Quotes About Acceptance

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

Every man finds his limitations, Mr. Holmes, but at least it cures us of the weakness of self-satisfaction.

Let me see—what are my other shortcomings? I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right. What have you to confess now? It's just as well for two fellows to know the worst of one another before they begin to live together.

He was too absurd to make me angry. Indeed, it was a waste of energy, for if you were going to be angry with this man you would be angry all the time.

I fear that if the matter is beyond humanity, it is certainly beyond me.

The world is big enough for us. No ghosts need apply.

better to be a repulsed lover than an accepted brother

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

She could but refuse me, and better be a repulsed lover than an accepted brother.

It is just all the difference between happiness and misery, said Challenger with an abstracted face, still patting his wife's hand. You can swim with the tide and have peace in mind and soul, or you can thrust against it and be bruised and weary. This business is beyond us, so let us accept it as it stands and say no more.

We're an equal-opportunity abuser here. (Syd)

There are some pains that run very deeply, as so that the strongest one accept them without being broken.

It should worry you to walk around naked…with so little to show." – Tristan "I'm in no mood to watch you two play mine's bigger." – Evalle "It's not necessary. I already know which one's bigger." – Tristan "Must be true what they say about the strides they're making with implants." – Storm

Life isn't finding shelter in the storm, or waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.

Any game plan? (Xypher) Don't die. (Sin) I like it. Simple, bold. Impossible. Works for me. (Xypher)

Eh, ca c'est bon. That was life. Some days you ate the rougarou. Some days the rougarou devoured you.

Just that sometimes we let other people treat us wrongly because we want to be loved and accepted so badly that we'd do anything for it. It hurts when you know that no matter how much you try, how much you want it, they can't love or accept you as you are. Then you hate all that time you wasted trying to please them and wonder what about you is so awful that they couldn't at least pretend to love you.

You have room for three more?" M'Adoc asked Sin. "Sure," Sin said. "We can always use more fuel for the pyre." Kish snorted. "For the record, I don't burn well." Xirena ruffled his hair. "Trust me, human, all of you burn well." "That's right," Simi added. "The Simi can ignite most folks and fry them up extra crispy." Kish

I thought we'd be a family always, but sometimes life doesn't work out the way we expect. When it doesn't, we just have to accept it and make the best of things.

I don't care what flaws any of you might have. My job is to advise you if you want to hear it, listen when you need to talk, but most of all to love you, no matter what.

The second step in incarnation is to accept the host culture as a valid, albeit imperfect, way of life. It is useful to remember that culture is basically a set of conceptual tools and social arrangements that people use to adapt to their environment and to order their lives in the pursuit of food, shelter, and family and community relationships.

He'd spent his entire exile schooling himself to face that he would never get what he wanted. People didn't, sometimes. So you made a life as best you could.

Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.

It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you have.