Quotes About Acceptance

My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.

I've worked so hard to eliminate the inner geek from my life. I suddenly realize I have no patience for those people who still have their geeks showing. Now I see why being 'normal' has been so important to me.

Responsibility cannot be assigned; it can only be accepted. If someone tries to give you responsibility, only you can decide if you are responsible or if you aren't.

Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.

I don't imagine I'll ever get over missing him, Raymond said. Some things you don't get over. I believe this'll be one of them.

You can't fix things, can you, Louis said. We always want to. But we can't.

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

Lon had lost another West Point friend and comrade-in-arms. The war seemed far from resolution, and the humiliations of the most recent battle made the deaths of the noble Dimick and Kirby difficult to accept.

We do not wish to destroy your religion, or to take it from you. We only want to enjoy our own ." — Chief Red Jacket, 1805

It all comes out in the wash. It's just the spin cycle that makes you crazy

Phil didn't know he was dead until he read it in the paper. All things considered, he took it rather well.

I presume that it is the better part of wisdom that we bow to our fate with as good grace as possible.

A small town is a place where there is no place to go where you shouldn't.

Ode I.11 Leucon, no one's allowed to know his fate, Not you, not me: don't ask, don't hunt for answers In tea leaves or palms. Be patient with whatever comes. This could be our last winter, it could be many More, pounding the Tuscan Sea on these rocks: Do what you must, be wise, cut your vines And forget about hope. Time goes running, even As we talk. Take the present, the future's no one's affair

I'm not concerned about anything anymore. It's kind of in the shadows. There's been a sea change on all of that. Things that I felt passionately about, I just don't anymore. I think that goes ... I think that goes with just being older and having had the privilege of having a full and active life, and now just fading, fading--fading away, like General MacArthur said.

I think we all agree, the past is over.

You can get used to anything, I guess, if you've been there enough.

I thought that if I gave everything I had inside to the people I loved, I would perhaps be able to prove I wasn't a bad person. The truth was that I really wasn't a bad person. And I didn't need to dedicate my life to defining the kind of person that I was.

My mother knew Allah accepted late namaazes the way teachers accepted late homework: begrudgingly, but glad we'd put in the effort.

After 'Freaks and Geeks ' I dealt with several producers who wanted to cover up all my beauty marks, every single mole on my body. They tried to cover them on my first two episodes of 'Dawson's Creek ' and it just looked ridiculous, so I had to put my foot down. But it's not something I'm insecure about.

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

'Tis better to have loved and lost, than never to have lost at all.

One of the first businesses of a sensible man is to know when he is beaten, and to leave off fighting at once.

The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications.