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When you accept that there is no success greater than inner-peace and contentment, you instantly qualify yourself for more success.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Begin accepting the gift now, and have every beautiful and good thing in life — and then share.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Accepting conflict brings you closer to knowing peace.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Blame anchors us into the past
—  a place we cannot change. Acceptance frees us to the future.
It takes courage to say goodbye. To stare at a thing lost and know it is gone forever. Some tears are iron forged.
— Jay Kristoff, Kinslayer
Her constant phrase, "Go with God", had puzzled me a good deal. Suddenly it became clear. It was a revelation - acceptance. It filled me with joy. Accept life, the world, Spirit, God, call it what you will, and all else will follow.
— Jennifer Worth, The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
Would the people in her life still love her if they knew the whole truth about her? Perhaps, but would they love her the same?
— Lacey Alexander, Bad Girl by Night
But looking at you was nothing like looking at those pictures. When I first saw,” he said, looking down at her chest, then up again to meet her eyes, “it hurt, almost a physical pain. Since you finished chemo, you've gotten so strong again. Sometimes I almost forget what you've been through. But seeing your scars, they reminded me of your hurt. How you've been cut apart. What you gave up.”It was important, not keeping herself back from him, putting parts of herself off limits. But it stung when he sank down to brush his lips over the two biggest scars.“But your scars are beautiful. I mean, I look at them, and I want to kiss, I want to touch, I feel this tenderness for them. You know how when you love someone, when you've been with them a long time and you know all the little lines and curves and planes of their body, how you look at little parts of them—the corner of their mouth, the back of their hand, the little crease where their earlobe meets their jaw—and you can feel like you're in love with that little piece of them? Maybe soon, I'll look at your scars like that. But right now, it's this feeling I've never had for a part of someone's body, before, because they promise me you're well. That you get to live. That we get to have a long life together.”Her love for him was swelling up in her chest, the way it did sometimes, an ache she wanted to hold on to.
— Varian Krylov, Hurt
I learned that, while rejection is the name of the game, I’m always going to be exactly what someone is looking for, eventually. Whether it is looks or personality, be it in the professional world or the dating world, what others have over me is irrelevant, because there’s always someone out there looking for an exact type of someone – a someone that I can completely fulfill. I’m not going to be everyone’s ideal, so focusing on the times I get passed over – be it the modeling industry or in real life – is a colossal waste of time.
— Abby Rosmarin, I'm Just Here for the Free Scrutiny: One Model's Tale of Insanity and Inanity in the Wonderful World of Fashion
I don’t know what I did to deserve someone as smart and beautiful as you.”"You were you. And maybe that was enough.
— Michael Haley, Lost on the Edge of Forever
For many years, I searched for this connection outside of myself but always to no avail. It was only when I turned inward did I find this power.
— David W. Earle
Forgive me, my sons. I've been defeated by this despicable idiot. This is as far as I go.I leave everything to you.You have my gratitude. Farewell, my sons.
— Whitebeard
When it all comes crashing downTry to understand your meaningsNo one said it would be easyThis living, it ain't easy, ohYou were sewn togetherwith a tapestry of moleculesA billion baby galaxiesand wide open spacesAnd everything you need is hereEverything you fear is hereAnd it's holding you upIt just keeps holding you upWhen you came up from the groundFrom a million little piecesYou're a pretty human being
— Cloud Cult
I, like you, was not depraved or defected before birth but created to be magnificent, a wonderful and freeing realization - simple but explosive.
— David W. Earle
We can be safe and live with other defined truths exemplified by a capital “T” or we can change and with our limited time experience truth with a small “t,” seeking our own understanding, which can change with new awareness.
— David W. Earle
And I understood why he didn’t need friends or to be accepted at our shitty racist high school, because he had his music, and that was so much better than anything we had to offer.
— Matthew Quick, Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock
The thing is, when you’re with someone like Poppu - someone who sees straight through your battered facade and loves every bit of you, someone who makes you laugh until you pee your pants, someone who grabs you in a hug exactly when you need it - you don’t crave any kind of approval from strangers. You don’t need to “matter” in the world, because you already matter to the only person who counts.
— Elizabeth Fama, Plus One
You ask a certain question again and again, in a sincere fashion, and the answer appears. But, in my experience, at least, that answer arrives according to it's own mysterious celestial timing, and often in disguise. And it comes in a way you're not prepared for, or don't want, or can't at first, accept.
— Roland Merullo, Breakfast with Buddha
...you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.
— Per Petterson, I Curse the River of Time
Acceptance. It sounds so gentle; you foolishly imagine you might try it. As if you could choose. You don’t choose. You plummet into acceptance, because the floor has collapsed beneath your feet.
