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Quotes about Acceptance

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
- William Faulkner
A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.
- William Faulkner
Innocence is innocent not because it rejects but because it accepts; is innocent not because it is impervious and invulnerable to everything, but because it is capable of accepting anything and still remaining innocent; innocent because it foreknows all and therefore doesn't have to fear and be afraid.
- William Faulkner
be.—Yes he thought Between grief and nothing I will take grief.
- William Faulkner
There is a limit to what a child can accept, assimilate; not to what it can believe because a child can believe anything, given time, but to what it can accept, a limit in time, in the very time which nourishes the believing of the incredible.
- William Faulkner
I love, I will accept no substitute; ...; if happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.
- William Faulkner
I see all the while how folks could say he was queer, but that was the very reason couldn't nobody hold it personal. It was like he was outside of it too, same as you, and getting mad at it would be kind of like getting mad at a mud-puddle that splashed you when you stepped in it.
- William Faulkner
I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it.
- William Faulkner
And you came home? To die. Yes. To die? Yes. To die.
- William Faulkner
The Lord can see into the heart. If it is His will that some folks has different ideas of honesty from other folks, it is not my place to question His decree. "I reckon
- William Faulkner
Just like folks. Put off as long as she could having to be brave, knowing all the time that sooner or later she would have to be brave once so she could keep on calling herself a dog, and knowing beforehand what was going to happen when she done it.
- William Faulkner
I reckon she's right. I reckon if there's ere a man or woman anywhere that He could turn it all over to and go away with His mind at rest, it would be Cora. And I reckon she would make a few changes, no matter how He was running it. And I reckon they would be for man's good. Leastways, we would have to like them. Leastways, we might as well go on and make like we did.
- William Faulkner