the beginning of recorded time and throughout most of the world, even in our own time, has accepted the existence of other intelligences in the universe?

have discussed already some of the reasons why the reality of the abduction phenomenon has been so difficult for our culture to accept – the material and philosophical vested interests, for example, attached to the Western worldview.

After many years of experience it is our impression that not more then 10 to 15 percent of the population would be willing to accept a psychosomatic diagnosis.

There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.

Asperger's is not a disease. It's a way of being. There is no cure, nor is there a need for one. There is, however, a need for knowledge and adaptation on the part of Aspergian kids and their families and friends.