#accept

Acceptable food rots while we are chased from bins behind restaurants, chased from sleeping on the street, chased from relieving ourselves unless we pay for food or gas, until finally we are so hungry, sleepless, smelly, constipated and beaten-down that we simply die of lack of will to live. ↗

— Jane Siberry

#behind #chased #die #finally #food

Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it. ↗

— Sarah Silverman

#accepting #between #black #black and white #fears

Refusing to grow up is like refusing to accept your limitations. That's why I don't think we'll ever grow up. ↗

— Robert Smith

#ever #grow #grow up #i #like

I was in love with someone very much, but he didn't love me and never would. I had a very difficult time accepting that. But I had hurt him very much, and I could see why he could never love me. ↗

— Susan Smith

#could #difficult #difficult time #had #him

My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money. ↗

— James Green Somerville

#among #amounted #call #father #had

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession. ↗

— Sophocles

#any #better #friend #how #kindness

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#against #allow #because #bit #commend

My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#am #areas #based #difference #exactly

Nothing is harder than to accept oneself. ↗

— Max Frisch

#harder #nothing #oneself #than

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#blacks #bottom #class #institute #massachusetts