Quotes About Acceptance

An alternative method is this: from time to time give yourself a day on which you say "Yes" to every request made of you which is at all reasonable. The more you tend to retire from society in your leisure, the more valuable this will be.

It took longer for the fork to gain acceptance in England because it was thought to be a feminine utensil. Thomas Coryate, an English traveler and philosopher who had been to Italy and France, published a book in 1611 that included the Italian custom of eating with a fork. He declared himself the first man in London to eat with a fork.

Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

Our problems stem from our acceptance of this filthy, rotten system.

The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them!

My son took many years to learn the simple truth. You cannot love any one person adequately until you have made friends with the rest of the human race also. Adult love demands qualities which cannot be learned living in a vacuum of resentment.

integral sayings of Zen Buddhism is, 'Do the best you can and then walk on.

to every life there eventually came a moment when one had to accept the fact that the shape, the pattern, the direction of the future was entirely out of one's hands, to be decided unalterably by chance, by fate or by God.

Let bygones be bygones, but we cannot and should not forget.

If I had a girl, I'd want her to know that she can be anything she wants and that she doesn't have to rely on her looks or clothes or hair or make-up to define who she is or to get respect from other people. I'd want her to know she has a right to be respected or noticed because she was born. I'm not talking about all the girl power nonsense, I'm talking about my girl growing up knowing she has the right to be treated decently simply because she was born.

Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that build up of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out.

am. This is the life I was meant to live simply because it's the one I have lived.

You can never compete with someone's first love.

Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that build up of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out. - My Bestfriend's Girl -

I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more.

Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.

Four be the things I'd been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.

we can love someone without understanding that person.

As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less Who goes to bed with whom.

Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.