Quotes About Acceptance

Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.

On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except the fact that they are so...

I also came to see that the price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.

We cannot heal when hate persists.

End discrimination. Hate everybody.

Yoga accepts. Yoga gives.

It's not all about healing yourself — it's just as importantly about letting yourself heal.

The mind spells 'healing' L-E-T G-O.

Don't let misery settle into your heart — welcome only love.

This is a celebration of individual freedom, not of homosexuality. No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love. The only queer people are those who don't love anybody.

— My sexual orientation? Horizontal, usually. — I can't even think straight. — Let's get one thing straight, I'm not. — Straight But Not Narrow — Closets are for clothes. — I'm not a lesbian but my girlfriend is. — I'm not gay but my boyfriend is. — Equal rights are not special rights. — Homophobia is a social disease. — My sexual preference is often.

...there was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

It was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly; while two or three fools more or less would not alter the scheme of things.

Such was the lesson that was quickly borne in upon him. It came hard, going as it did, counter to much that was strong and dominant in his own nature; and, while he disliked it in the learning of it, unknown to himself he was learning to like it. It was a placing of his destiny in another's hands, a shifting of the responsibilities of existence. This in itself was compensation, for it is always easier to lean upon another than to stand alone.

All life likes power, and Beauty Smith was no exception. Denied the expression of power amongst his own kind, he fell back upon the lesser creatures and there vindicated the life that was in him. But Beauty Smith had not created himself, and no blame was to be attached to him. He had come into the world with a twisted body and a brute intelligence. This had constituted the clay of him, and it had not been kindly moulded by the world.

la vida resulta dichosa cuando se toma como viene.

Jis niekada taip nemyl?jo savo k?no kaip dabar, kai jam išlikti buvo taip maža vilties.

He had a method of accepting things, without questioning the why and wherefore. 

He was never disturbed over why a thing happened.  How it happened was sufficient for him. 

He does not lose anything, for with the loss of himself he loses the knowledge of loss.

It was easy. All men must die. He did not complain. It was the way of life, and it was just. He had been born close to the earth, close to the earth had he lived, and the law thereof was not new to him. It was the law of all flesh. Nature was not kindly to the flesh.

Such was the lesson that was quickly borne in upon him. It came hard, going as it did, counter to much that was strong and dominant in his own nature; and, while he disliked it in the learning of it, unknown to himself he was learning to like it. It was a placing of his destiny in another's hands, a shifting of the responsibilities of existence. This in itself was compensation, for it is always easier to lean upon another than to stand alone.

We lost the wild bit by bit for ten thousand years and forgave each loss and then forgot.

Observe! I hold the magic tablet of truth! You are Monster; I am Man. Each is alone; each sees dawn and dusk; each feels pain and pain's ease. Why should one be victor and the other victim? We will never agree; never shall you know gain by the toil of man! Submit to the what-must-be! If you fail to heed, then you must taste a bitter brew and never again walk the sands of dark Sigil.