— Dawn Downey, Stumbling Toward the Buddha: Stories about Tripping over My Principles on the Road to Transformation
Why couldn't he see the tragedy of what was unfolding? Was it because it was too painful, or was it because holding onto hope and dying was better than living if it meant you were forced to see the world for what it was?
— Chris Dietzel, A Different Alchemy
I have learned a great deal from other Witches, Wiccans, Odinists, Voodoo and Hoodou practitioners, Druids and many others who consider themselves Pagan. The one common thread is that every single person has been nonjudgmental. Isn't this what it's all about, acceptance? Are we not here to design our own spiritual path? --Icinia
— Arin Murphy-Hiscock, Out of the Broom Closet: 50 True Stories of Witches Who Found and Embraced the Craft
It is not giving up, it is accepting. And the light will enter. Always does.
— Kamal Ravikant, Live Your Truth
There are some things in life that just are. They are meant to be, and to fight against them is to ensure your own loss.
— Theresa  Smith, Somebody I Used to Know
Perhaps that's a smile on Delia's face-but Delia's half skull turns every expression into a leer. She says, "Your uncle had a talent, kid. He made families wherever he went.
— Daryl Gregory, Raising Stony Mayhall
We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate
—  it oppresses.
To let go means to give up coercing, resisting, or struggling, in exchange for something more powerful and wholesome which comes out of allowing things to be as they are without getting caught up in your attraction to or rejection of them, in the intrinsic stickiness of wanting, of liking and disliking. It's akin to letting your palm open to unhand something you have been holding on to.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
Ladies, part of loving your mate is accepting him exactly as he is!
— Pamela Cummins, Psychic Wisdom on Love and Relationships
The spirit of rejection finds its support in the consciousness of separateness
—  the spirit of acceptance finds its base in the consciousness of unity.
Scientists gladly accept any new truth demonstrated by evidence, that is, proved by the very law of the cosmos. Not so with any new conceptions of religion; these are fought by the use of persecution and venom. Many of the current religious beliefs literally carried into practice would stampede humanity into the old jungle ideas and habits.
— Luther Burbank
At the end of the day, that's what a family is - a group of different people who accept each other.
— Sara Sheridan
He knew at the same time that this stricture of acceptance (by which what we must love is made into what we can love) would eventually be a part of himself
— Djuna Barnes, Nightwood
Give me, if you will, prayers;Or let me know dryness,An abudance of devotion,Or if not, then barrenness.In you alone, Sovereign Majesty,I find my peace,What do you want of me?Yours I am, fo ryou I was born:What do you want of me?
— Teresa of Ávila
There was no single gay point of view. Like skin color or gender or any of those arbitrary, sometimes artificial, difference sexual orientation didn't make us all the same. But it did affect us. It had to.
— Kelly J. Cogswell, Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian Avenger
One of my professors in college used to say As the wise man said, Do or do not, there is no try, but the advice columns generally say the opposite. If someone promises to try, and you're happy with that, don't push. It can backfire. You can get yourself in a lot of trouble asking for too much.
— Jael McHenry
And now I am sitting in the graveyard, staring at two headstones, and feeling good and bad at the same time. The way we do when our own lives continue to unfold, but the lives that gave us life and others that gave our lives meaning have ended.
— Julene Bair, The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning
Chase and I are in this for the long haul. I've stood before him and he's stood before me. And this is what it's all come down to: Chase Gartner is my future, my forever. And I, I am his.
— S.R. Grey, I Stand Before You
I've realized the quirky things that make you different are what make you beautiful
— Lily Collins
All of us sport an invisible sign around our necks -- “AS IS.” It means, take me as I am. I may not become what you want me to be. And I’m far, far from perfect. But I have some great qualities, too, as well as my share of faults. You will have to take me “AS IS” and I’ll take you that way, too.
— Steve Goodier
I swear from the bottom of my heart I want to be healed. I want to be like other men, not this outcast whom nobody wants.
— E.M. Forster, Maurice
The world is a place of constant change. If we are open and ready to consider everything while remaining unbiased, we will be ready to accept these changes and utilize them to improve our lives.
— Daniel Willey
Whatever happens, love that.
— Matt Kahn
Many rulers would have spent the morning complaining loudly about the cold and the discomfort, as if their complaints would actually serve to alleviate the situation and as if their attendants should be able to do something about it. Not the emperor. He accepted the situation knowing that he could do nothing to change the weather. Best to endure it without making life more difficult for those around him.
