Quotes About Acceptance

which he attributed to his discomfort with Jews.

In choosing partners, Pierpont wouldn't tolerate a refusal.

It often saves me much annoyance.

I bore it in silence. It does no good to dispute with such a man.

It took Rockefeller time to shed his obsessive concern for Standard Oil and allow himself to be lulled by the restful sea spirit.

What God had taken away, it seems, could never be perfectly restored.

We need to live our experience as it is and with our eyes open. The universe is the way it is, whether we like it or not.

Wherever you are, death will find you, even in the looming tower. O

My sex is me as my mind is me, and nobody will make me feel shame about it.

Here was the secret of this house, the thing it took bravery to face -- that to go on loving someone means to over and over again allow the necessary pain.

My father once told me that a happy ending is just the place where you choose to stop telling the story. So this is where I choose to stop. More things are still going to happen, of course, some good, some bad. Some things never get any better. When people die they stay dead. None of us knows why we love, or why we stop loving, or why everyone we love we lose.

The thing is, you make choices. You do some things and you don't do others and in the end there's not much point in asking what different choices might have gained you, and lost you, unless you have a time machine. You become those choices, you embody them... I'd known I couldn't stay, just as I'd known years before I couldn't be with him, even as I'd gone on pretending I had a choice. I was who I was, and I wanted what I already had.

I was in the machine. My whole life. Then the machine coughed and spat me out. So I thought, OK, if I'm out, I'm out. All the way out. I was a little angry and it was probably an immature reaction. But I got used to it.

People live, and then they die. And as long as they do both things properly, there's nothing much to regret.

I felt like someone else. I felt like a normal person. But I got over it.

We're all atheists. You don't believe in Zeus or Thor or Neptune or Augustus Caesar or Mars or Venus or Sun Ra. You reject a thousand gods. Why should it bother you if someone else rejects a thousand and one?

Facts were to be faced, not fought.

Hopeless is hopeless, and don't ever pretend it ain't

People live, and then they die, and as long as they do both things properly, there's nothing much to regret.

So like I said, what are you running from?" "From being like people, I guess.

People live, and then they die, and as long as they do both things properly, there's nothing much to regret.

I can't worry about something I can't change.

The whole point of drifting was happy passive acceptance of no alternatives. Having alternatives ruined it.

Being dumb wasn't a capital crime. Wasn't a crime at all, in fact. Merely a handicap.