Quotes About Acceptance

I wouldn't ask too much of her, I ventured. You can't repeat the past. Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. Why of course you can!

On Shaw's principle that "if you don't get what you like, you better like what you get

So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

Clark, she said softly, I wouldn't change you for the world. You're sweet the way you are. The things that'll make you fail I'll love always-- the living in the past, the lazy days and nights you have, and all your carelessness and generosity.

I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do.

There's only one lesson to be learned form life, anyway, interrupted Gloria, not in contradiction but in a sort of melancholy agreement. What's that? demanded Maury sharply. That there's no lesson to be learned from life.

and will I like being called a jazz baby? --You will love it.

He had reached an age where death no longer has the quality of ghastly surprise

the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will not be brought out for company but it will do to hold crackers late at night or to go into the ice-box with the left overs.

Don't you know you can't do anything about people?

When his son was dressed Mr. Button regarded him with depression. The costume consisted of dotted socks, pink pants, and a belted blouse with a wide white collar. Over the latter waved the long whitish beard, drooping almost to the waist. The effect was not good.

I just think of people, she continued, whether they seem right where they are and fit into a picture. I don't mind if they don't do anything. I don't see why they should; in fact it always astonishes me when people do anything.

Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.

Receding from a grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there.

I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.' 'Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!

For this is wisdom—to love and live,     To take what fate or the gods may give,     To ask no question, to make no prayer,     To kiss the lips and caress the hair,     Speed passion's ebb as we greet its flow,     To have and to hold, and, in time—let go.

there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race

It is not unlikely that she would have accepted any idea encased in this radiant formula—which was perhaps not a formula; it was the reductio ad absurdum of all formulas.

Az ember vagy elfogadja Hollywoodot olyannak, amilyen, mint például én tettem, vagy megvetÅ'en legyint rá, ahogyan olyasmire szokás, amit nem értünk.

I wouldn't ask too much of her," I ventured. "You can't repeat the past." "Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment

The thing to do is to forget about the heat,' said Tom impatiently. 'You make it ten times worse by crabbing about it.

There's only one lesson to be learned from life, anyway, interrupted Gloria, not in contradiction but in a sort of melancholy agreement. What's that? demanded Maury sharply. That there's no lesson to be learned from life.