Quotes About Acceptance

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches tolerance.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish to bewail it senseless.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

You are not angry with people when you laugh at them. Humor teaches them tolerance.

But of course the instant I try to make myself relax, true relaxation vanishes, and in its place is a strange phenomenon called "trying to relax." Relaxation happens only when allowed, not as a result of "trying" or "making.

Letting it happen is not making it happen. It is not trying hard.

Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say; Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay good night and quickly turn away.

We sat as silent as a stone, We knew, though she'd not said a word, That even the best of love must die, And had been savagely undone Were it not that Love upon the cry Of a most ridiculous little bird Tore from the clouds his marvellous moon.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, And God the herdsman goads them on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet.

You shall love your crooked neighbor with you crooked heart.

Laziness acknowledges the relation of the present to the past but ignores its relation to the future; impatience acknowledge its relation to the future but ignores its relation to the past; neither the lazy nor the impatient man, that is, accepts the present instant in its full reality and so cannot love his neighbour completely.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and see our illusions die.

Were all stars to disappear and die, I should learn to look at an empty sky And feel its total dark sublime, Though this might take me a little time. —W. H. Auden, "The More Loving One

Life remains a blessing Although you cannot bless.

Only as I am, can I love you as you are

How much must be forgotten out of love, How much must be forgiven, even love.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die.