Quotes About Acceptance

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe; you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

So long as man resists a situation, he will have it with him.

Men of this world all rejoice in others being like themselves, and object to others not being like themselves.

Even the severed branch grows again, and the sunken moon returns: wise men who ponder this are not troubled in adversity.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

The living all find death unpleasant; men mourn over it. And yet, what is death, but the unbending of the bow and its return to its case?

It is infinitely easier to suffer in obedience to a human command than to accept suffering as free, responsible men.

Christianity is the best way to cure gayness — just get on your knees, take a swig of wine, and accept the body of a man into your mouth.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

If the Muslims keep their heads cool and accept progress as a means and not an end in itself, they may pass on to Western man the lost secret of life's sweetness.

And thus we rust Life's iron chain Degraded and alone: And some men curse, and some men weep, And some men make no moan: But God's eternal Laws are kind And break the heart of stone

It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed.

I don't think it's meant for man to know everything at once.

It makes you feel good, man, makes you forget all the bad things that happen to a Negro. It makes you feel wanted, and when you're with another tea smoker, it makes you feel a special kinship.

I am proud to say that I am a fortunate homosexual man. I am very blessed to be who I am.

Kill if you must, but never hate: Man is but grass and hate is blight, The sun will scorch you soon or late, Die wholesome then, since you must fight

A man thinking with the core of his heart is always willing to change to accept his mistakes while others just crib and duck the mistakes to find fault with others only.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

The man who is intoxicated with life does not pass judgment, does not seek to come to a conclusion, does not impose his message on the world.

You've always had me ... and my heart. My soul. Everything. I wish it hadn't taken this long for me to man up.

Each of us has a day .. when he has to accept, finally, the fact that he is a man.

...the man of my dreams is a girl.