Quotes About Acceptance

Part of the corrupt charm of big cities is their acceptance of the wacky, weird, and outrageous within business as usual.

the less we fear that foreigners are going to kill us, the less we're interested in them'.

Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally. Death is just one more thing to be embraced.

but one cannot look backward, only forward. What has passed has passed forever.

She was a terrible mother, there was no doubt about it, but she didn't even have the strength to feel guilty.

you walk into a room and your life ends but you keep on living.

If Richard had lived, perhaps... but one cannot look backwards, only forwards. What has passed has passed for ever. What is it Heraclitus says? One Cannot step in the same river twice?' ... 'More or less. I suppose a more accurate way of putting it would be You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

Whatever happens to you, embrace it, the good and the bad equally.

Jackson had never really seen the point of existential angst. If you didn't like something you changed it and if you couldn't change it you sucked it up and soldiered on, one foot after the other. ("Remind me not to come to you for therapy," Julia said.)

He was at that dangerous age when men suddenly notice that they're going to die eventually, inevitably, and there isn't a damn thing they can do about it, but that doesn't stop them from trying, whether it's shagging anything that moves or listening to early Bruce Springsteen and buying a top-of-the-range motorbike (a BMW K 1200 LT usually, thus considerably upping their chances of meeting death even earlier than anticipated).

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

When I was young, I loved black men.

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.

You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

The greatest act of faith takes place when a man finally decides that he is not God.

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.

No man ought to looke a given horse in the mouth.

No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.

At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].

I used to worry about every little thing, trying to figure out every problem. Well, I realize now how foolish that was. I was no more in control of my life than the man on the moon.

The love of your life won't be the man you end up with, and you'll always compare the two.

You cry tears when a man leaves you at any age - it doesn't matter whether you are 20 or 60.

Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

I don't envy men and I certainly wouldn't like to become one now.