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Quotes About Acceptance

What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.
~ John Milton
I pick my nose and I'm not ashamed to admit it. If there's a bogey then just pick it, man.
~ Justin Timberlake
There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away.
~ Ken Kesey
Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow.
~ Swami Vivekananda
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
~ T. S. Eliot
To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason.
~ Thomas Merton
The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.
~ Victor Hugo
At some point I was a HappyAfricanFeminist who does not hate men. And who likes lip gloss and who wears high heels for herself but not for men.
~ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Men do not settle down. Men surrender.
~ Chris Rock
The wise man looks at death with honesty, dignity and calm, recognizing that the tragedy it brings is inherent in the great gift of life.
~ Corliss Lamont
I surrounded myself with women when I was growing up because I had this horrible psycho father. Now I'm trying to really appreciate and like men more.
~ Courtney Love
Let no man's deathbed be a futon.
~ Demetri Martin
Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the same from every place.
~ Diogenes Laertius
Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.
~ Donald Justice
Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue.
~ Epictetus
The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.
~ Erle Stanley Gardner
Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
~ Euripides
A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.
~ Friedrich Schiller
Nothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.
~ George Santayana
If every man, ...ceased to hate and blame every other man for his own failures and shortcomings, we would see the end of every evil in the world, from war to backbiting.
~ Grace Metalious
Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.
~ Thomas Hobbes
People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat's eye all the souls of the children of men that are driven into heaven by preaching hell-fire.
~ Brigham Young
I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
~ Agnes Smedley