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Quotes About Acceptance

There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.
~ Ann Oakley
I have tried sex with both men and women. I found I liked it.
~ Dusty Springfield
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.
~ Robert A Heinlein
Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
~ Ovid
Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weaknesses.
~ Unknown
Women wish to be loved without a why or a wherefore; not because they are pretty, or good, or well-bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
~ Oscar Wilde
Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
~ Robert A Heinlein
Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
~ Kate Clinton
The difficulty is not to find your purpose, it's to face it.
~ Unknown
Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
~ Carl Jung
When you can't have what you want, it's time to start wanting what you have.
~ Unknown
I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself
~ Maya Angelou
Just because you miss someone, that doesn't mean you need them back. Missing is just a part of moving on.
~ Unknown
We all have at least one thing in life we want really bad yet cannot have. We have to accept the inevitable sometimes. The sooner you recognize and conquer what's holding you back from attaining it or the reason you can't have it, the sooner you can plug that gap in your life.
~ Unknown
Sometimes you think you've gotten over a person, but when you see him smile you suddenly realize you're just pretending you're over him to ease the pain of knowing that he will never be yours.
~ Unknown
Lower your guard to let happiness in.
~ Unknown
You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.
~ Unknown
We know our friends by their defects rather than their merits.
~ W Somerset Maugham
You must love yourself before you love another. By accepting yourself and fully being what you are, your simple presence can make others happy.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Love is like energy. It can never be created nor destroyed...it is just always there. You just have to realize that fact and you have to learn that as soon as you stopped loving him in the way you did that love left to somewhere else. Now all you have to do is find out where that love went. That love went to whoever the next person in your life will be. That next person could be one of your friends or someone you might dislike, you just have to find that out.
~ Unknown
We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.
~ Unknown
It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.
~ Unknown
A friend is one to whom one can pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keeping what is worth keeping, and, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
~ Arabian Proverb