Quotes About Acceptance

Our imperfections are the bonds that hold us together. We might as well recognize them.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous.

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

I am Dead, but it's not so bad. I've learned to live with it.

There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it.

Humans have different emotional states that are here to serve us, if anything be redirected. Not to be tamed.

Minor inconveniences are just that, and nothing more.

Einen Menschen zu lieben, wie er ist, das ist leicht. Schwer ist es einen Menschen so zu lieben wie er nicht ist. In einem Menschen all das zu sehen, was er sein könnte, aber noch nicht sein kann.

Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not have expectations or desires. You don't expect trees to change, you love them as they are.

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

The best-adjusted people are the 'psychologically patriotic,' who are glad to be what they are.

No type has everything. The introverts and thinkers, though likely to arrive at the most profound decisions, may have the most difficulty in getting their conclusions accepted. The opposite types are best at communicating, but not as adept at determining the truths to be communicated.

In any marriage, a type difference may at times produce an outright conflict [...] When this happens [...] One or both can assume that it is wrong of the other to be different - and be righteously indignant [...] They can assume that it is wrong of themselves to be different - and be depressed [...] Or they can acknowledge that each is justifiably and interestingly different from the other - and be amused.

el reconocimiento de que tenemos

Let the world either kill us or grow accustomed to us; here we stand.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.

A hedgehog will not make peace with the world. He is not reconciled. He cannot accept that he knows only many things. He seeks to know one big thing, and strives without ceasing to give reality a unifying shape. Foxes settle for what they know and may live happy lives. Hedgehogs will not settle and their lives may not be happy.

That old saying which the peasants call the bachelors' prayer: "I pray thee, good Lord, that I may not be married. But if I am to be married, that I may not be a cuckold. But if I am to be a cuckold, that I may not know. But if I am to know, that I may not mind."

Perhaps he knew, as I did not, that the Earth was made round so that we would not see too far down the road.

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.