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Quotes About Acceptance

The truth will set you free, but not until it's done with you.' The
~ David Foster Wallace
The more she wants to be accepted by the world, the more she's beaten back by her heightened perception of her own difference.
~ David Foster Wallace
Marathe was prepared to die violently at any time, which rendered him free to choose among emotions.
~ David Foster Wallace
Denial,' Charlotte finally says, 'is not a river in Egypt.' 'Hows about the both of you shut the fuck up,' says Emil Minty.
~ David Foster Wallace
sentence-by-sentence basis—that it's okay if a person
~ David Foster Wallace
Forget so-called peer-pressure. It's more like peer-hunger. No? We enter a spiritual puberty where we snap to the fact that the great transcendent horror is loneliness, excluded engagement of the self. Once we've hit this age, we will now give or take anything, wear any mask, to fit, be part-of, not be Alone, we young.
~ David Foster Wallace
The defecatory posture is an accepting posture, it occurs to him. Head down, elbows on knees, the fingers laced together between the knees.
~ David Foster Wallace
351. As in a combination of the First and Twelfth Steps, goes the AA joke: 'My Life is Unmanageable and I'd Like to Share it With You.
~ David Foster Wallace
L'accettazione della realtà è una fonte di energia in se stessa
~ David Foster Wallace
You are so crushed and revolted. You become a lesbian
~ David Foster Wallace
Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks in it.
~ David Foster Wallace
It is often preferable to settle for a satisfactory solution, rather than pursue an optimal solution.
~ Unknown
When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
who can tell me that that calmness itself is not DESPAIR?
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
Tush, man! praise the day when the sun has set.
~ William Morris
He did not want to feel old. He did not want to feel the weight of his age hovering above him, mocking him out of the core of a man's pride, waiting to descend upon his mind and body.
~ Unknown
To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book
~ William Saroyan
Illness must be considered to be as natural as health.
~ William Saroyan
Lidi jsou t?žký. Lidi jsou lidi. Lidi jsou zábava, hra, fantazie, kouzla a ?árymáry. Lidi miluju. Bláznivé lidi, krásné lidi, zklamané lidi, nemocné lidi, zlomené lidi, zni?ené lidi. Takové lidi miluju.
~ William Saroyan
O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father refuse thy name, thou art thyself thou not a montegue, what is montegue? tis nor hand nor foot nor any other part belonging to a man What is in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, So Romeo would were he not Romeo called retain such dear perfection to which he owes without that title, Romeo, Doth thy name! And for that name which is no part of thee, take all thyself.
~ William Shakespeare
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more. Men were deceivers ever, One foot in sea, and one on shore, To one thing constant never. Then sigh not so, but let them go, And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into hey nonny, nonny. Sing no more ditties, sing no more Of dumps so dull and heavy. The fraud of men was ever so Since summer first was leafy. Then sigh not so, but let them go, And be you blithe and bonny, Converting all your sounds of woe Into hey, nonny, nonny.
~ William Shakespeare
What's done cannot be undone.
~ William Shakespeare
Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.
~ William Shakespeare
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Your fate awaits you. Accept it in body and spirit. To get used to the life you'll most likely be leading soon, get rid of your low-class trappings.
~ William Shakespeare