Quotes about Acceptance
Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone? We
— Henry David Thoreau
This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.
— Henry David Thoreau
Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.
— Henry David Thoreau
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors.
— Henry David Thoreau
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.
— Henry David Thoreau
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse.
— Henry David Thoreau
I need thy hate as much as thy love.
— Henry David Thoreau
And here, shipmates, is true and faithful repentance; not clamorous for pardon, but grateful for punishment.
— Herman Melville
Queequeg explained to me that his world was very different from ours. However, one thing he learned quickly, was that within all groups of people there are kind men and there are unkind men.
— Herman Melville
see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.
— Herman Melville
What was sad in the world he did not superficially gainsay; what was glad in it he did not cynically slur; and all which was to him personally enjoyable, he gratefully took to his heart.
— Herman Melville
see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them.
— Herman Melville