Quotes About Acceptance

Today, it seems as though inequality is implicitly tolerated,

there is a global rejection of society as it presently exists together with acceptance of the mechanisms that produce that society. De facto inequalities are rejected, but the mechanisms that generate inequality in general are implicitly recognized.

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately must we believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.

She looked around. "Oh, I've just got to hug somebody! You!" And she hugged Puck, the little ghost horse. "And you." She hugged Pook, and Peek, and even the nose of the moat monster. "But not you," she decided, encountering the zombie.

There was one question, however, which Inciarte had asked him and he could not answer. Why was it that he had lived while others had died? What purpose had God in making this selection? What sense could be made out of it? 'None,' replied Father Andrés. 'There are times when the will of God cannot be understood by our human intelligence. There are things which in all humility we must accept as a mystery.

I prayed to God from the bottom of my heart that this day would never come, but it has and we have to face it with courage and faith.

He did not think of God nor of his family but remarked to himself, 'Okay, I'm dying.

It ought to be plain how little you gain by getting excited and vexed. You'll always be late for the previous train, and always on time for the next.

WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK Some people cower and wince and shrink, owing to fear of what people may think. There is one answer to worries like these: people may think what the devil they please.

REFLECTION ON SIZE Small people often overrate the charm of being tall; which is, that you appreciate the charm of being small.

Why should I be ashamed to describe what nature was not ashamed to create?

They merit more praise who know how to suffer misery than those who temper themselves with contentment.

Muslims have a very bad attitude to homosexuality, they're very intolerant.

It is not possible with mortal mind to search out the purposes of the gods.

They say that this lot is bitterest: to recognize the good but by necessity to be barred from it.

Pamela realizes for the first time in her life that she hadn't made the wrong choice at all. Nor had she made the right choice. She had simply made a choice. And somewhere along the way, she had lost the courage to live by it.

No, I don't want to commit suicide, but I should like to fade away and die gently. To depart from life as one gets out of a bath.

We don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.

Death is not the worst than can happen to men.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

I shall continue to be anxious about him until he can permit himself some distraction and allow his wound to heal; nothing can do this but acceptance of the inevitable, lapse of time, and surfeit of grief.

I used to want to change the world. Now I'm open to letting it change me.