Quotes About Acceptance

Death is not the worst thing," the kindly man replied. "It is His gift to us, an end to want and pain.

I wait with sullen resignation," said Tuf, unmoving.

Winter comes for all of us, Catelyn thought. For me, it came when Ned died. It will come for you too, child, and sooner than you like. She did not have the heart to say it.

The old wounds never heal.

In this world, a man must learn to seize whatever gifts the gods chose to send him. That was a lesson I learned at some cost. I offer it to you as a sign of my good faith.

Your people will not love you if you take from them the gods they have always worshiped, and give them one whose very name sounds queer on their tongues.

Then I am not a dwarf. My father will rejoice to hear it.

And how do I do that? the old man wondered. Once I might have silenced him forever, but now …

There were times—not many, but a few—when Jon Snow was glad he was a bastard.

Everybody that was anybody had a stained skin. A girl without one was avoided by the young men; a young man without one was at a decided disadvantage, economically and socially. A white face became startlingly rare. America was definitely, enthusiastically mulatto-minded.

Like most men with a vision, a plan, a program or a remedy, he fondly imagined people to be intelligent enough to accept a good thing when it was offered to them, which was conclusive evidence that he knew little about the human race.

There was no other alternative than to seek his future among the Caucasians with whom he now rightfully belonged.

but hardly a customer had crossed her threshold in a fortnight, except two or three Jewish girls from downtown who came up regularly to have their hair straightened because it wouldn't stand inspection in the Nordic world.

Let us accept truth, even when it surprises us and alters our views.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

Immodest creature, you do not want a woman who will accept your faults, you want the one who pretends you are faultless – one who will caress the hand that strikes her and kiss the lips that lie to her." (Letter, 17 June 1837)

Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it.

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it.

Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own finitude, and his finitude is, in one sense, overcome.

All living souls welcome whatsoever they are ready to cope with all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible.

Love yourself! It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out!

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

All living souls welcome whatever they are ready to cope with; all else they ignore, or pronounce to be monstrous and wrong, or deny to be possible