Quotes About Acceptance

I am not perfect, far from it, but there is no furnace of death inside me.

You're after perfection,'Matt said. 'Is that so awful?' 'No, it's not, but if you aim for perfection, you've got to be ready to take the consequences of not getting it and one of those is ending up with no one.

Once you've thrown your pilot chute, you're done. It's out of your hands. From that moment on you just enjoy the view or panic.

See, I do have a future to give her after all, just not one that includes me.

She's different from the girls I'm used to dating. She doesn't get tired of my stories and jokes or expect me to start reading her mind. She doesn't want me to dress better or put highlights in my hair or serious up. I'm not a lifestyle accessory to her. I'm a necessity. I'm the guy that's going to crack open her cocoon. She doesn't need to change me - she needs me to change her. At least until her little butterfly wings get strong enough to fly away.

This looks interesting," I say, but what I'm really thinking is, Wow, Aimee, science fiction? Really, could you try any harder to brand yourself with the mark of the nerd herd? What's next, anime?

Life is made out of Thursday afternoons. You just keep having them one after the other and let everything else take care of itself.

Just wait. Someone's going to come along, someone you never expected, someone who needs you because you're you.

No,' I say l. 'It's not all right. But I couldn't help it

That's all right," she says, and I have to wonder how many times she's said that to the people in her life who screwed her over somehow.

We all know what a snooze perfection can be.

Embrace the weird. Enjoy it because it's never going away.

As much as I hated my mockery of a life, it was the only mockery I had, and I didn't particularly want to lose it. There

They might not love Big Brother, but they knew he was part of the family now.

The idea of an essential difference between Greek culture and those of the Ancient Near East is not as widely accepted as it once was, and the idea that any such difference should be defined in terms of "freedom" looks uncomfortably close to Western propagandizing. Greek

Sadness is never bad," said Amparo. "Sadness is the mirror of being happy

I was in my thirties before I learnt that I too would prefer not to see what I could no longer have

The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down. This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened.

Some things are worse than death... If a man lives, he must still live with himself.

Not everything that is faced can be changed," Baldwin instructs, "but nothing can be changed until it is faced."24

Indiana embraced him, even after news of his assault had made its way into the state.

You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it. It's that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase that I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: accept.

Fighting emotions is like flailing in quicksand—it only makes things worse. Sometimes, the most proactive "defense" is a mental nod and wink.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.