Quotes About Acceptance

Now the end is going to come - in one fashion or another, Bines said, softly, and again he turned to Ralphie and smiled. We all know, the end will come. You either face your hunters or run from them.

You do not understand -- no accomplishment overcomes the stigma of being different. [...] I try not to think about it and cannot eat my supper or nothing. I didn't understand it at first. But now I do. You are not different in the way difference is acceptable but in another, bigger way.

I understand some of the committee people, despite their official positions, are not very friendly toward gays and lesbians.

If it keeps the streets safe, people will accept it.

It is a tricky business to know when you should set goals and objectives in order to achieve a focus, and when you would be better off dealing with the acceptance and management of your current reality so you can later step into new directions and responsibilities with greater stability and clarity. Only you will know the answer to that, and only in the moment.

When you assess something as a problem instead of as something to simply be accepted as the way things are, you are assuming there is a potential resolution.

Organizations must create a culture in which it is acceptable that everyone has more to do than he or she can do, and in which it is sage to renegotiate agreements about what everyone is not doing.

When is a problem a project? Always. When you assess something as a problem instead of as something to simply be accepted as the way things are, you are assuming there is a potential resolution.

Some say that you should turn your face from the light of the moon. They say it makes you mad. I turn my face towards it and I laugh. Make me mad, I whisper. Go on, make Mina mad. I laugh again. Some people think that she's already mad, I think.

Death is knowing you're about to die,' says Mam. It's seeing the dead and seeing the living all at once. It's wanting not to die and not to live. It's wanting to stay with the last breath when the dead and the living are all around you, and touching you, and whispering, It's all right, Mam. Everything's all right. But there's no way of staying with the last breath. You have to die.

How can you turn yourself into something you want to be when you're alredy what you are?

I won't ask for enything mor complicated today as I don't wish to further disapoynt myself.

He narrows his eyes. "Is this true?" He sighs. "It is, isn't it? That's all I need.

There is real happiness to be gained from being able to distinguish between things that cannot be changed and things that should be changed.

It's not so much that time heals all wounds, as it is the passage of the years that lets us make peace with our grief in our own way.

Things sometimes did not work out. Even if you wanted them to more than anything else. You couldn't will someone to love you back. You had to move on.

Life is what it is, Will. You take it as it comes.

You had to take life as it came. It gave no quarter, spared no feelings. Limited no pain. Put no ceiling on happiness.

Why was it he was more comfortable with the dead than the living? The answer was relatively simple. The dead conveniently never asked questions.

We build walls because we are afraid. We do not like change. We do not like it when others who do not look or think like us come along and try and change things. Thus we run from it. Or, even worse, attack it." I

Facing fear is better than running from it, he said. What if it's fear you can't beat? Then it might be better to be dead, he answered.

right or wrong, good or bad. You just didn't wake up one day and decide enough was enough because your mate had a few more wrinkles or a few more pounds.

You know people who read are a lot more tolerant and open-minded than those who don't." "Great

Facts are irrefutable. Truths coming from those facts can be difficult to accept, particularly when they are of a personal nature. But truths, Agent Puller, cannot be ignored. Any more than lies can. And people do lie to themselves. All the time. We