Quotes About Acceptance

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

Scientology is not a white religion. It is not just for white people.

The idea that no one is perfect is a view most commonly held by people with no grandchildren.

Life would be a great deal easier if dead things had the decency to remain dead.

First, only God, through our relationship with Christ, can ever completely satisfy our intimacy needs for being unconditionally known and accepted. The intimate lovemaking between a man and a woman (as good and complete as that may feel) is only a taste of our ultimate love relationship with God.

Life isn't for everybody.

Mark Finley, San Fransisco. We--as homosexuals--have been systematically denied our own history. Our own past. Perhaps that's why we're so eager to embrace a martyr, even when she's made of glass?

There is no point in driving yourself mad trying to stop yourself going mad. You might just as well give in and save your sanity for later.

What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer.

Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.

This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

Behavior precedes belief - that is, most people must engage in a behavior before they accept that it is beneficial; then they see the results, and then they believe that it is the right thing to do....implementation precedes buy-in; it does not follow it.

It is hard to convey the night-waking, body-trembling experience of putting a creation of one's soul out into the world for acceptance and rejection.

Death is a gift, so long as it is nature's hand.

We look away until we have no choice. Then we examine them, remember them, and look away again, as if we're not meant to think too much about them, but to live. Just live and forget.

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

I realized that once people are broken in certain ways they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. " —Arthur Schopenhauer "We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct." —Niels Bohr, Nobel Laureate & Quantum Physics Pioneer

we're not allowed to ruin the now by beating ourselves up over the then.

German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer had famously expressed, "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.