Quotes About Embracing

Alan Bennett is a very quirkish man. He laughs in a self-effacing way, which stops you getting close. If you embrace him, he'll laugh in an embarrassed way and pull away, not to shrug you off, but because he finds it awkward.

I'm going to grab hold of this night and crack it open, eat the fruit right out of the middle, and throw away the rind.

Taking [Hegel's] philosophy as the point of reference, we could say that emancipation involves making explicit and embracing contradiction, whereas conservatism aims at repressing or eliminating it.

I've been single forever, and, oh God, I love every minute of it. I don't wish to sound offensive, and it always does when women say that, doesn't it?

I've learned that it's OK to be flawed.

Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.

One thing about me: I don't try to live out what ifs.

Wholeness does not mean perfection; it means embracing brokenness as an integral part of life

At any rate, Therese thought, she was happier than she ever had been before. And why worry about defining everything?

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples.

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks or even months over analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've would've happened…or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move the fuck on.

If you're trying to be something you're not, whether it's an age or a certain type of personality, you're just going to be in misery. You have to own who you are, and part of who you are is your age.

Now I'm feeling how I should. Never knew single could feel this good.

I don't mind not knowing exactly where I am—sometimes I enjoy it. There's a sense of freedom in not being able to predict what lies over the next ridge, where the next lake is, and where the next valley leads. I enjoy the release of wandering through what is, from my perspective, uncharted territory. I never intend to lose myself, but when it happens I view it as an opportunity rather than a problem.

Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.

I like you very much. Just as you are.

There could be no regret or mourning in her. No past or future. She lived in the present only, and that was my refuge.

Instead of avoiding attention they invited it

'Neon Future' is, in short, a positive outlook on human progress and technology, looking forward to a bright, colorful utopia. It's embracing the future and looking toward the future in a more optimistic way.

I grew up with that farm-to-table dining before it was sweeping the nation. I do think there's some value to really throwing yourself into food and embracing where it comes from.

Why do we love each other? Because we are what we are, and we're both okay with it.

I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.

I learned about embracing all different genres as opposed to just getting attached to one.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.