Quotes About Acceptance

People tended to reconcile themselves to the status quo, declaring that 'this is how it always was, and this is how it always will be'.

For thousands of years, philosophers, thinkers and prophets have besmirched money and called it the root of all evil. Be that as it may, money is also the apogee of human tolerance. Money is more open-minded than language, state laws, cultural codes, religious beliefs and social habits. Money is the only trust system created by humans that can bridge almost any cultural gap, and that does not discriminate on the basis of religion, gender, race, age or sexual orientation.

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel has recently confessed that he aims to live for ever. 'I think there are probably three main modes of approaching [death],' he explained. 'You can accept it, you can deny it or you can fight it. I think our society is dominated by people who are into denial or acceptance, and I prefer to fight it.

If modernity has a motto, it is 'shit happens'.

were too familiar to ignore, but too different to tolerate.

I wore goofy hats to school and did musical theater. Most people thought I was a dork. But if you have a sense of humor about it, no one can bring you down.

Every day is a new experience and I take it as it comes.

I don't believe in one ideal beauty.

Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.

My mom always encouraged me, it was never weird. She'd look at 'Heavy Metal' and go 'Woo-hoo!'

Sweet Pea: There are armed guards everywhere! And if Blue finds out, we're dead! Rocket: We're already dead.

I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?

Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical.

People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You, on the other hand, look like you might be partial to the skinny type, a point of view I fully respect, don't misunderstand me.

Niciodat? omul nu trebuie s?-?i dea moartea, nici m?car s? ?i-o cheme. Omul are moartea în m?duva oaselor, din clipa în care s-a pl?m?dit... Vezi tu, Darie, în via?? po?i s? chemi, dac? e?ti nezdrav?n la minte, ?i moartea. Moartea ori o chemi, ori n-o chemi, tot vine când î?i este dat s? vin? ?i... te ia...

We make God the steward of morality and build up expectations, expectations that sooner or later are bound to be shattered. If instead we strive to accept all sides of the equation, if we could get into a Möbius strip mentality in which both sides of the page, good and evil, are one and the same, then we start to get a real sense of that famous phrase from Adon Olam: "Ve-hu echad ve-ein sheini," God is one, there is no other.

Human ideologies are based on human believe and acceptance of one ideology by all human is not possible as long as each human could find answers about his existence by his own mind."

Humanity prevails over all other ideologies because one accept it or reject it for him but he cannot deny it because it is about him.

When you're hurt, you feel stupid because you think you should have seen it coming. But if we knew everything that was going to happen to us we wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

A phrase from Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil came to mind: "Two tears in a bucket. Motherfuck it.

I knew you"d never be American enough to help me reconstruct my life.

Let it be clarified here that neither the Akkadians nor the Sumerians had called these visitors to Earth gods. It is through later paganism that the notion of divine beings or gods has filtered into our language and thinking. When we employ the term here, it is only because of its general acceptance and usage that we do so.

We creoles are so different, one from the other, that it's hard for us to mix properly amongst ourselves, let alone among Carib people who have a lot more things in common. Maybe its because Carib people remind us of what we lost trying to get up in the world. See, in the old days, according to Granny Straker, the more you left behind the old ways, the more acceptable you were to the powerful people in the government and the churches who had the power to change a black person's life.

We all have vices, visible and invisible. Some we deliberately keep secret. Others we don't even realize or we refuse to admit we have…Vices can be lots of fun, or they can turn your life into a living hell. Accept them for what they are, just another aspect of the mind's creation, and you can enjoy them—if you choose—without being broken by them. - Zeena Schreck for VICE Magazine