Quotes About Acceptance

Sex attraction is so purely a question of the taste of the individual that the wise man never argues about it. He accepts its vagaries as part of the human mystery, and leaves it at that.

I will be your wife, Bertie.' There didn't seem much to say to this except 'Oh, thanks.

They're soul mates. She has about as much brain as a retarded billiards ball, and he approximately the same.

What if he does think you the world's premier louse? Don't we all?

Celestine had been born Maggie O'Toole, a name which Mrs. Pett stoutly refused to countenance in any maid of hers.

Half the trouble in the world was caused by people not letting well alone.

I f nothing saves us from death, may love at least save us from life.

I was born anew, owner of my own darkness.

I adore my own lost being, my imperfect substance

Each morning, each turbid morning of your lives you will have it steaming and burning at your tables: so as not to see it, not to digest it so many times: you will push it aside a bit between the bread and the grapes, this bowl of silent blood that will be there each morning, each morning. A

There are no good-byes for my dog who has died, and we don't now and never did lie to each other. So now he's gone and I buried him, and that's all there is to it.

Cuanto te habrá dolido acostumbrarte a mí, a mi alma sola y salvaje, a mi nombre que todos ahuyentan.

How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me. my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running.

the levity of the doomed has no equal.

today is a good day to give no one a hard time about anything, or today is a good day to give everyone a hard time about everything.

Sometimes we kid ourselves when we imagine our lives, expecting that everything will neatly fall into place.

Yet what I truly disliked, in certain gloomy moments and not always consciously, was my skin color itself

Because just as everybody is not meant to be a size 4, we all are meant to be different sizes at different times in our lives we are meant to eat different things at different moments. our needs shift as life shifts.

Choosing to be happy and saying thank you to whatever circumstances befall you is one of the most radical things you could ever do.

Life gives us what we need when we need it; receiving what it gives us is a whole other thing.

I will never regret not having children. What I regret is that I live in a world where in spite of everything, that decision is still not quite okay.

I'm beginning to understand that when we want to kill ourselves, it is not because we are lonely, but because we are trying to break up with the world before the world breaks up with us.

There was something about the prairie for me—it wasn't where I had come from, but when I moved there it just took me in and I knew I couldn't ever stop living under that big sky.

It would take a lifetime to understand another person. We all have complex, nuanced behaviors that make us who we are, or why we are. Acceptance is a better way to go.