Quotes About Acceptance

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.

You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.

Here is what I know about homosexuality: That it is okay. That it is a sin if done wrong. That it is a better sin if done right

I can't go back," said Towser. "Nor I," said Fowler. "They would turn me back into a dog," said Towser. "And me," said Fowler, "back into a man.

And yet he had learned to submerge that sense of horror, to disregard the outward appearance of it, to regard all life as brother life, to meet all things as people.

He was beginning to grasp the human equation: to be intelligently alive means to cherish what you've got, fight for what you want, spurn what you don't want, and forget about what you can't have.

at first we love the illusion of perfection. Later we come to love imperfections, because they signal vulnerability: and what we love, we yearn to protect.

But he was a stranger and we tend to believe whatever we first hear about strangers.

was beginning to grasp the human equation: to be intelligently alive means to cherish what you've got, fight for what you want, spurn what you don't want, and forget about what you can't have.

to be intelligently alive means to cherish what you've got, fight for what you want, spurn what you don't want, and forget about what you can't have.

I'm no spring chicken. The clock goes and Bessie goes. Only my machinery can't be fixed.

There is no such thing as fate. We are born, we live, we die. We invent meaning to make life tolerable.

A rewarding life is aging without hatred or envy.

Everything looks good when everybody loves you.

Friends are not like physical goods which are for sale. You don't have to beg for people to like you.

Stubbornness is not the opposite of leniency, but the extension of tolerance.

There are no diverse cultures in any land, only acceptance and unacceptance.

Being unripe for any job and not accepting it is understandable. Being ready for any job and not accepting it is permissible. Being unconfident for any job and accepting it is divisible.

Equanimity is where and when you know how to smile, laugh and cry.

The privilege of portraying any role in life is not in the packaging or editing of the character, but in the acceptance of a responsibility that defines the role.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt.