Quotes About Acceptance

Suffering, gracefully accepted, refines the human heart, and the experience of darkness sharpens the vision of the spirit.

One sees many pretty young Beat couples. (I think they are pretty; some people think they are hideous.) Since conceit and "proving" are not major factors, there is affection. Homosexuality and bisexuality are not regarded as a big deal.

One must love a cat on its own terms.

It's pointless to blame someone for being themselves and looking to their own interests.

That's how the world is, and there is nothing an insignificant nobody like you, or even a significant somebody like me, can do about it.

Nemá smysl zlobit se na n?koho za to, že je sám sebou a stará se o vlastní zájmy.

Perfect people are annoying and off-putting. We connect with people through their cracks. It's what makes them human and, ultimately, attractive.

She reads Proust and he watches the Kardashians. Or worse, he wanted Clinton to win and she crows about Trump's victory. Yes, the second will be much harder to overcome than the first, but relational happiness can prevail

We typically think we're going to find the perfect mate who's going to solve all our problems and make our life perfect and that is just unrealistic. We fall in love with human beings, and human being have cracks and we actually love people for their vulnerability.

The answer to the first question was too impossible even to contemplate, but I would have to come to terms with it eventually. You see, we were in Hell. We were both in Hell.

It's all very well to say beauty is under the skin, or in the eye of the beholder, but no-one would say no to being prettier if they had the chance, so it is all rot.

Grief is the price we pay for having loved.

what brings you happiness?" "Mr. Cohen . . ." "Benny." "Benny, I don't really think much about it. I just go about my life day to day. Stuff happens. Some good. Some bad. I don't know what's at the end of the rainbow, or even if there is a rainbow.

She had tried running away from her problems but now knew she would have to face them.

in articulo mortis

We try to live and let live, but underneath it, we're left with a smug sense of superiority about ourselves and vague disgust for others who don't measure up.

undeserved guilt is just another form of indulgent self-pity.

I don't want to be superior to anyone for being afraid. We already have a culture built on that.

One of the largest problems in getting a new design accepted by an established manufacturer is not just the 'not invented here' syndrome, but also the 'we don't have the tooling' syndrome. Why invent something new when you can simply modify what you have?

The people of Canada have worked hard to build a country that opens its doors to include all, regardless of their differences a country that respects all, regardless of their differences a country that demands equality for all, regardless of their differences.

If heterosexual people can get married then gay and lesbian people can get married too

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?

For peace of mind we need to resign as general manager of the universe.