Quotes About Acceptance

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

The peak of tolerance is most readily achieved by those who are not burdened by convictions.

There are two kinds of people, I think: those who want to know the future and those who do not. I've never met anyone ambivalent about this. I have been both kinds. For now, I think I know which one is better, but I'm prepared to change my mind again. It may be I am like that drunk who tells himself he can handle his alcohol now. But if I told you I could tell the future, you would laugh at me. And I would laugh at me too.

Nothing to fear from a fate that was already yours, then, except, perhaps, that it would never leave you.

Their whole difficult lives seemed not to weigh on them at all. Taken as mornings and meals, suppers and evenings, all of the world could be carried, both the sad and the delicious, their lives seemed to say.

Alone with myself and my talent, I chose it in some way I never had before. I chose myself also. The person I was and had been all along, the one who had not belonged to the place where she was born, nor to the places she found along the way, the one always under the mask, here she came out and breathed the air and felt at home. I had always believed that to be this person might destroy me or the world, and so as the world seemed to end, this made the end of the world seem nearly a paradise.

It's nothin' to me, he said. We're none of us made right for this world. But we're still here, aren't we? And

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. And

Never expect a perfect work from an imperfect man

Home had a new meaning now. Jago watched him, and was satisfied. Like

It was so wonderful to find people who were, well, like people should be.

If being is what life is all about, why are we so afraid of it? Why is it so difficult for us to "let go and just be"?

If being crazy means having a hard time adapting to the world as it is (a definition that I agree with), then society is crazy."1

The Gospel is not a mere message of deliverance, but a canon of conduct; it is not a theology to be accepted, but it is ethics to be lived. It is not to be believed only, but it is to be taken into life as a guide.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

She was made for untidy rooms and rumpled beds.

Gracious acceptance is an art - an art which most never bother to cultivate. We think that we have to learn how to give, but we forget about accepting things, which can be much harder than giving.... Accepting another person's gift is allowing him to express his feelings for you.

Why is it that there are always these problems and misunderstandings between men and women? Surely it would have been better if God had made only one sort of person, and the children had come by some other means, with the rain perhaps.

There is room in history for all of us.

I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

"Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed" was the ninth beatitude.