Quotes About Acceptance

A child is not frightened at the thought of being patiently transmuted into an old man.

As I got older, I got into all kinds of things in the streets - but for some reason, I never got caught up with the gangs growing up. Everybody dug me, man. I never had problems.

God's approval is a whole lot easier to get than man's.

Love differs from all the other contagious diseases: the last time a man is exposed to it, he takes it most readily, and has it the worst!

Aren't all these notes the senseless writings of a man who won't accept the fact that there is nothing we can do with suffering except to suffer it?

You don't think it was because a white man wrote it, a black man wrote it, a green man wrote it. What-doesn't make a difference!

When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

Men are egotists, and not all tolerant of one man's selfhood; they do not always deem the amities elective.

The proper direction of man's thought is not toward the creation of new laws for government, but toward the acceptance of every person's moral dignity.

If we can hump dead animals and antelopes, there's no reason that a man and another man can't elope.

When I was a kid, I slept on rubber sheets, but now, I'm a man. And I can take the wetness!

"But to be hanged - is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.

I am an old man who will live until I die," Anselmo said.

Whoever yields properly to Fate, is deemed Wise among men, and knows the laws of heaven.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

The inclination to self-depreciation, to freely accepting being robbed, being duped, and being swindled, could be the modesty of a god among men.

It is in vain to hope to please all alike. Let a man stand with his face in what direction he will, he must necessarily turn his back on one half of the world.

Death is not evil, for it frees man from all ills and takes away his desires along with desire's rewards.

I asked Mother how she endured so many years of goodbyes. She quoted a mountain-man who said, 'Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes.'

You're not going to find a man whose socks don't get dirty or who doesn't snore.

Clergy are men as well as other folks.

The man who is forever disturbed about the condition of humanity either has no problems of his own or has refused to face them.