Quotes About Acceptance

One weekend Jobs was visiting Wayne at his apartment, engaging as they often did in philosophical discussions, when Wayne said that there was something he needed to tell him. "Yeah, I think I know what it is," Jobs replied. "I think you like men." Wayne said yes. "It was my first encounter with someone who I knew was gay," Jobs recalled.

Leonardo fell into that category. He was born out of wedlock, gay, left-handed, a vegetarian, and was easily distracted, and that helped instill a sense of wonder at how he fit into this world.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

Jobs's obstinacy lasted for nine months after his October 2003 diagnosis. Part of it was the product of the dark side of his reality distortion field. "I think Steve has such a strong desire for the world to be a certain way that he wills it to be that way," Levinson speculated. "Sometimes it doesn't work. Reality is unforgiving.

simply enjoy giving more than receiving in every respect, do not take myself nor the doings of the masses seriously, am not ashamed of my weaknesses and vices, and naturally take things as they come with equanimity and humor.

Upon the whole, I am much disposed to like the world as I find it, and to doubt my own judgment as to what would mend it.

The most acceptable service to God is doing good to man.

No sean tan severos conmigo —les respondió a los Born—. Todo el mundo debe, de vez en cuando, hacer un sacrificio ante el altar de la estupidez, a fin de agradar al dios de la humanidad. Y yo lo he hecho a fondo con mi artículo.

One can oppose the shallow optimism of so many Western thinkers and yet refuse to negate life.

You can't fight with death, all you can do is stand your ground and hope that the foundation don't fall out from under you.

The great man say that life is pain," Coydog had said over eighty-five years before. "That mean if you love life, then you love the hurt come along wit' it. Now, if that ain't the blues, I don't know what is.

Of course, I always knew that there was no real difference between the races, but still, it was nice to see an example of that equality.

It's like a door open at the side of the house and this cool breeze is blowing in over the back of my neck. The breeze is Death whispering and that door is open for me to go through anytime I want. And I want to go through. I want the confusion to stop--no, not only confusion but pain too.

I always keep thinkin' that maybe I could find a place where you nevah have to get mad, and then I'd be cool. My daddy told me before he died that that place was called Dead .

He made me question what was, when for a whole lifetime up till that moment, I accepted the world's excuses.

Some people born to be fat.

He once told me that they'd have to wake him for his execution because "the Mouse ain't gonna miss his rest.

It is better to enjoy the good which God sends thee, than to be impertinently curious how it comes.

and that which is done of goodwill must, to my thinking, be accepted favourably. Had

and that which is done of goodwill must, to my thinking, be accepted favourably. Had it been otherwise, methinks they had ere now been enlightened to do better.

God gave people tear ducts for a good reason, and folks shouldn't be too stubborn to use them.

Since you can't change the past, you may as well make the best of the present.

Things don't always go the way we want. I've come to realize that some things just aren't meant to be.

Straight people are so fucking weird.