Quotes About Acceptance

The best you can do is keep yourself from brooding about it.

The ubiquitous feature of human psychology is a process known as adaptation . Simply put, we used get to things and then we start to take them for granted.

This motivation was at work in both Christian and non-Christian circles. We know this because ancient authors actually tell us so. For example, a commentator on the writings of Aristotle, a pagan scholar named David, indicated: "If someone is uninfluential and unknown, yet wants his writing to be read, he writes in the name of someone who came before him and was influential, so that through his influence he can get his work accepted.

If you get fired from your job, that's outside your control, so you shouldn't be personally invested in your job.

It is the sorrowful penitent who is acceptable; that is the kind of woman these texts seek. One can't help but think that the men who relish this recollection of Mary the penitent sinner are those who are trying to inform their own world with their own vision of what sexual and gendered relationships ought to be, with women not enticing men with the dangers of sex but falling at their feet in humble submission and penitence.

Because of the open nature of polytheism, there was virtually no such thing as "conversion." Anyone who chose to begin worshiping a new god was welcome to do so and was not required or expected to leave behind any previous practices of worship or make an exclusive commitment to this one deity.

Always accept all compliments. Ignore any other remarks."     —Kay Oss

there's no sense worrying about what you can't control. Doing that is a good way to go crazy.

No,' he said. 'I don't think anyone dies happy...but you could die well.

I don't want your apology, least of all for being afraid," he said. "Without fear, what would we be? Mad dogs with foam on our muzzles and shit drying on our hocks.

Grief is like a drunken houseguest, always coming back for one more goodbye hug.

And what do you do when you can't use anger to fall back on? You admit the truth.

It took me twenty years of living with my father to accept the idea that being good could be good enough. You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think - I did - that God put you on earth to blow your father away.

It's hard to let go. Even when what you're holding onto is full of thorns

Then that's all right, isn't it?

You could get used to anything if you had to. She knew that now.

if you try to outrun your own shadow, you're bound to fall on your face.

You can't have everything, she thinks; into every life a little poop must fall. But sometimes you do get what you need. Which is really all a sane person can ask for.

Ellie wept for the very intractability of death, its imperviousness to argument.

I must accept those things over which I have no control. I must turn my adversities into advantages.

Because—dig it—when it comes to death, what can you do but laugh?

I thought of asking her if it freaked her out to look up at night and see the stars and know they go on forever and ever, but didn't bother. I just said no. You get used to marvelous things. You take them for granted. You can try not to, but you do. There's too much wonder, that's all. It's everywhere.

Forty seemed about right, and it occurred to me that it's too bad for a fella to die at forty, a real shame. It's a man's most anonymous age.

The world is hard and you can't have everything.