Quotes About Acceptance

Things oughtn't to be the way they are, altogether. But letting a madman burn down the barn is no way to improve them.

Love & Marriage are about work & Compromise. They're about seeing someone for what he is, being disappointed and deciding to stick around anyway. They're about commitment and comfort, not some kind of sudden, hysterical recognition.

She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness, yet they could let each other see it without the need of protection.

It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.

Serenity comes from the ability to say "Yes" to existence. Courage comes from the ability to say "No" to the wrong choices made by others.

Our name is Equality 7-2521, as it is written on the iron bracelet which all men wear on their left wrists with their names upon it. We are twenty-one years old. We are six feet tall, and this is a burden, for there are not many men who are six feet tall. Ever have the Teachers and the Leaders pointed to us and frowned and said: There is evil in your bones, Equality 7-2521, for your body has grown beyond the bodies of your brothers. But we cannot change our bones nor our body.

What you feel in the presence of a thing you admire is just one word—'Yes.' The affirmation, the acceptance, the sign of admittance.

It was useless to argue, she thought, and to wonder about people who would neither refute an argument nor accept it.

There is no necessity for pain-why, then, is the worst pain reserved for those who will not accept its necessity?

The only guilt of the victims, he thought, had been that they accepted it as guilt.

That was the real sentence imposed upon him, he thought - to discover what idea, what simple idea available to the simplest man, had made mankind accept the doctrines that led it to self-destruction.

I mean the one that claims the pig is the symbol of love for humanity--the creature that accepts anything. As a matter of fact, the person who loves everybody and feels at home everywhere is the true hater of mankind. He expects nothing of men, so no form of depravity can outrage him.

It was new to feel protected, and to feel that it was right to accept the protection, to surrender - right, because this peculiar sense of safety was...not the protection of being spared from battle, but of having won it, not a protection granted to her weakness, but to her strength....

It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering, I know that pain is to be fought and thrown aside, not to be accepted as part of one's soul and as a permanent scar across one's view of existence.

He realized that when he had been afraid to change he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there. So

He realized that when he had been afraid to change he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there.

Haw said, "Sometimes, Hem, things change and they are never the same again. This looks like one of those times. That's life! Life moves on. And so should we." Haw

As Haw prepared to leave, he started to feel more alive, knowing that he was finally able to laugh at himself, let go and move on. Haw laughed and announced, "It's ... Maze ... time!" Hem

when he was afraid to changed he had been holding on to the illusion of Old Cheese that was no longer there

Avoid Believing Things Are Better Than They Really Are When You Are On A Peak, Or Worse Than They Really Are When You Are In A Valley. Make Reality Your Friend.

He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly—then you can let go and quickly move on.

As Haw prepared to leave, he started to feel more alive, knowing that he was finally able to laugh at himself, let go and move on.

he knew that what made him happy wasn't just having Cheese. He was happy when he wasn't being run by his fear.

In short, a change imposed is a change opposed.