Quotes About Acceptance

So Jim is right, then," said Kelly. "You aren't really caretakers at all. You just let happen what is destined to happen.

In the early days of our ascent, being a prolific liar would have gotten you shunned from the tribe.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit shall lure it back to cancel half a line, nor all thy tears wash out a word of it." —Omar Khayyam

poor being seemed like a wonderful . . . person. It wasn't her fault that she looked like a colossal wasp. And it wasn't her problem. It was their problem. And they would have to find a way to overcome it.

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.

Cultures and national belief systems that maintain their integrity can add to diversity. I'm a strong believer in melting pot societies, but enclaves of distinctiveness are important too. As long as every nation, and every diverse group within every nation, is accepting of others.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

We can learn from our past mistakes. But we're not allowed to ruin the now by beating ourselves up over the then.

We seek to better ourselves, and to be accepting of other cultures. But the result is often that we're hypersensitive to the slightest hint of injustice in our own country, while ignoring appalling abuses in others. Many of us even hold these other countries up as shining examples, when the opposite is true.

As the 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.

Who cares if you know for sure that many millions will ignore the law, and thousands will die each year because of it. Same thing with this. The danger of addiction and traffic fatalities will be gladly overlooked and accepted. Cell phones still cause numerous deaths, but nobody has the nerve and audacity to suggest we stop using them." No one spoke for several long seconds.

Schopenhauer quote so insightful. "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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

It was time to admit that his feelings for Megan would be the same, regardless of the presence or absence of the ESP curse that Kelvin Gray's experiments had brought into his life.

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

Death is the final wake-up call.

It's realizing that you've lived your life not thinking about this moment. Pretending that, somehow, you'll never have to face up to the biggest moment of them all – when you finally know that there is no future possibility for change, for exploring other options, for even dreaming about another life. When you can't even retreat into your fantasy about doing it all differently … because you've run out of road.

there are certain tragedies from which we never recover. We may eventually adjust to the sense of loss that pervades every waking hour of the day. We may accept the desperate sadness that colors all perception. We may even learn to live with the loss. But it doesn't mean we will ever fully cauterize the wound or shut away the pain in some steel-tight box and consider it vanquished.

Can we always really look forward, as everyone endlessly advises us to do? Or do we have to hold on to certain key vestiges of our past- as painful, as terrible as they might be- as a way of understanding that there are certain things in life that change us so radically that they stay with us forever? Can we really close the door on that which still haunts us?

Compartmentalize. Accept the Cartesian logic of two separate universes within one life. Accept the contradictory tug between familial responsibility and the illusion of freedom. Accept that – as Dumas said – the chains of marriage are heavy and, as such, they often need to be carried by several people. But never allow the two realms to meet – and never admit anything. Whereas you, Harry, confessed everything … didn't you?

The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!

Why should certain feminists feel entirely fine about men who become women only then to either flaunt their perfect breasts, ape the royal family or take up knitting?