Quotes About Acceptance

We can't plan life.All we can do is be available for it.

You...you loved her, didn't you, Pa?" Theodore sighed, and kept staring at the horses' rumps. "Oh, I loved her, all right," he answered. "A man sometimes can't help lovin' a woman, even if she's the wrong one.

A man does what must be done,' Karl said, trying to concentrate on his board-making. "But you never complain." 'What good would complaining do? A job takes so many hours of work, complaining will not shorten those hours.

The world's not perfect, tomboy. Sometimes we have fires and fistfights and lose friends.

Many of the men brought aboard suffered from "shell shock," or "combat fatigue," as it is called in this war. But call it what you like, we did not have to be psychiatrists to realize that the human mind can look at one scene just so long, can absorb meaning and reality to just a certain point. With these men that point had been passed. Their minds had refused to accept the pictures which their senses presented;

We don't want you here living with us. You are white, and we do not trust you. You must take your family and go." I could hear the sudden intake of breath. every head in the crowd swiveled, first to the Nkosi, and then to me. I suddenly felt tired. This is what it had all come to;in South Africa, when logic shrivels, the same dreary dinosaurs rear their vicious heads.

You know, it was a revelation to me to learn that I don't have to be comfortable. Nowhere is it written that I must be comfortable. I always thought if I felt nervous or anxious or unhappy I had to do something about it. But I learned that's not true. Bad feelings won't kill me. Alcohol will kill me, but my feelings won't.

Fuck you! I hope you die!" "Everybody Dies," I said. "So fuck you.

As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don't have to give a rat's ass about.

You know, it was a revelation to me to learn that I don't have to be comfortable. Nowhere is it written that I must be comfortable. I always thought if I felt nervous or anxious or unhappy I had to do something about it. But I learned that's not true. Bad feelings won't kill me. Alcohol will kill me, but my feelings won't.

If you don't like it, alter it, and if you can't alter it, put up with it.

No form of love is wrong, so long as it is love.

Love has an extraordinary variety of forms! And that is all that there is in life, it seems to me. But I grant you, if you deny the VARIETY of love you deny love altogether. If you try to specialize love into one set of accepted feelings, you wound the very soul of love. Love MUST be multiform, else it is just tyranny, just death.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

One nuclear war is going to be the last nuclear - the last war, frankly, if it really gets out of hand. And I just don't think we ought to be prepared to accept that sort of thing.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.

En cualquier caso, Kuhn insistió en que «la decisión de rechazar un paradigma es siempre simultánea a la decisión de aceptar otro, y el pensamiento o juicio que conduce a esa decisión implica la comparación de ambos paradigmas con el mundo circundante y entre ellos».

The problem that will doubtless interest future historians is not so much the presence, in the twentieth century, of mass political alienation, but the passivity with which the citizenry accepted that condition. It may well become known as the century of sophisticated deference.

I had learned that there were times when fighting was impossible, when the best thing to do was to wait and to learn.

She asked why I was so black. I asked why she was so white. She said she was born that way. Same here, I replied.

Feelings aren't supposed to be rational. If we stop judging fears as invalid, we can find a deeper empathy.

You must protect people who have no social clout because the health of a congregation is measured by its ability to tolerate dweebs.

Reality doesn't owe us comfort.