Quotes About Acceptance

Not that I want to go, of course. I'll be like the rest of you, clinging on desperately and screaming for more morphine.

Once you're in the circus you're all in the circus, and of course it turns out that they are real people too.

One day the sun will die, one day the galaxy will die, one day the entire Universe will die. I'm not feeling too good myself. So, what have I learned over my long and weird life? Well, firstly, that there are two kinds of people, and I don't much care for either of them. Secondly, when faced with a difficult choice, either way is often best. Thirdly, always leave a party when people begin to play the bongos.

no expectations, no disappointments!

We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.

can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!

i can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever!

Slowly, he walked up the path with the dog and opened the door. Everything in the cottage was as it had been before – his mother getting the evening meal ready, his father brooding in front of the fire, as he did for hours these days since there was no work. "She's… she's come home again,'' Joe said.

He pried your fingers loose from any rock of comfort you clung to in the treacherous waters of human life and laughed if you drowned. Instead of a beatific smile, Roshi offered a sarcastic smirk.

A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women are not content to be the sort of beings that God has made them, but try to persuade themselves that they are really beings of some different kind.

If you are unclear about your ethnicity, you will find yourself confused over what about you needs redeeming.

Our separation from God is so embedded that our dysfunction has become the new normal.

Mental illness is the last frontier. The gay thing is part of everyday life now on a show like 'Modern Family ' but mental illness is still full of stigma. Maybe it is time for that to change.

He could appreciate the value in something, even if he ultimately rejected that something—and could see the errors and flaws in something, even if he ultimately accepted that something.

you have learned from him to honor the will of God in everything God gives and in everything God takes away.

Christians do not wish to escape repentance, or chaos, if it is God's will to bring it upon us. We must take this judgement as Christians." Christians

Peace is the opposite of security.

Every culture and era flatters itself that we are finally seeing what previous eras and cultures could not see because of their own blinders and ideological lenses. To admit that we are in some sense no different from tenth-century peasants is unacceptable to most of us. It may be offensive. To accept it may take real courage.

Luther was the unwitting harbinger of a new world in which the well-established boundaries of what was acceptable were exploded, never to be restored. Suddenly the individual had not only the freedom and possibility of thinking for himself but the weighty responsibility before God of doing so.

we've gone all the way from foolishly accepting authority to foolishly rejecting all authority.

We adopted the view that our job was to find a synthesis between our vision and what customers would accept; it wasn't to capitulate to what customers thought they wanted or to tell customers what they ought to want.

We are all victims of our lives. Some of us accept our circumstances better than others. Some rot from the inside out until every word they speak drips with sourness or venom. I suppose that

And there's a lot I need to let go of. But it's so much easier playing a game than living a life.

After we hung up, I took the joint. If I was going to die here, in the creepy basement out of a horror movie, in an epic snowstorm that was like an icy prison, with a wife unwilling to pretend-like Bananarama to maybe save her husband's life, I should at least go out with a smile on my face.