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Quotes About Acceptance

If You Lose Your Keys, At Least It's Better Than Losing Your Car.
~ Edward Harris
So. You're a fallen angel." She folded her arms."I'm not fallen, " he said roughly."Then what are you?"He shrugged. "Busted.
~ Vicki Pettersson, The Taken
I was young once and slender and pretty and I made the most of it. It's somebody else's turn now.
~ Abigail Thomas
She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
~ Alan Garner
And people get so weird about mental illness, you follow the rules! You don't up a heart patient on a roller coaster, you don't put a mental patient on a hunting trip with you!
~ Christopher Titus
New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!
~ Arthur C. Clarke
There is more pain from holding on to the thought of pain than there is in the situation itself. If you let the world strike you, it will do so less cruelly than your own imagination.
~ Lester Levenson
Imagination offers people consolation for what they cannot be, and humor for what they actually are.
~ Albert Camus
An act of imagination is an act of self-acceptance.
~ Richard Hugo
Imagination is so much harder to face than reality.
~ Mabel Seeley
I'll not punish you for having an imagination.
~ Betty Smith
Go on and close your eyes, go on imagine me there She's got similar features with longer hair And if that's what it takes to get you through Go on and close your eyes it shouldn't bother you
~ Melissa Etheridge
death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience.
~ Isak Dinesen
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
~ Horace Walpole
Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.
~ Martha Ostenso
It is not enough to be happy, one must be content.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.
~ Chogyam Trungpa
If you let go a little you will have a little happiness. If you let go a lot you will have a lot of happiness. If you let go completely you will be free.
~ Ajahn Chah
Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.
~ Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
~ Barbara Jordan
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
~ Hannah Arendt
If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
~ T.S. Eliot
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.
~ Marcus Aurelius