Quotes About Acceptance

I must say tonight my greatest hope is to die in my bed, at peace with the world, as an old man.

The three things in life he'd wanted to avoid had all come to pass: "to wear eyeglasses, to lose my hair, and to become a refugee.

On ne pardonne pas à son ami ses erreurs, on ne les excuse pas non plus. On les comprend.

I love life, but not everything in it. I love people, but not all of them. I love myself, but not everything about me.

can't change what you don't acknowledge.

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and predictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

Do we have a hand mirror?' I asked from the kitchen doorway. 'Never use one,' said Lester, examining the date on a carton of sour cream. 'Naturally, you're a male. What you see is what you've got,' I said resentfully. 'Huh?' said Lester.

Happiness is wanting what you have. Being happy with what you've got. Enjoying it, and making it all it could be.

Thanks for coming over," Beth said as she opened the door for them. "I mean it." And from behind her, Caroline squeaked, "With you by my side, Elmer, we can do anything!" Everyone grinned, and Wally added, "Annabelle, I never thought I'd amount to much, but when I met you, everything changed!" "Cut it out," said Josh, turning red, but he was smiling too.

I think we should all just lie down beside each other with our arms folded over our chests and die peacefully, Caroline said in a hoarse whisper, ever the actress.

It was going to be like this forever and ever, Wally knew. Unless the Bensons came back at the end of the year, the Malloys would probably stay in Buckman, and Wally would have to listen to his brothers talk about them for the rest of this life.

It is possible to differ politically, socially, religiously, or in many other ways, yet to be friends.

How do you like me now?" she inquired archly. He was cautious. "I thought you didn't really care for me. Why are you making yourself so lovely?" She grimaced prettily. "I told you my deepest sins, and you didn't reject me. That's worth something.

Don't be concerned about being disloyal to your pain by being joyous.

Death is not the worst that can happen to men.

Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him.

T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.

Similarly with regard to truth, won't we say that a soul is maimed if it hates a voluntary falsehood, cannot endure to have one in itself, and is greatly angered when it exists in others, but is nonetheless content to accept an involuntary falsehood, isn't angry when it is caught being ignorant, and bears its lack of learning easily, wallowing in it like a pig?

Most people are not just comfortable in their ignorance, but hostile to anyone who points it out.

Be of good cheer, then, my dear Crito, and say that you are burying my body only

I am afraid that other people do not realize that the one aim of those who practice philosophy in the proper manner is to practice for dying and death. Now if this is true, it would be strange indeed if they were eager for this all their lives and then resent it when what they have wanted and practiced for a long time comes upon them.

for the uneducated, when they engage in argument about anything, give no thought to the truth about the subject of discussion but are only eager that those present will accept the position they have set forth.

There are two things a person should never be angry at: what they can help, and what they cannot.