Quotes About Acceptance

In a way, Robert Mueller had come to accept the dialectical premise of Donald Trump—that Trump is Trump. It was circular reasoning to hold the president's essential character against him. Put another way, confronted by Donald Trump, Bob Mueller threw up his hands. Surprisingly, he found himself in agreement with the greater White House: Donald Trump was the president, and, for better or for worse, what you saw was what you got—and what the country voted for.

Bannon didn't much question Donald Trump's bona fides, or behavior, or electability, because, in part, Trump was just his latest rich man. The rich man is a fixed fact, which you have to accept and deal with in an entrepreneurial world—at least a lower-level entrepreneurial world. And, of course, if Trump had had firmer bona fides, better behavior, and clear electability, Bannon would not have had his chance.

Genuine biblical Christianity does not impose itself on unwilling people at the point of a sword. If you choose to reject Jesus, you're perfectly free to do so.

And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not vex him But the stranger that dwelleth with you shall be unto you as one born among you . . ." —Leviticus 19:33-34

Home is not where you live, but where they understand you." —Christian Morgenstern "Call

Anyone who never met a man he didn't like just isn't trying hard enough.

I thought that nothing enormously bad or good had happened to me during my life. All the normal things had occurred. I had lived a completely unremarkable life. I wanted only my home, and the love and safety of those around me, nothing else. I knew there was no particular reason why I was put on this earth, but here I was and I was glad to be here, awed by the beauty of it. It was a perfect moment. (p.99)

Why does the world have to destroy anything that doesn't fit in? We still can't figure out that this is the most important reason to love something

I like Alice Cooper too, even after I learned that she is a he.

I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

He who would teach men to die would teach them to live.

Of all our infirmities, the most savage is to despise our being.

He was doubtless an understanding Fellow that said, there was no happy Marriage but betwixt a blind Wife and a deaf Husband.

Let us a little permit Nature to take her own way; she better understands her own Affairs than we.

If you don't know how to die, don't worry Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you don't bother your head about it.

Let us give Nature a chance; she knows her business better than we do.

To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death of its strangeness, let us frequent it, let us get used to it; let us have nothing more often in mind than death... We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere." "To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

To philosophize is nothing else than to prepare oneself for death.

Peter..." She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. "Let's not go there." "That's what people always say about places where they already are.

Some people live to be seventy, sometimes eighty years old believing there is always something new just around the corner, as they say; in the end they practically have to be killed or at least reduced to a state of serious incapacity to get them to see reason.

As I got older, I also found myself agreeing more with Nietzsche, as is no doubt inevitable once your plumbing starts to fail.

it's perfectly possible to live without expecting anything of life; in fact, it's the most common way.

I can't hide the truth: I will end my life unhappy, cantankerous and alone, and I will have deserved it.