Quotes About Acceptance

Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit or robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern all. But

Love shared is no sin.

I can't forget things that way. There's only one thing for it, and that's to admit everything and accept everything, and find some way of living that doesn't mean always sitting on top of a chest of grudges, trying to keep the lid from opening.

Correction without connection yields rejection.

Ask me no more: thy fate and mine are seal'd:I strove against the stream and all in vain:Let the great river take me to the main:No more, dear love, for at a touch I yield;Ask me no more.

Speak no more of his renown.Lay your earthly fancies down,And in the vast cathedral leave him.God accept him, Christ receive him.

But, friend, to meHe is all fault who hath no fault at all.For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.

There is nothing so wrong as accepting a thing merely because men who have done things say it should be so.

There's no such thing as bad weather, only unsuitable clothing.

This feeble attempt at self-deception only makes the truth harder when you're forced to meet it

The one who performs a deed and his heart does not believe in that deed, Allah will not accept any of his practices - but that it be along with the sincerity of intention.

God has some areas where he likes to be supplicated in, and the prayer of the supplicator is accepted (in those areas); the sanctuary of Husayn (a.s.) is one of these.

We don't need to allow our vision of justice to be constrained only by what seems realistic from the perspective of today, and especially not by what powerful & privileged groups deem acceptable or pragmatic.

If you cannot get things as much as you desire than be contented with what you have.

When you have to depart from this world and have to meet death (eventually), then why wish delay? (i.e., why feel nervous about death?)

embrase imperfection

Somehow this wasn't the same as melancholy. It was something else, about how melancholy and nostalgia weren't relevant in the slightest. Things just happened. Then they were over. Time just passed. Partly it felt unpleasant, to think like that, rude even. Partly it felt good. It was kind of a relief.

Fear is one of my belongings. Fear will always be a part of any belonging, anywhere, that I ever do, for the rest of my life. I fought hard, to get here to your country. And the first thing you did when I arrived was hand me a letter saying, "Welcome to a country in which you are not welcome. You are now a designated unwelcome person with whom we will do as we please.

Regrets when you're dead? A past when you're dead? Is there never any escaping the junkyard of the self?

Friends are always pretty, even when they're not.

Somehow this wasn't the same as melancholy. It was something else, about how melancholy and nostalgia weren't relevant in the slightest. Things just happened. Then they were over. Time just passed. Partly it felt unpleasant, to think like that, rude even. Partly it felt good. It was kind of a relief.

Hope is exactly that, that's all it is, a matter of how we deal with the negative acts towards human beings by other human beings in the world, remembering that they and we are all human, that nothing human is alien to us, the foul and the fair, and that most important of all we're here for a mere blink of the eyes, that's all.