Quotes About Acceptance

We're broken. It's like we have all these jagged edges that scare other people off, but when we're with each other, our jagged edges fit together and we're almost whole.

If Madonna loves me, then you will too.

Human beings do not like to look squarely into the face of tragedy. Gloom is unpopular.

Once you accept your own death, all of a sudden you're free to live. You no longer care about your reputation. You no longer care except so far as your life can be used tactically to promote a cause you believe in.

We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.

Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability.

You regard yourself as tolerant, and in that one adjective you most fittingly describe yourself. You really don't like people you tolerate them. You are very tolerant, MR. BUT.

Dostoevski said that taking a new step is what people fear the most. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future. This acceptance is the reformation essential to any revolution.

A yogi has no preferences. There's no point in hurrying. The only thing that matters is for me to watch whatever is happening, good or bad.

In every human heart is a place where you put all your broken dreams. When something doesn't work out, no matter what it may be, you just have to give it up and stuff it in with your broken dreams. And make sure you keep the lid on tight.

In every human heart is a place where you put your broken dreams. When something doesn't work out, no matter what it may be, you just have to give it up and stuff it in with your broken dreams. And make sure you keep the lid on tight.

Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe. Usually nothing has obviously triggered it and I put it down to some combination of an unhappy childhood and bad dreams (those two things go very well together).

One rabbit has a label on its are, another one doesn't. You can love the one with the label and everyone accepts that. Risk your life for a real animal and people say you're mad.

It gets easier when you've met and dealt with your own grief. It gets easier, but it'll probably never be easy.

Deal with death every day of my life... in one way or another. You can never tell when it's going to bring you undone.

Such practices were the way to "get along," the way to belong, the way to move up in society, and the way to be "in" for that culture and time. It required daily exercise in resistance not to go along.

Not only that, Jesus finds all the "wrong" people on God's side and all the "right" people against God.

The church God wants is one brimming with difference,

We're not freaks, Tally. We're normal. We may not be gorgeous, but at least we're not hyped-up Barbie dolls.

The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don't mind. It is futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone who is capable of significant change; that sort of person exists only in our imaginations.

If you spend all your time arguing with people who are nuts, you'll be exhausted and the nuts will still be nuts.