Quotes About Acceptance

Allein schon der Begriff "Toleranz" setzt voraus, dass man von Zuruckgebliebenen umgeben ist, die man tolerieren muss, als waere man selbst der Traeger einer hoeheren, ueberlegenen Kultur, die sich selbst nie hinterfragt.

All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.

If you believe in democracy, are you not thereby obliged to accept, without discrimination, the fall-outs that come with a democratic choice, even if this means the termination of the democratic process itself?

For a long time he watched her. When she was lost to sight, he was almost a little moved. But that's life, thought death.

Truth is like the town whore. Everybody knows her, but nonetheless, it's embarrassing to meet her on the street.

No es justo? El destino nunca es justo.

Do not judge lest you be judged yourselves. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it shall be measured to you." (Matthew 7:1-2) The real danger in judging others lies in what it does to us. We begin to believe that the way we do things is right and proper. From there it's an easy slide to thinking of our way as being the only way. One of the greatest lessons the saints have to teach us is to mind our own business.

I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.

My relationship with death remains the same -- I'm strongly against it.

It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Cloquet hated reality but realized it was still the only place to get a good steak.

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens.

Saying, "I don't hate gay people - just their lifestyle" is the same as saying, "I don't hate black people - it's their skin that pisses me off."

My main hope for myself is to be where I am.

Buddhism finds happiness in the midst of rather than the absence of problems.

There's no way out of this mess, except to become enlightened and then enjoy it. —Robert Thurman A

Buddhism teaches us to recognize these cycles of impermanence and have the courage to accept them.

Sustainable happiness is not the absence of problems. As Nichiren writes: "Though worldly troubles may arise, never let them disturb you. No one can avoid problems, not even sages or worthies.

Ah fuck, he's going to gnaw my arm off; I'm losing a limb. I can't go through life with one arm. I mean, fuck, I'm already a hideous rodent with no game," he said, sniffling. "I'll be a wobbly, off-balanced dipshit who lost his arm to an ass. And not even the good type of ass. "Are you crying?" "No, no, I have sweat in my eyes," he explained as the donkey's tongue kept licking his face.

This is California. You can't have everything.

É che novanta volte su cento, conoscevi già le reazioni di tutti: qualcuno ti compativa, e ti faceva rimpiangere di non essere stato zitto; un altro suggeriva distrazioni, donne, vino,bagordi, senza capire che quando sei pronto per quelle o stai già meglio o sei all'ultimo stadio, ed è la via intermedia che ti fa star male.

Let tomorrow take care of itself.