— John Flanagan, The Emperor of Nihon-Ja
The truth, for me, is I do accept everyone. I believe people are going to be who they are going to be. Moreover, I strongly disagree that it is my place in life to judge who they are. Or to attempt to mold them into whom I believe they should become.
— Paula Heller Garland
Mid-range, androgynous voice. I first thought that Solaris was a guy. Then a girl. Maybe. Then I gave up trying to figure out which. It would become obvious at some point, or not.
— Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine
Acceptance is the sense of belonging.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I shall not be afraid of anything I haven't even seen yet. If Fairyland-Below is a terrible place, well, I shall feel sorry for it. But it might be a wonderful place! Just because the wild striped cats don't know what diamonds are doesn't mean they're vicious; it just means they have wildcat sorts of wants and wealth and ways of thinking, and perhaps I could learn them and be a little wilder and cattier and stripier myself.
— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There
Love is an unconditional state of being.
— Asa Don Brown, Waiting to Live
Loving someone who does not love you back hurts,alot, i know.It is liking seeing these pair of shoes at theretail store which do not fit you.Chances are, if you buy them knowing theyare a small size,you will have blisters and probably hurt your toes.What i mean is,not everyone will love you back,therefore, never shove your love downanyone's throat.Accept it and appreciate the ones that do love you.
— Nomthandazo Tsembeni
Love me as I am, sweet one, for I shall never be better.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, Wives and Daughters
I, too, am a drum major for justice. I will continue to speak out-LOUD and PROUD- as long as gay youth are killing themselves because someone instilled in them they are not enough. Well, baby, you're more than enough. You were molded with the same care and precision as your heterosexual counterparts. You are unique. God has a special plan for you that only you can fulfill. Live your life!
— J'son M. Lee
For me- and for everybody else, probably- this is my first experience growing old, and the emotions I'm having, too, are all first-time feelings. If it were something I'd experienced before, then I'd be able to understand it more clearly, but this is the first time, so I can't. For now all I can do is put off making any detailed judgments and accept things as they are. Just like I accept the sky, the clouds, and the river. And there's also something kind of comical about it all, something you don't want to discard completely.
— Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
This need to be right has put a huge burden on me, one that I never deserved to have to carry. Part of it, I know, is cultural--in this age of information at a moment's notice, we've come to expect people to have answers--the right answers--at the drop of a hat. I feel very fortunate that over the last decade or so I've been able to leave the need to be right behind me and move on with my life with a more healthy perspective. I'm now willing not just to admit that I'm wrong, but also to stick my neck out with ideas or thoughts that may be wrong. The possibility of being wrong no longer threatens my emotional well-being; if I'm wrong, I'm wrong, and I learn from that.
— Tom Walsh
When you stop pretending to be who you are not and start being yourself, there is a big risk: significant people in your life may not accept you and leave. Yet, when you stop being yourself and pretend to be who you are not, there is a much bigger risk: the people who would accept and love you just as you are, may not accept you and leave.
— Franco Santoro
I can't promise you that I won't hurt you," he said softly after it became clear I wasn't going to speak. Sincerity flowed from him like water in a river and it nearly broke my heart. "I can't say that I won't ever do something stupid, or forget your birthday or our anniversary or your favorite flavor of ice cream. I'm fallible; I'm gonna make mistakes. But I can promise you that I won't lie to you, and I'll never cheat on you. Your Cat is a part of you. She makes you who you are. I can't ignore that, and even if I could, I wouldn't want to. All you need to do is trust me, Riley. That's all I'm asking.
— Fiona Skye, Faerie Tales
Goths do not hate the world. They just learned to accept the world that refuses to understand them.
— enna snow
It amazes me that we are all on Twitter and Facebook. By "we" I mean adults. We're adults, right? But emotionally we're a culture of seven-year-olds. Have you ever had that moment when are you updating your status and you realize that every status update is just a variation on a single request: "Would someone please acknowledge me?
— Marc Maron, Attempting Normal
...when you let go of your expectations, when you accept life as it is, you're free.To hold on is to be serious and uptight. To let go is to lighten up.
— Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life
There was no going back to the way things were, because all you ever got was the way things are.
— Sarah Ockler, The Book of Broken Hearts
I was always reaching for love, but it turns out love doesn't involve reaching. I was always dreaming of the big love, the ultimate love, the love that would sweep me off my feet or 'break open the hard shell of my lesser self' (Daisaku Ikeda). The love that would bring on my surrender. The love that would inspire me to give everything. As I lay there, it occurred to me that while I had been dreaming of this big love, this ultimate love, I had, without realizing it, been giving and receiving love for most of my life. As with the trees that were right in front of me, I had been unable to value what sustained me, fed me, and gave me pleasure. And as with the trees, I was so busy waiting for and imagining and reaching and dreaming and preparing for this huge big love that I had totally missed the beauty and perfection of the soft-boiled eggs and Bolivian quinoa.
