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Quotes About Acceptance

A man cannot spend his life worrying about the unexpected.
~ David Gemmell
You cannot avoid mortality. But you can choose your way of meeting it. And that is the most that any man can hope for.
~ David Gerrold
Not all animal brides are doomed. Not all men are greedy or violent or possessive.
~ Delia Sherman
Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him', I wrote with more confidence. 'It can't be done. More important-don't let him try to change you.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Men go where they will, they do as they must; it is not a woman's part to bid them to stay, nor yet to reproach them for being what they are-or for not coming back.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Mirrors at the gym only serve to remind me that I'm less of a man than I'd like to be.
~ Dov Davidoff
When a man dies, and his kin are glad of it, they say, "He is better off."
~ E. W. Howe
The happy man is he who turns his soul Unto the light of joys that he can find; And pays each day its just demand of toll, But shuts the future troubles from his mind.
~ Edgar Guest
Beast?" Jane murmured. "Then God make me a beast; for, man or beast, I am yours.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
The critic's first labor is the task of distinguishing between men, as history and their works display them, and the ideals which one and another have conspired to urge upon his acceptance.
~ Edmund Clarence Stedman
Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.
~ Eileen Wilks
Holy Moses, let us live in peace. Let us strive to find a way to make all hatred cease. There's a man over there, what's his colour I don't care, he's my brother, let us live in peace.
~ Elton John
The Things that never can come back, are several- Childhood-some forms of Hope-the Dead- Though Joys-like Men-may sometimes make a Journey- And still abide-.
~ Emily Dickinson
God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: "I am what I am not.
~ Eric Hoffer
A low capacity for getting along with those near us often goes hand in hand with a high receptivity to the idea of the brotherhood of men.
~ Eric Hoffer
can't blame a man for being human when human is all he'll ever be!
~ Eric Jerome Dickey
What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
~ Euripides
Account no man happy till he dies.
~ Euripides
Let mortal man keep to his own Mortality, and not expect too much.
~ Euripides
No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world.
~ Fannie Flagg
As I've gotten older, I've found that I can have men as friends. I used to not be able to.
~ Farrah Fawcett
There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
At the heart of the matter of masculine excess is a great longing for the love and approval of a father, a man who can tell another man that his masculinity is splendid enough and he can now relax.
~ Frank Pittman