Quotes about Acceptance

Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.

We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular a.. that does so whom we can't tolerate

In the adversity of our best friends we often find something that does not displease us.

If I want to go to a party with a few male friends, it doesn't mean I'm gay.

I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

The ultimate lesson all of us have to learn is unconditional love, which includes not only others but ourselves as well.

It's easy to see the negative, but every person has something great about them. Develop a habit of looking for the good.

Things cannot always go your way. Learn to accept in silence the minor aggravations, cultivate the gift of taciturnity and consume your own smoke with an extra draught of hard work, so that those about you may not be annoyed with the dust and soot of your complaint.

From my perspective, there's no reason to be afraid of aging, because if you age, you're lucky! The alternative is death.

I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.