— Eve Ensler, In the Body of the World
We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're all less than perfect.
— Richard Carlson, Don't Sweat the Small Stuff ... and it's all small stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life
It wasn't a perfect body but it was the body she deserved. Not just from every bar of chocolate or bag of crisps or laden plate of food that she'd eaten. This body was also testament to all the hours in the gym and cycling up hills on her bike and glugging down two litres of water a day and learning to love vegetables and fruits that didn't come as optional extra with a pastry crust. She'd earned this body.This was her body and she had to stop giving it such a hard time.
— Sarra Manning, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
The land of possibility is a better place to make your home than the realm of expectation will ever be
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
When you don't fit in, be sure to stand out.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
Life itself is the best (and the only) timekeeper.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Happiness in something you need to search for, It comes from inside. You can pull it out from inside by satisfaction and acceptance.
— Vijay Dhameliya
Acceptance, she thinks, is the harshest lesson life teaches and the one most important to learn.
— Rose Tremain, Music & Silence
Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person would do.
— Keith Johnstone
What is a truth and what is a lie? Is truth the mutually accepted part of a lie, or is lie a mutually denied part of truth?
— Saurabh Sharma
When you are not accepted, dare to be exceptional.
— Johnnie Dent Jr.
Sometimes, I present myself as an expert and talk non-sense. To be honest, passing out hugs is far better than passing judgements. TRY THIS!
— Saurabh Sharma
The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom.
— Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
I guess when you’re trying to find all the parts of yourself, it’s difficult to be with someone who’s already fully intact.
— Cecelia Ahern, The Time of My Life
What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?
— Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
We must be free, but to have real freedom, you must be wild and free yourself.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
On this sacred path of Radical Acceptance, rather than striving for perfection, we discover how to love ourselves into wholeness.
— Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
Acceptance. We want someone to look at us, and really see us—our physical flaws, our personality quirks, our insecurities. And we want them to be okay with every square inch of who we are. We’re always afraid we might be too needy or too much work. We put all these limitations on ourselves and our relationships because we’re afraid that we’re not really loved. That we’re not really accepted. We hide little pieces of ourselves because we think that might be the one thing that finally drives away the person who’s supposed to love us.
— Michele Bardsley, Cross Your Heart
The world you once knew is no more for you.
— Travis Luedke, The Nightlife: New York
Things you call wrong, describe your levels of acceptance and understanding..
— Himmilicious
Discovery requires courage and acceptance that we are not in control, and that the future is uncertain.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Understanding is the first step of accepting!
— ey ramos
America was never designed to be fixed forever, but was meant to be fluid and evolving.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
You unlock the door to greater levels of excellence and success when you accept who you are. It is from the point of acceptance that we can create a masterful life.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
We're all strange in our own strange way.
— Mark  Donnelly
When you have acceptance of who you are there is no need to discuss your past.
— Mark  Donnelly
If you have not been served personally by caring hands in your own life, do not be bitter, but instead, ask yourself who you can now serve.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Love heals violence and all its sources
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Why when people are on their deathbed, they finally come to terms with life?
— Anthony Liccione
If you go to war with your mind, you will always be at war.
— T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken
Do you want love, or do you want control?
— T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken
What America is, to me, is a guy doesn't want to buy, you let him not buy, you respect his not buying. A guy has a crazy notion different from your crazy notion, you pat him on the back and say, Hey pal, nice crazy notion, let's go have a beer. America, to me, should be shouting all the time, a bunch of shouting voices, most of them wrong, some of them nuts, but please, not just one droning glamorous reasonable voice.
— George Saunders, In Persuasion Nation
Is it love, or is it attachment? Do you want to love her, or do you want to control her?
— T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken
When I saw you on the stairs before, I’d forgotten how beautiful you are,’ he whispered against her skin.‘Spotty, not beautiful,’ she corrected gently, running her finger along his crooked nose. ‘Now you, you’re beautiful.’‘I even missed your inferiority complex.’ Max smiled and shifted against her.‘Not being inferior. It’s a point of fact. I’m covered in zits,’ Neve said and she didn’t know why she felt the need to share that with Max but then she was glad that she had because he was kissing each one of the angry red bumps along her forehead and chin and cheeks, even though a few of them were starting to suppurate. ‘Don’t do that, it’s completely unhygienic. Kiss my mouth instead.
