Quotes About Acceptance

I think that's the true litmus test for someone who has become closer to Jesus: their heart is more loving, accepting, childlike, less believing that they have all the answers and more believing in Him.

You shouldn't hate your body parts. I have lovely little ears and eyelashes so long they sometimes get tangled in the machinery when I have my eyes tested.

Maybe I haven't been tested, but I have no fear of death at all. I was with Allen Ginsberg during the last year of his life, and he called all his friends and said, 'I'm on my way out, and it's kind of exciting.' I see it as kind of exciting, too.

In high school I was the dog, always, and I never have felt comfortable or right in my body, and part of my whole exhibitionist thing has probably been a way of testing to see whether or not I really was this repulsive creature that I felt like for so long.

There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying.

Worry is putting question marks where God has put periods.

RED SEA RULE 1 Realize that God means for you to be where you are.

Keep your hair on, mate,' Kevin said chirpily as he jumped off the table. 'Oh wait, you haven't got any, have you …

I don't care if you're the grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan,

A man can't be angry at his own time without suffering some damage.

ONE must sometimes believe what one cannot understand. That is the method of the scientist as well as the mystic: faced with a universe which must be endless and infinite, he accepts it, although he cannot really imagine it. For there is no picture in our minds of infinity; somewhere, at the furthermost limits of thought, we never fail to plot its end. Yet—if there is no end? Or if, at the end, we are only back at the beginning again?

You want to know something? You're all right, Andrew. You and Sara and Sean. You're all all right, have been all through these last few days, and I won't forget it." "Oh, sure." He put on his best Cockney accent. "We'ave been blooming wonders, we have. Three right ream and rorty coves." "Well, you have been—in spite of that shoful accent that you shouldn't even try.

Try an' try," he said, "but when it comes day's end, I can't wash the pig off me. And your mother never complains. Not once, in all these years, has she ever said that I smell strong. I said once to her that I was sorry." "What did Mama say?" "She said I smelled of honest work, and that there was no sorry to be said or heard.

No matter how tender you care about people, I was discovering, you'll not alter anyone. Best afford them the noblest gift that a man can offer his neighbor. Acceptance.

Perhaps philosophers need arguments so powerful they set up reverberations in the brain: if the person refuses to accept the conclusion, he dies.

Even after Marsh and Beams proved Weiss wrong in 1946, it took many more years for the scientific community to accept the fact that neuron fibers do orient themselves along a current flow. Today the possible use of electricity to guide nerve growth is one of the most exciting prospects in regeneration research.

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.

When you're expecting bad news you have to be prepared for it a long time ahead so that when the telegram comes you can already pronounce the syllables in your mouth before opening it.

I've stopped apologizing to myself for having this great period of success and financial acceptance.

I]nsikten om genetikens betydelse, och om hur slumpmässiga de miljöbetingade influenserna är, kan göra det lättare för oss att acceptera och till och med njuta av att vi är som vi är, rent genetiskt. I stället för att sträva efter att vara någon som vi placerar på en befängt hög piedestal, kan det vara värt att pröva att söka efter sitt genetiska jag och försöka trivas med sig själv.

Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.

Only if I am going to die, I should prefer to die as I have lived, drunkenly.

purging the past does not mean forgetting. It means releasing.