Quotes About Acceptance

Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

De fapt, în mintea mea, era în acelaÈ™i timp pe de-a-ntregul adev?rat È™i evident o minciun?, È™i poate numai copiii sunt în stare s? accepte asemenea adev?ruri cu dou? feÈ›e.

My children know the truth about me but still tolerate me, so far.

Harry surely hadn't meant to tell his only son that you couldn't accept black people to develop mentally like white people do. He had meant to say : I love you, I love my grandchildren, please stay another day.

Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.

The world is full of people who remain in relationships that they realize they have no business in. Yet, they stay, hoping and praying for change, believing that the other person will eventually appreciate them and recognize their value.

We have to take care of the moment and then move on to the next. We can't worry about what's to come.

When you're hurt, you feel stupid because you think you should have seen it coming. But if we knew everything that was going to happen to us we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning. All I'm saying is, open your mind and your heart to the possibilities.

The only abnormality is the incapacity to love." —Anaïs Nin

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love." —Tom Robbins

A man can die. He is glorious when he calmly accepts death; but when he fights like a tiger, when he stands at bay his back to the wall, a broken weapon in his hand, bloody, defiant, game to the end, then he is sublime. Then he wrings respect from the souls of even his bitterest foes. Then he is avenged even in his death.

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And you must forget what you are—were—I mean, and be happy. When you remember that old life you are bitter, and it hurts me.

Is it not the loss of things which makes life bitter?

When two people meant for each other refuse to accept their vocation, they sentence themselves to a life full of hatred and blame and everyone is to blame for their missed opportunity.

But that I should have ended up in a place like this seems too custom-made a nightmare to be the work of mere ill fortune.

Lonely people are terrible snobs about one another, I've found. They're afraid that consorting with their own kind will compound their freakishness.

Tea Cake, the son of the Evening Sun, had to die for loving her.

Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.

So when we looked at de picture and everybody got pointed out there wasn't nobody left except a real dark little girl with long hair standing by Eleanor. Dat's where Ah wuz's s'posed to be, but Ah couldn't recognize dat dark chile as me. So ah ast, 'where is me? Ah don't see me.' … 'Aw, aw! Ah'm colored!' Den dey all laughed real hard. But before Ah seen de picture Ah thought Ah wuz just like the rest.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

Light came to me when I realized that I did not have to consider any racial group as a whole. God made them duck by duck and that was the only way I could see them.

she received all things with the stolidness of the earth which soaks up urine and perfume with the same indifference.

Now they got to look into me loving Tea Cake and see whether it was done right or not! They don't know if life is a mess of corn-meal dumplings, and if love is a bed-quilt!