Quotes About Acceptance

I like life. I would not want to live forever, but for a little while, life is fine.

Isn't that what people say: it is better this way? Meaning I cannot bear it but I will. I will close my eyes and stumble forward into the darkness.

Women never understand. We fall in love with their defects, not their perfection.

Faith is an admirable trait. It's good to have faith in another person. But when faith is used as a substitute for reality, then it becomes a crutch for refusing to deal with that reality.

It matters not how it seems. All that matters is what is, and I will simply have to deal with whatever that happens to be.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them.

I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

If you are trying to be inventive and come up with lots of interesting new ideas, it's usually the worst thing in the world if someone comes along and starts being critical. Thus, the power of brainstorming: no one is allowed to criticize any idea or suggestion that is offered—no matter how stupid, impractical, or useless it seems. You can't get the good ones and the fruitful interaction among the odd ones unless you welcome the terrible ones.

To love as God loves means loving not just others like us, but those who are not.

The Bible, just as it is, still works. Don't try to explain it. Just accept it. That won't make you a mindless zombie. It just means you are accepting your own human limitations and acknowledging by faith that something bigger than ourselves is happening, someone bigger is behind it, and we have the privilege to be a part of it.

Wisdom teaches us to embrace both the adequacy and the limitations of our God-talk, to keep the two in tension. Perhaps accepting that paradox is true faith.

Another dynamic at work here is how friends, family, and church members would handle it if they knew what you were thinking. Feeling judged and banished is a common story among those who take a risk to let people in on their well-guarded secret.

I've learned to be fine with not knowing.

There is no point in launching technology before customers are ready to use it.

Pick a gender and stick with it, guys.

Mother Mary, this is not what was meant to be." "Nothing ever is, Doc. I learned that long ago." "Ha! You're too young." "Depends how you fill the years, doesn't it?

I love humans, all humans. I often think that perhaps I was born into the wrong species.

But it's so stupid. I just want to be left alone, I want time to come to terms with what's happened. That's all. We've got this beautiful farm, and we're making it work without hurting anybody.

Acceptance of truth is fundamental to our ethos. To determine truth we must first listen to all opinion.

Carys accepted a glass of white wine from the maidbot

You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.

Hindsight must surely be the most useless function of the human brain, torturing yourself over the unalterable past.

Every man will tell you little boys should not play with dolls but ask any mother and they will tell you, every little boy has gone to sleep cuddled into one at one time in there life.