Quotes About Acceptance

I see people with Asperger's syndrome as a bright thread in the rich tapestry of life.

If you let people into your life a little bit, they can be pretty damn amazing.

Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.

I think of death only with tranquility, as an end. I refuse to let death hamper life. Death must enter life only to define it.

Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

Some refuse the loan of life to avoid the debt of death.

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.

E' così che la follia del mondo prova a impossessarti di te: penetrando dall'esterno, costringendoti a vivere nella sua realtà.

Perhaps there is no shame in this, perhaps I can bear this, fight this. To give in but not give up. And projected back out behind him, toward the sea, Saul unable to say the name, just three simple words that seemed so inadequate, and yet they were all he had left to use.

And I never did look back for better or worse. If funding for a project ran out or the area we studied was suddenly bought for development, I never returned. There are certain kinds of deaths that one should not be expected to relive. Certain kinds of connections so deep that when they are broken you feel the snap of the link inside of you.

What occurs after revelation and paralysis? Either death or a slow and certain thawing.

I have come to have a great affection for monsters...

There's three ways not to see what you don't want to,' she told me. 'One is the coward's way and too damned painful. The other is to close your eyes forever which is the same as the first, when it comes to it. The third is the hardest and the best: You have to make sure only the things you can afford to see come before you.' *

the seeming attempt to cast it away turned into an endless embrace.

now in her eyes the knowledge that this was futile, that this had always been futile

The world we are a part of now is difficult to accept, unimaginably difficult. I don't know if I accept everything even now. I don't know how I can. But acceptance moves past denial, and maybe there's defiance in that, too.

The President promised me to reflect upon this proposition, and to confer with his Cabinet upon the propriety of adopting it. All Cabinet consultations are secret; which is equivalent to saying that I never knew what occurred in that meeting to which my proposition was submitted. The result was not communicated to me, but the events which followed proved that the suggestion was not accepted.

And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point, it just isn't worth the fight to fix it.

I'm not your proverbial worst nightmare because nightmares aren't real and I am more real than anybody wants to admit.

Life is far too short to bear malice, I always say. You play the cards you're dealt, as I did once with Richard Harris at Shepperton Studios. The fact that I lost every penny I had -- he wouldn't play house rules -- and that he wouldn't even give me the fare home matters not a fig and is now so blurred in my memory it is hardly worth mentioning.

Faith is the only reasonable response to the truth.

Having a secret is isolating." Try, as much as possible, not to hide your flaws or perceived differences.

You probably accept a subordinate role in your relationships with family members, lovers, and friends. Undoubtedly this gives rise to anger (although you may not be aware of it). You like the security of these relationships, but you feel angry toward the people who provide it.