Quotes About Acceptance

Once she exclaimed, "But I always thought that sorceresses were evil!" "What do you mean 'evil'?" Lynet has never considered the question. "You know," she said, after a moment, "unfriendly to people." "People!" repeated Morgana derisively. "As if humans were all that mattered. Just once I'd like to see people judged by how friendly they are to sorceresses.

Ay, you've already seen that you and your master aren't quite at home in this world, at least not like before.' Terence nodded slowly. 'It'll only get stronger, too,' Robin continued. 'Soon you'll find yourself looking into people's eyes to see if they've been there. And once you find someone who has, you'll greet him as a long-lost friend and take him to your heart.

Of course it was still odd, but when everyone does the same odd thing, it seems almost normal.

todos los niños tienen cinco necesidades vitales que son esenciales para su salud emocional: necesitan sentirse respetados, importantes, aceptados, incluidos y seguros.

the surfeit of loss in my life has convinced me it will be easier to be grieved for than to grieve." Bethia as an old woman about to die p 257

I don't see her anymore. We don't even go through the motions. Ozren had been right about one thing: some stories just don't have happy endings.

I cannot say that I have faith anymore. Hope, perhaps. We have agreed that it will do for now.

We cannot know the future, nor can we change it,...It is best to be realistic about such things. But we have the time we have been given. So let us treasure it while we can.

It is one thing to know what is to come. It is another thing to confront it.

Tolerance is a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbours of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

After a year of therapy, my psychiatrist said to me, "Maybe life isn't for everyone."

It were better to be of no church, than to be bitter for any.

Send these, the homeless, tempest toss'd, to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

We live in what is, but we find 1,000 ways not to face it. Great theatre strengthens our faculty to face it.

If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another, and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

Choose to be a love-finder rather than a faultfinder.

I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?

My sister says she never seems to get it together . . . either her rear looks good or her face does.

It's not wrinkles. I just have too much skin for the size of my face.

At the end of what is called the 'sexual life' the only love which has lasted is the love which has everything, every disappointment, every failure and every betrayal, which has accepted even the sad fact that in the end there is no desire so deep as the simple desire for companionship.

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; not dread your last day, not long for it.