Quotes About Acceptance

Pomposity and indignation grow in old age, like nostril hairs and earlobes.

I had an honest, ordered, respectable and unexciting life to look forward to. I had sown my wild oats and it was time to grow sage. Or so I imagined.

Since my earliest years I felt nothing but shame for the useless casing of flesh I inhabit.

The class erupted into noisy laughter and, since I was always, and have always been, determined that merriment should never be seen to be at my expense, I joined in and accepted my star with as much pleased dignity as I could muster.

You see?" said Prometheus. "It is your fate to be Heracles the hero, burdened with labors, yet it is also your choice. You choose to submit to it. Such is the paradox of living. We willingly accept that we have no will.

Bij onze geboorte ligt ons lot al vast, en niemand heeft ooit het zijne kunnen ontlopen (Hektor)

We're from where we're from," she says back. "Scars are part of the deal, aren't they?

What he didn't say was that you don't get cold-resistant because your jackets suck, you just stop complaining about it after a while, because complaining doesn't make you any warmer.

And, if I'm to be honest here, yes, I did indeed stop trying, finally. But the body breathes whether you want it to or not. The heart keeps beating. Perhaps because it knows more than you do--knows that, past this experience, a whole new life will open up, and whatever infirmities persist, they can be dealt with one by one.

If you're not a beautiful monster, then you're a villager

Gay and Lesbian Canadians are entitled to equal treatment under law and are part of Canada's diversity.

When you are faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realise that there are lots of things you want to do before your life is over.

One has to be grown up enough to realize that life is not fair. You just have to do the best you can in the situation you are in.

I have had a full and satisfying life. I believe that disabled people should concentrate on things that their handicap doesn't precent them from doing and not regret those they can't do.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck

It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining. - Stephen Hawking

You can't afford to be disabled in spirit as well as physically. People won't have time for you.

Newton sangat khawatir dengan tiadanya posisi mutlak atau yang disebut ruang mutlak (absolute space), karena tidak cocok dengan gagasannya mengenai Tuhan yang mutlak. Dia malah menolak menerima ketiadaan ruang mutlak, walau hukumnya sendiri menyatakan demikian.

That is what it's about—being a child of God. Ethnicity (no Jew or Greek), class (no slave or free), and gender (no male and female) count neither for you nor against you. We are all children of God.

The only way love can last a lifetime is if it's unconditional. The truth is this: love is not determined by the one being loved but rather by the one choosing to love.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.