Quotes About Acceptance

Inés! Y como diez años antes, los sollozos redoblaron, y como entonces me respondió bajo sus brazos: —No, no…¡Es demasiado tarde!…

The voice from the tree did not summon them to do, but to be satisfied with what was done.

A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose.

Tradition makes the most horrible things acceptable to the mind which becomes blind to their deformity, and even the most detestable things, desirable, by a certain feigned sanctity which it attaches to them. But the charm once broken, the rational mind becomes transformed into another image, totally different, and entirely repugnant to the things which it before venerated as divine.

Usually, people... are unable to accept the reality of future sorrow, of a new day different from our past.

On the plains and prairies either you learn to shrug off the unpredictability of life or else its dangers become too overwhelming.

He was dead. Even with practice he would never be any deader.

If only I had loved myself more. How profound is that?

From a religious point of view, if God had thought homosexuality is a sin, he would not have created gay people.

Is this every kid's worst fear - that his mother and father don't love him? It was mine. (239)

You are trying to be logical. But most of the logic we live with is a lie, and most of our attempts to be logical are only attempts to evade the reality. So if we have a puzzle, stop trying to solve it. Don't cling to thoughts and notions. Let them pass through your mind and then dismiss them—or treat them all with equal indifference. Nothing

How do you go on knowing that you will never again - not ever, ever - see the person you have loved? How do you survive a single hour, a single minute, a single second of that knowledge? How do you hold yourself together?

Before he met Finkler, Treslove had never met a Jew. Not knowingly at least. He supposed a Jew would be like the word Jew — small and dark and beetling. A secret person. But Finkler was almost orange in colour and spilled out of his clothes.

Was it better then - measuring the loss - not to know happiness at all? Better to go through life waiting for what never came, because that way you had less to mourn?

Just when you've overcome the grief, you realise you are left with the loneliness.

In my experience people who can't stop making jokes about their identity aren't easy with it. The man of the world accepts who he is and the influences which have made him, and then gets on with living in the world.

Aristotle and Bacon can therefore be seen respectively as the grandfather and the father of the modern branch of the philosophy of science called "confirmation theory," that is, the study of how scientific hypotheses and theories are confirmed by evidence. Evidence clearly has a very significant bearing on the decisions of scientific communities to accept or reject certain theories, but spelling out the precise nature of that relationship is difficult

I like all my children, even the squat and ugly ones.

I can only repeat what I say to myself day and night: I expect nothing, yet life keeps taking unexpected turns.

What is done is done; and the egg cracked cannot be cured.

thou hast found me an archer that will make thy wife to wring! I would that thou hadst ne'er said one word to me, or that I had never passed thy way, or e'en that my right forefinger had been stricken off ere that this had happened! In haste I smote, but grieve I sore at leisure!" And then, even in his trouble, he remembered the old saw that "What is done is done; and the egg cracked cannot be cured.

I've never thought of the third place just as a physical environment. For me, the third place has always been a feeling. An emotion. An aspiration that all people can come together and be uplifted as a result of a sense of belonging. This is the cornerstone of our business, yes, but "belonging" is also a basic human right, which should be afforded all members of a society.

If you're a Christian you don't sit there and worry about what somebody else is doing, if they're happy and they're committed in a relationship.

Why be uptight about bowel movements and sex? We all have sex. We all have penises -- except for those of us who have vaginas.