Quotes About Acceptance

Quit crabbing," Bert said mildly. "We're here now, and we've got to like it.

He was ready to die here—today.  There was nowhere left to go. He knew he had reached the end of his trail and he was content. As

A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.

A burned-out, hobble-footed wreck of a cowboy! but, strangely, there were those at the ranch who learned to love him. They knew his story.

We accept the familiar and the usual. We are comfortable with it. We do not want our nice three-dimensional world shattered. We enjoy our certainty, and even Einstein shied from the erratic world of the quantum theory. It suggested a chaos with which he was not prepared to deal.

In reliving the old days and replaying the old games, he avoided a hard look at whatever future might lay ahead of him.

All that was long ago, and a mill does not turn upon water that is past, nor does a ship sail with the winds of yesterday.

I know. But now I don't

We accepted all people as they were and trusted nobody until they had proved themselves trustworthy.

I despise no learning, Sakim.

if his destiny was to die I would not stand in his way.

There is no good time in which to die

But if you understand … where there is understanding there is no hate. Outside

He sat at his desk – last seat, last row – and looked at the chart on the wall next to him. Of course there was no gold star next to his name. He had already done three things wrong: First, he had knocked over a girl and made her cry. Second, he was late getting back to class. And third and worst of all, his name was Bradley Chalkers. As long as his name was Bradley Chalker's, he'd never get a gold star. They don't give gold stars to monsters.

Until he knows he isn't a monster, how is anybody else supposed to know?

But then a miracle happened. A new kid came to school. The new kid couldn't talk. She had no teeth. She was almost bald. She was beautiful. Her name was Mavis Jewls. She was only four days old. She really was a new kid.

If you get bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard, you might as well go into the shade of the oak trees and lie in the hammock. There is nothing anyone can do to you anymore.

You may not believe this, Louis, but I don't have many friends." He put his hand on Louis's shoulder. "You're like a son to me," he said. "And you're a maggot-infested string bean," muttered Louis. "What?" asked Mr. K. "I said, you're a magnificent human being.

Stanley was thankful that there were no racial problems. X-Ray, Armpit, and Zero were black. He, Squid, and Zigzag were white. Magnet was Hispanic. On the lake they were all the same reddish brown color—the color of dirt.

Suck your toes. That's what I do," said Sharie. But Leslie's foot wouldn't reach her mouth. "Well, that's all toes are good for," said Sharie. She put her foot in her mouth and went to sleep. "No," thought Leslie. "They must be good for something.

How odd, I thought, that even though I don't believe it still feels nice to be included.

Now, with no hate group to run, Jerry spent his days playing Mah-jong on his computer

Love covers a multitude of sins…

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.