Quotes About Acceptance

Always, you wake up to an unpleasant memory and an unpleasant body and your spirit is reduced to a pile of dirty ashes residing somewhere inside of your ass. You've gotta face the music, which is a beautiful island outside, but you can't even bear to look out the window.

Nothing was working, and my friend was dead, and I didn't want to look at that.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

in those days children were rather out of fashion.

Wisdom is the power to admit that you cannot understand and judge the people in their entirety.

I forgot at the time that this inability to penetrate a room is a particular form of hesitation to be associated with persons in whom an extreme egoism is dominant: the acceptance of someone else's place or dwelling possibly implying some distasteful abnegation of the newcomer's rights or position.

I don't dislike him because he's a Jew,' said Mr. Nunnery. 'One can't dismiss whole races at a time.' 'He's all right.' 'You'd hardly know he was a Jew.' 'Oh, no. Hardly at all.

People can only be themselves,' she said. 'If they possessed the qualities you desire in them, they would be different people.' 'That is what I should like them to be.

IT is not easy—perhaps not even desirable—to judge other people by a consistent standard. Conduct obnoxious, even unbearable, in one person may be readily tolerated in another; apparently indispensable principles of behaviour are in practice relaxed—not always with impunity—in the interests of those whose nature seems to demand an exceptional measure. That

Do you tend to focus more on what you can control or what you can't control?

One of the most important decisions you can make to ensure your long-term happiness is to decide to use whatever life gives you in the moment

as long as we structure our lives in a way where our happiness is dependent upon something we cannot control, then we will experience pain.

As the German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer stated, all truth goes through three steps. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Finally, it is accepted as self-evident.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. —MARK TWAIN

Buddha once said to a man who was insulting and criticizing him, "If someone offers you a gift and you decline to accept it, to whom does it belong?" The man replied, "Then it belongs to the person who offered it." To which Buddha replied, "That is correct.  So if I decline to accept your abuse, does it not then still belong to you?

Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dyin's as natural as livin'; man who's afraid to die is too afraid to live, far as I've ever seen. So there's nothing to do but forget it, that's all. Seems to me

Leave a chimney-sweep alone when you see him, Chiltern. Should he run against you, then remember that it is one of the necessary penalties of clean linen that it is apt to be soiled.

When last days are coming, they should be allowed to come and to glide away without special notice or mention. And as for last moments, there should be none such. Let them ever be ended, even before their presence has been acknowledged.

That was all there was, and that had not been very bad. During

They don't do much good; — do they? It's better to take people as you find 'em, and then make the best of 'em. They're a queer lot; — ain't they, — the sort of people one meets about in the world?

An accepted lover, who deserves to have been accepted, should devote every hour at his command to his mistress.

Then they are to be married?" "I suppose it will come to that. It always does if the man is in earnest. Girls will accept men simply because they think it ill-natured to return the compliment of an offer with a hearty 'No.

that a man should force himself to endure anything that might be sent upon him, not only without outward grumbling, but also without grumbling inwardly.

He was incapable of anticipating to-morrow's griefs.