Quotes About Acceptance

Men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places.

None of us can be free of conflict and woe. Even the greatest men have had to accept disappointments as their daily bread. ... The art of living lies less in eliminating our troubles than in growing with them.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the i point.

Frankly, I like the fact that I no longer fit the young beauty type-people take me more seriously now.

You start out happy that you have no hips or boobs. All of a sudden you get them, and it feels sloppy. Then just when you start liking them, they start dropping.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.

Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.

Disappointments should be cremated, not embalmed.

Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.

There is no perfection in humanity.

Perfection is out of the question.

He is all fault who hath no fault at all. For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

You're only human, you're supposed to make mistakes.

I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human- I'm uncomfortable around gods.

If the best man's faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.

Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world.

You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.

There are many lovely women, but no perfect ones.

There's one thing about baldness - it's neat.

He is happy that knoweth not himself to be otherwise.

When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.