Quotes About Acceptance

I thinking gay and straight people use the same putters, it's not a matter of putters but a matter of hole selection.

Handicapped with my own melancholy

But there's another story, A real short one, probably written on my grave: couldn't stay sober. Never liked himself.

I had once thought strength of character was a hardening of oneself; an intricate protection system by which you reconciled yourself to the truths of life and learned to let them not bother you. But all systems of character building go right out the window when you find there aren't anymore truths.. or none you recognize.

Quelli che ci amano possono essere divisi in due categorie: chi ci capisce e chi ci perdona i nostri peggiori peccati. Raramente riusciamo a trovare una persona capace di entrambe le cose.

Billy might have known it for several months by now, and I might only just have begun to grasp it, but we had both come to the same realization: the realization that what we had to give, nobody really wanted any more

If you sleep, if you dream, you must accept your dreams. It's the role of the dreamer.

Take It and Like It

Mr Gardner remarked at this point that he would have thought twice about accepting this job if he had known that he was joining a sinking ship, and asked whose idea it had been to employ this bloody woman in the first place.

You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you're all the same.

You laugh at me becuse I am different. I laugh at you becuse your all the same.

Though the issue of collaboration, whether active or passive, remains a highly emotive matter in France, the fact was that, in the summer of 1940, most people in the unoccupied zone accepted the armistice.

It's healthy to say uncle when your bone's about to break.

The fundamental fact about all of us is that we're alive for a while but will die before long. This fact is the real root cause of all our anger and pain and despair. And you can either run from this fact or, by way of love, you can embrace it.

It's good to have friends in life. If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect.

Deploring other people--their lack of perfection--had always been our sport.

Well, and that's what really counts, isn't it? I've become one of those women who put a ton of work into looking OK. If I can just go on and make a beautiful corpse, I'll have the whole problem pretty well licked.

I'm telling you that I will be all right without you. Everything we have is temporary, the joy, the suffering, everything. I had the joy of experiencing your goodness for a very long time. It was enough. I have no right to ask for more.

She had a lifetime of practice at arriving late in a family of four and being loved by all.

I said it was OK, I said I loved her, I said not to worry about me. Her breathing became slower and more labored, and then just past noon, it stopped altogether. I laid my cheek on her chest and held her for a long time, not thinking anything, just being an animal that had lost its mother.

I'm the fat little humiliation he's married to.

It's a country of big children, people being naughty behind the teacher's back, people tattling on each other, people getting their dumb certificates for being good socialists. People submitting to the system because they're German and because it's a system. The whole thing was stupid and a lie. But they're not arrogant, not know-it-alls. They give what they have and they take me the way I am.

Dogs again had it right. They didn't trouble themselves with mysteries that could never be solved anyway.

I may be dead tomorrow, I said to myself, but