Quotes About Acceptance

After the way you accepted the mission, I know I can't convince you otherwise. So, instead ... come back alive. We'll be here ... waiting for you to come back.

Even if we are different from each other, as long as I can be with her and create happiness for two people with her, then that's enough for me.

Whether you understand it or don't understand . . . whether you accept it or not . . . what is, is. That's all there is to it.

Vi è felicità per chi accetta il proprio destino, vi è gloria per chi combatte il proprio destino!

We were children whose only sin was our very existence.

One night, on the phone with him, in the car on the way back from the grocery store, I broke down crying and said, "I'm a terrible wife. I'm not a good person. I'm as bad as everyone says." He said, "Don't flatter yourself. You're no better and no worse than anyone else.

Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.

I have put my arm down forever to interrupt the men who want more hair. from the poem Pasadena collected in Own Face (1978)

One may be outside the church, but one can never be outside of God's love.

There are no quick fixes for the fundamental problems of life.

But do you know what? Gravity doesn't care! It will always pull things down, and I may as well plan on it.

You know why the gods made people in different colors? No, why Kate asked. Too boring, everybody looking the same. The gods didn't want us to get bored.

There comes an age in life when you realize that blaming and regretting are a waste of precious time.

A yellow leaf fluttered down from overhead and settled in his lap, a clear, almost transparent yellow against the brownness of the robe. He moved to brush it off and then he let it stay. For who am I, he thought, to interfere with or dispute even such a simple thing as the falling of a leaf. He

He had given them everything that a human being had with the one exception of that most important thing of all -- the ability to exist within the human world.

Is there any good news?' Tesla said. Who ever promised that? Who ever said there'd be good news?

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.

Midian is where the monsters go.

We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring.

I think babies cry when they're born because they're born with the knowledge of all the terrible shit that's gonna happen to them. That's why I never had kids. Every life is a death sentence. We just forget it later in life, like dreams we lose the second we wake up. Whether we worry about it or not, the shit's still going to fly. The important thing is we're here. At least for now.

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful. Is that a famous saying? Maybe if I say it often enough.

I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.

Love makes its demands, and you listen. You can't bargain with it. You can't fight it. Not if it's really love.

which should teach you something about this world. That it's a place where whatever you work for and care about is bound to be taken away from you sooner or later, and there isn't a thing you can do about it.