Quotes About Acceptance

solution to the situation; there was every possibility that it might also reflect Batista's wishes. He had quickly accepted the proposal—with one important proviso. He argued that it would be an act of good faith on the part of the Cuban government to allow the passengers

Trust a nitwit society like this one to think that there are only two categories - fag and straight.

I'm not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don't. Move on and move out.

Ein ehrlicher Mann mag stecken, in welchem Kleide er will, man muss ihn lieben.

Mother always says that when things seem to be in a tangle to us it's just that God is executing an especially intricate and marvelous pattern in our lives, and we must be pliable in His hands, so as not to hinder. Lord, have Thy way with me today!

instead of seething with indignation over injustice, one must expect to take it for granted, and leave with God the responsibility of doing away with it.

Thy will, not ours, be done.

The trouble is we can't see the plan, and so we go fretting because it doesn't fit our ideas.

She saw hopelessness as an old enemy, as persistent and inevitable as death.

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.

Let her live in the air,' said Peter. 'I bet you do. Let her love her body.' 'Let her,' said Anna sadly.

Thanks to J. K. Rowling's post-Deathly Hallows media existence, I'd like to add another quip to the pile of Potter wisdom: Don't ever trust half-baked gay characters.

God, how much easier it would be, I felt, if coming out were something that just happened to me . For queerness to seek me out, and not the other way around. To be a passive observer in my personal journey than to participate in my own life.

There was a Gracia I barely knew existed: fearful Gracia, selfish Gracia, bitter Gracia, angry-at-God Gracia. That wasn't the only me, but it was a bigger part of me than I wanted to accept.

We are all of us resigned to death: it's life we aren't resigned to.

Failure too is a form of death.

We forget very easily what gives us pain.

Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn't we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that's why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding.

if evidence supports established theories then that evidence will be accepted. But if evidence undermines established theories, then that evidence must be rejected.

The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven.

But it's like life, isn't it? We know death is coming. And yet we always see our loved ones as taken away from us, instead of given to us for whatever time they have.

That was my first real experience at feeling set apart. Not only did I not knock them dead, but rather it was I that died...acutely aware of being mutton dressed up as lamb. I exchanged my white tie and tails for a white waiter's jacket and got back to my proper calling!

You fuss too much over making the "right" choice Gaius. All we need do is make a good choice, see it through, and accept the consequences.

There is no shame in ignorance, only in denying it. By knowing what we do not know, we can take steps to remedy our lack of knowledge