Quotes About Acceptance

Memory says, "I did that." Pride replies, "I could not have done that." Eventually, memory yields. —FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE3

As Ellis Cose famously raged: I have done everything I was supposed to do. I have stayed out of trouble with the law, gone to the right schools, and worked myself nearly to death. What more do they want? Why in God's name won't they accept me as a full human being?

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions," Helen Keller pointed out. "Conclusions are not always pleasant."42

Thus, we are wise to at least consider orientation to authority as one of several factors—including low intelligence, low education, lack of political sophistication, and external threats of specific kinds (for example, economic threat)—predisposing people to accept fascist ideology.

In the particular study reviewed by Blass that focused on religious dispositional variables, those that scored high on many of the religious variables were more accepting of the commands of an authority than were those who scored lower or were indiscriminately antireligious.

I so ill deserve the place his arms make for me.

Better than a sharp stick in the eye.

No one ever gave me an instruction manual on how to be an openly gay man.

He was a gay man who had to leave home to find himself, not a gay man who had found himself within his own home.

They soon learned how difficult and hostile school can be for a child who is different.

What did classes matter when she knew everything taught in them? Not learning made her miserable. She decided that she was the crazy one, that she was too different. It was better to stop trying. She started getting C's on her report cards.

We can live in and from the Nature and these Will accept us. Wij kunnen in en van de natuur leven en deze accepteert ons.

but she'd learned that anger and regret were bitter desserts.

drank, the more his behavior changed, even when he was sober. I confided his increasingly hateful behavior to my priest and my doctor, but they made me feel like I had somehow failed in my duty. They told me to try harder.

I accept the idea of helping men, and of being cherished by them. I've always had that feeling. If I could have my life over I suppose I would have been happiest being someone's second-in-command. Lieutenant to a really great man – that's my idea of happiness.

And she knew she was not sure, she would never be sure, because uncertainty is the essence of the human condition, and death is the one barrier beyond which we cannot see. There is no hope but faith, no knowledge but the acceptance of ignorance. Yet still she hoped that one day she would know.

A peace washed over me when I knew God had marked me as HIS crazy person.

I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him.

Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?

The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!

told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered…

I think it ought not to be set down as certain, that a man must be acceptable to every woman he may happen to like himself.

It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes.