Quotes About Acceptance

Maybe that's what real friendship is -- getting so used to people that you need to be annoyed by them.

You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.

It was a little weird that they were friends. But then, maybe freaks just tended to find each other.

Odd as this might sound, I suppose I'm glad you're here, Jacob. [Edward Cullen]

Unless you bear with the faults of a friend you betray your own.

You take me in, no questions asked. You strip away the ugliness that surrounds me. Are you an angel?

I knew that part of friendship consisted in accepting a friend's shortcomings, which sometimes included his parents.

Tell me you're crazy, maybe then I'll understand.

Some great friendships can be formed because you see one another at your best and worst.

What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a culture for deeper involvement, eventually, with them.

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."

A friend is someone with whom I can reveal many parts of me, even those I am meeting for the first time.

When one has lost a friend one's eyes should be neither dry nor streaming. Tears, yes, there should be, but not lamentation.

Friend: One who knows all about you and loves you just the same.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours.

I define friendship as a bond that transcends all barriers. When you are ready to expect anything and everything from friends, good, bad or ugly... that's what I call true friendship.

So I just went over and sat with him. Not a biggie. I wish people would stop trying to turn it into something more. He's just a kid. The weirdest-looking kid I've ever seen, yes. But just a kid.

Seek those who find your road agreeable your personality and mind stimulating your philosophy acceptable and your experiences helpful. Let those who do not seek their own kind.

Friends are folks who excuse you when you have made a fool of yourself.

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

People might look at you a bit funny, but it's okay. Artists are allowed to be a bit different.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.