#accept

The moonlight rained down on the beach as if to shine a spotlight on my solitude, and I wanted to cry out at it, ‘Why did you take her? You, surrounded by all of your twinkling stars and infinite wonders and darkness. There’s already enough beauty where you are. ↗

— Rachael Wade

#closure #death #denial #grief #loss

Actually, I think most people accept the existence of qualia. ↗

— David Chalmers

#actually #existence #i #i think #most

The word majesty was now dropped; but, with the deepest respect and humility, I was addressed as the count. What could I do? I accepted the title, and from that moment I was known as Count Peter. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#addressed #could #count #deepest #dropped

I'm not talking about the blood ecstasy. I'm talking about my being able to fill that emotion void she has. You know her as well as I do, maybe better. She aches with it. She needs to be accepted for who she is so badly. And I was able to do that. Do you know good that felt? To be able to show someone that, yes, you are someone worth sacrificing for? That you like them for their faults and that you respect them for their ability to rise above them? ↗

— Kim Harrison

#acceptance-of-others #friendship #friendship-true-and-loyal #inspirational #love

I know my theories and findings are hard for you to accept because they are so original and extraordinary. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#because #extraordinary #findings #hard #i

None of my neighbors believe in what I say. They refuse to wear the rings. They will never accept my invention until the day they die. That's what I call the real antichrists. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#believe #call #day #die #i

Cocktail music is accepted as audible wallpaper. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#audible #cocktail #music #wallpaper

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#becomes #between #broken #character #discrepancy

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure. ↗

— George Cukor

#any #failure #successes #unless #you

What we need is not more distrust and division. What we need now is acceptance. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#distrust #division #more #need #now