Quotes About Acceptance

misery was nothing to do with objective good fortune. Misery was like bad weather; it was just there, and no number of optimistic comments could make the weather better.

As they left the shop, Mma Ramotswe made amends and told Mma Makutsi that she really thought the blue shoes very beautiful. There was no point in disapproving of a purchase once the deed had been done.

In the past we've been so casual about hurting people, about allowing people to be disparaged because they're different in some way. If you disparage people for what they are, then you're saying something about their nature, about who they are. You're saying You don't count as much as others because of what you are." He paused. "And that's pretty devastating, isn't it?

Whom, then, to love? Whom to believe? Who is the only one that won't betray us? Who measures all deeds, all speeches obligingly by our own foot rule? Who does not sow slander about us? Who coddles us with care? To whom our vice is not so bad? Who never bores us? Unlike a futile phantom-seeker who wastes effort in vain- love your own self, my honorworthy reader. A worthy object! Nothing more amiable surely exists.

oamenii, nefiind niciodat? mulÈ›umiÈ›i de prezent, È™i înv??ând s? aib? puÈ›ine speranÈ›e în viitor, înfrumuseÈ›eaz? cu toate florile închipuirii tot ce a trecut È™i nu se mai întoarce.

The people who exhaust themselves are the ones who run around the base of the mountain shrieking that theirs is the only real, proper way to the top.

I won't think about it now, there's nothing I can do about any of those things.

Imagine what it must be like for teenagers who don't feel they have room to breathe in their own homes. If you are a parent reading this book, you care about your child. If she is quirky, unusual, or nonconformist, ask yourself whether you are doing everything you can to nurture her unusual interests, style, or skills, or whether instead you are directly or subtly pushing her to hide them.

Sometimes Eli believed his mother was embarrassed by him. I swear, my mom thinks if I do one thing differently than the average person, I'm weird, Eli said later. It's like she thinks I'm a freak or something. No matter what I do, it's not 'normal' enough for her.

QUIRK THEORY: Many of the differences that cause a student to be excluded in school are the same traits or real-world skills that others will value, love, respect, or find compelling about that person in adulthood and outside of the school setting.

He didn't realize that simply by mingling among various lunch tables, he was befriending people in different crowds, weaving together the fringes of the cafeteria.

Exclusion is common behavior. But that doesn't make it unchangeable. And that doesn't mean that anything is wrong with the cafeteria fringe.

Some girls, of course, can be both popular and nice. But niceness involves treating others as equals […]

straight white males need supportive communities, too.

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.

I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.

Ah, said the jailer, do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.

Death is the only serious preoccupation in life.

There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

Man upon this earth must expect everything, and ought to face everything.

it is a cruel thing to be forced to say, but, already used to misfortune, I must habituate myself to shame.

What is offered from a generous heart should be accepted generously.