Quotes about Acceptance
You must be fearless enough to give yourself the love you didn't receive.
- Oprah Winfrey
The true power of staying in the now means that you resist projecting what might happen in the future or lamenting past mistakes.
- Oprah Winfrey
It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love
- Oscar Wilde
If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.
- Oscar Wilde
Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?
- Oscar Wilde
I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
- Oscar Wilde
I really don't see what is so romantic about proposing. One may be accepted - one usually is, I believe - and then the excitement is ended. The very essence of romance is uncertainty.
- Oscar Wilde
Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde
The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.
- Confucius
You fix what you can fix and you let the rest go. If there ain't nothin to be done about it it aint even a problem. It's just a aggravation.
- Cormac McCarthy
All the time you spend tryin to get back what's been took from you there's more goin out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.
- Cormac McCarthy
I got what I needed instead of what I wanted and that's just about the best kind of luck you can have.
- Cormac McCarthy