Quotes About Acceptance

I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable.

Acceptance is the universal currency of real friendship. . . .It does not warp or shape or wrench a person to be anything other than what they are.

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care

I'm back with my own kind of people here now, the bums and drinkers and no goods and it is a fine thing.

Once a friend, always a friend. Why should borders stop that?

Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.

The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired.

Make allowances for your friends' imperfections as readily as you do for your own.

We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.

Friends are people who know you really well and like you anyway.

We can only accept friendship from others to the degree that we give it to ourselves.

I don't want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.

When my friends lack an eye, I look at them in profile.

Unless you make allowances for your friends foibles, you betray your own.

Be liked and you will never want.

A friend should bear his friend's infirmities.

Never refuse any advance of friendship, for if nine out of ten bring you nothing, one alone may repay you.

The good thing about being Dr. Frankenstein is that you can always make new friends.

The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.

The loss which is unknown is no loss at all.

I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.

What is a friend? I will tell you . . . . it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.