Quotes About Acceptance

Christian name hell! I'm naming my son just what he is. I'm a whore and he is my son. If he grows up ashamed of me, the hell with him. That's what I'm wantin' to name him, and that's what it's goin' to be. Whoreson!

But there are no happy endings, because if things are happy they have not ended.

In your eighties you are invisible. Nearing ninety you hope no one sees you.

If you have an overdeveloped ego, you are not scared of surrender.

I feel the circles grow smaller, and old age is a ceremony of losses, which is on the whole preferable to dying at forty-seven or fifty-two.

When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.

There's one advantage to smoking, about which we agree. When our breathing starts to vanish, we will not ask, "Why me?

the first move to a more tolerant Australia must come from controlling the aversion to Muslims that is at present the principal xenophobia in this country.

Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

To treat the inhumane world with ridicule is to make it tolerable.

You cannot be a positive influence to the "sinners at the table" if you refuse to dine with them.

Some trees grow straight, while others grow gnarled and twisted. Yet none are imperfect. Perfection is merely a perception.

My race is not a better race, it is simply a different race.

If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

False. When things change, I will be happy. True. When I am happy, things will change.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

Not everything will go as you expect in your life. This is why you need to drop expectations, and go with the flow of life.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that Life.

I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Quite often in life, when a tragic event arrives it becomes a springboard for mirroring all other things in one's life that one hasn't come to terms with.

Nobody asked to be born. Life is hard, kinda.

A dog will teach you unconditional love. If you can have that in your life, things won't be too bad.