Quotes About Acceptance

A man may do worse than make what the world calls a not wholly happy marriage.

My advice for telling someone else's story is to try not to consciously bend the story in any particular direction - to listen with an open mind, to include the good with the bad, to attempt to quell one's biases and allow the person you're writing about to emerge as wholly as possible, warts and all.

According to me, marriage is a man-made custom, which ultimately gives acceptance to a relationship for the society. But for me, the moment you lose your heart to someone and you wholly and solely want to be with that person, that's marriage.

I don't dislike anything, but I am definitely finding the ageing process 'interesting' and not wholly comfortable.

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.

If we were faultless we should not be so much annoyed by the defects of those with whom we associate.

I really don't care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

I would not change anything I've done or what I've lived, and with whom I have lived it.

What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.

With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?

Each of us has the choice to attend the church we want to, or none at all. Separation of church and state allows for religions to have their own set of rules as to whom they will accept and who they won't, and the practices they support and the ones they don't. They will continue to be able to do so.

Why is it that the very people who have fought so hard and so long for the simple entitlement to love whom they choose to love are the very ones denied that right by those who routinely take their vows for granted?

The physician's duty is not to stave off death or return patients to their old lives, but to take into our arms a patient and family whose lives have disintegrated and work until they can stand back up and face - and make sense of - their own existence.

Let others hail the rising sun: I bow to that whose course is run.

Those whose approval you seek most give you the least.

In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and Romans also held the view that acceptance is the beginning of wisdom.

I'm a shy person whose very presence has become a confrontation. I think that's true of a lot of queer people.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here.

Nothing ends nicely, that's why it ends.

We should never forget the inevitable, as we will lose everything eventually. So, why fret over any kind of security? The idea is to just fly and experience it all while it lasts.

I never think about the past. Why waste time thinking about something I cannot change.