Quotes about Acceptance

When the storm crosses the marsh and sweeps over me where I lie in the ditch unregarded I need no words.

To know the truth—to accept without bitterness

You are you. That is what consoles me for the lack of many things.

How terrible old age was, she thought; shearing off all one's faculties, one by one, but leaving something alive in the centre.

Let us admit in the privacy of our own society that these things sometimes happen. Sometimes women do like women.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing.

We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.

This idea that it's intolerant to object to anyone else's position, hovever, is a complete perversion of the historic understanding of tolrance, which was that one had to have the respect to listen to anyone else's point of view, even one with which one might profoundly disagree. Tolerance did not reject truth claims; it respected them.

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic."