Quotes About Acceptance

Don't let imperfections or petty differences hinder love. We don't all have to agree on everything in order to create harmony within our own circles. We simply have to respect divergent opinions and recognize the good in the imperfect people we love--which more often then not will outweigh the bad.

But as Colin always reminded her when she raised such questions, trying to understand the mind of God was an exercise in futility. You had to trust in his goodness and accept that he saw the bigger picture, even if your own lens was murky.

Ronald Takaki, an ethnic studies professor at the University of California at Berkeley, once called the Chinese and other Asian Americans "strangers from a different shore." I propose to take this a step further. At various times in history, the Chinese Americans have been treated like strangers on both shores—a people regarded by two nations as too Chinese to be American, and too American to be Chinese.

When does one ever know a human being? Perhaps only after one has realized the impossibility of knowledge and renounced the desire for it and finally ceased to feel even the need of it. But then what one achieves is no longer knowledge, it is simply a kind of co-existence; and this too is one of the guises of love.

Love is no respecter of ages, everyone knows that.

Sometimes one feels suddenly doomed by fate.

Disapproving of things is all right. But you mustn't disapprove of people. It cuts you off.

You can't magic yourself out of the situation, you've got to live it as decently and as grimly as you can.

He can do anything he likes and I'm so lonely, oh so lonely— And I put up with it because there was nothing else to do—

But, and especially with Linda's help, he had decided that, like most other people, he was not made for reality.

Maybe there are times when one should welcome defeat, tell it to come right in and sit down.

She thought sadly, gaiety and laughter are not in my destiny.

Yet it all seemed inevitable and perhaps it was. Is it fruitless to think about the past and build up coherent pictures of how one's life went wrong?

Oh if only only only we could be happy and ordinary like other people.

It had occurred, it had happened , and could never in his life be unhappened, never removed, a huge deadly black scar lasting forever.

We may love our chains and our stripes too.

Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.

I've never had any luck, Brad. I don't even hope for any any more.

How soon we cover up the horror of death and loss, if we can, with almost any sort of explanation, as if we had to justify the very fate which had maimed us.

Oh, all right, perhaps it wasn't all your fault, I was just doomed from the start.

I can see this so clearly because I have long ago given up my own hopes of being happy.

It's terrible that one doesn't love people forever.

The calmness was the final tone of despair.

She could not bear the tenderness which a dog would evoke, she did not want the pain of another love. She knew how very much, how desperately, she would love her dog; and dogs are vulnerable and short-lived and die.