Quotes About Acceptance

In their sexual play they suffer others, allow them to be as they are. Suffering others, they open themselves. Open, they learn both about others and about themselves. Learning, they grow. What they learn is not about sexuality, but how to be more concretely and originally themselves, to be the geniuses of their own actions, to be whole.

Many people feel like they were born into the wrong family. Nevertheless, adults must take responsiblity for the pain of the past and create a productive life in the present.

They turned to Angel. "We will call you Little One," the leader said, obviously deciding to dispense with the whole confusing name thing. "Okay," said Angel agreeably. "I'll call you Guy in a White Lab Coat." He frowned. "That can be his Indian name," I suggested.

He's gonna be fine," I confirmed. Can we see him?" Iggy asked. Ig, I hate to break it to you, but you're blind.

Like the sky opens after a rainy day we must open to ourselves.... Learn to love yourself for who you are and open so the world can see you shine.

In a competitive society, the thing people fear the most is love.

She made no point of concealing the truth, for the truth was all she could bear now.

I don't think of people as queer or straight," the Doc said. "Not when you're as old as I. And I don't think God does either." "I didn't know you believed in God, Doc," Vance said.

I don't think I'd like it if people liked me, I'd think that something had gone wrong.

The eleventh commandment: Thou shalt be tolerant of all paths that lead to God.

If a public figure is willing to accept things as they are, he will avoid being loved or hated very much, and he will die in his bed of old age--if he hasn't had the decency to put an earlier end to his life by committing suicide.

Es pura arrogancia de nuestra parte tratar de juzgar la conducta de otros pueblos. Debemos adoptar una actitud de tolerancia hacia las prácticas de otras culturas.

We don't have to be anywhere. The party we left and the one we were headed to are probably over.

Loving yourself is about as likely as tickling yourself.

Bitterness is a greater failure than failure

Mitchell and Jessen were advocating torture tactics that had been originally designed to break men and force them to spout lies and propaganda, but they claimed that these techniques were not torture, and that they would elicit the truth, not lies and propaganda. In the upside-down world of the global war on terror, their explanations were widely accepted.

Too early…too late. A last message to live in the present. To accept the past and not rush the future.

How does one find peace outside the bounds of the Church?" "Acceptance and mindfulness

it sucks to get old...but there's always beer

There is no good arguing with the inevitible. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Closure is for jars, books, and closet doors.

memory will cut you off at the knees if you let it.

All stories are ghost stories, about things lost, people, memories, home, passion, youth, about things struggling to be seen, to be accepted by the living.