Quotes About Acceptance

Women and cats do what they do; there is nothing a man can do about it

I came by my decrepitude the hard way and I propose to enjoy it.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes.

Give the future enough thought to be ready for it—but don't worry about it. Live each day as if you were to die next sunrise. Then face each sunrise as a fresh creation and live for it, joyously. And never think about the past. No regrets, ever.

One damn sure thing!—he wasn't going to let them be rough with that Smith lad. He was a nuisance, granted, but he was a nice lad and rather appealing in a helpless, half-witted way.

Don't bawl over Ben—not in my presence. The worst that can possibly have happened to him is death . . . and that we are all in for—if not this morning, then in days, or weeks, or years at most.

Simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it a 'good.

Poor old Agnes! So ambitious. He guessed he had been quite a disappointment to her . . . and no doubt the change of life wasn't making things any easier for her. Well, at least she was loyal, right to her toes . . . and we all have our shortcomings; she was probably as sick of him as he—no point in that!

But, do you know, once you get used to it, it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks all right to start with, she still looks all right with her head smooth.

We humans have to make considerable progress before we can accept a free gift, and value it.

Well, I suppose it did.

The moment I put it on, that suit became an old, familiar, and valued friend—and I became taller and wider across the shoulders. It could not have fit better if it had been made on my body. It knew things about me I wouldn't learn for years yet, and approved of them all.

What distinguishes Buddhism from any other faith I've studied—from most human beings, really—is that the people who face the wall and the people who face away from it have never fought a war over it. They're never going to agree…but they feel no need to. Buddha himself is supposed to have said, "People with opinions just go around bothering each other.

He ate what was set before him

One must accept death, learn not to fear it, then never worry about it. 'Make Today Count!' as a friend whose days are numbered told me. Live in that spirit and when death comes, it will come as a welcome friend.

they care about skin color—by making point of how they don't care.

Thorby had two choices. Be adopted quietly or make a fuss and be adopted anyhow

If you don't love yourself, no one else will. If you don't like yourself, you can't like other people.

No, not exactly. Damn it, why couldn't she have married a white man? We brought her up better than that.

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Is mixed-up place another way; they care about skin color—by making point of how they don't care.

One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die … and accepts his sentence undismayed.

To honor and accept one's own shadow is a profound spiritual discipline. It is whole-making and thus holy and the most important experience of a lifetime.

Curiously, people resist the noble aspects of their shadow more strenuously than they hide the dark sides. To draw the skeletons out of the closet is relatively easy, but to own the gold in the shadow is terrifying. It is more disrupting to find that you have a profound nobility of character than to find out you are a bum.