— Sarra Manning, You Don't Have to Say You Love Me
Why hold secrets? Why harbor anything? Let me just share everything with you. Let me just talk. Let me let go of the censor that is within me ... I’m tired of trying to be someone other than who I am.
— T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken
Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed.
— T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken
Sometimes in life there's no problem and sometimes there solution. Within this space - between these apparent poles - life flows.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
If I simply do my best, I cannot complain even if I am taken to hell.
— Shinichi Suzuki, Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education
The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this.
— Anthony Liccione
You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.
— Bryant McGill, Voice of Reason
Infectious smile has infected tears The laughter strikes with spears I am not dear and they are not sincere Feeling fear I must perform For when I stop the stage is gone
— Louis Cecile, Thoughts in Rhyme
They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303
— Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
When you focus on someone's disability you'll overlook their abilities, beauty and uniqueness. Once you learn to accept and love them for who they are, you subconsciously learn to love yourself unconditionally.
— Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried:  A Memoir
I don’t want there to be things you “love about me”, I want you to love “all of me”.
— Mathias Malzieu, La Mécanique du cœur
You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things like possessiveness (your own) and a broader acceptance of the pains and the losses.
— Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes
Let the water flow beneath the bridge; let men be men, that is to say, weak, vain, inconstant, unjust, false, and presumptuous; let the world be the world still; you cannot prevent it. Let every one follow his own inclination and habits; you cannot recast them, and the best course is, to let them be as they are and bear with them. Do not think it strange when you witness unreasonableness and injustice; rest in peace in the bosom of God; He sees it all more clearly than you do, and yet permits it. Be content to do quietly and gently what it becomes you to do, and let everything else be to you as though it were not.
— François Fénelon, Spiritual Letters
Acceptance means events can make it through you without resistance
— Michael Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
When I accept myself, I am freed from the burden of needing you to accept me.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.
— Alain de Botton
Throw your arms around the world and hold on tight. But not through fear ...but because of your love.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
For people who like that sort of thing, that's the sort of thing they like.
— William F. Buckley Jr.
Note that acceptance is different from approval. Acceptance is simply saying, “It is so.
— Margie Warrell, Find Your Courage!
Shuki’s wisdom: "Sometimes things happen, and the only choice you have is to accept it, and learn to make a life anyway.
— M.A. McRae
What is the secret of your serenity?” a student asked Sophia	“Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable,” she replied.
— David W. Jones, For the Love of Sophia: Wisdom Stories from Around the World and Across the Ages
What's more, the kaleidoscopic blend of gender-variant and gender-typical traits that characterizes gay people is exactly what enables us to make our own unique contributions to society. It's the reason that we should be valued, celebrated, and welcomed into society rather than merely being tolerated. The aim should be to foster acceptance of gay people as we are, in all our rich diversity and not to seek acceptance by shoe-horning ourselves into conformity with the straight majority.
— Simon LeVay, Gay, Straight, and the Reason Why: The Science of Sexual Orientation
I know inside that there is more to life than this mortal coil. It's a very shallow minded person who thinks that someone is born and dies and that's it. I haven't gone through thirty odd years of suffering, and doing what I do, and looking at other people who are born and die with cancer, with AIDS, with whatever, and think, 'well, what was the point of that?'. There is a point to everything, and we're here to learn, and it's just a learning curve and we'll move on, and this is just a shell. It's just I've got a dodgy shell.
— Jonny Kennedy
One person simply can’t be all things to another person – sexually or otherwise—and unmet needs, unfulfilled desire, and unexplored possibilities are prices we pay to be in LTRs (long –term relationships). Monogamous, polyamorous, Femdom, or whatever: All couples people walk around feeling a little unfulfilled. (Single people, too). Because no one gets everything they want.
— Dan Savage
When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilience, they are eventually embraced and even cherished.
— Louise Erdrich, The Master Butchers Singing Club
Some days we lose all at once and somedays we get all back at once. But either way,Accept it.
— Diarian Hersi
Mine own people do not care for me, John Carter; I am too unlike them. It is a sad fate, since I must live my life amongst them.
— Edgar Rice Burroughs, A Princess of Mars
That empty sick feeling came over me again. In a big school it was easy to fade into the background, but I didn’t know if that would be possible here. I tried not to think about it anymore.
— Dana Michelle Burnett, Spiritus
Is it your background, then?" Lord Franton smiled and shook his head. "That need not worry you. You're a wizard now; what you were before does not matter to me.""Yes, it does," Kim said softly. "Because part of the time you're sorry about it, and part of the time you think it makes me interesting, and part of the time you ignore it. But you never forget it.
— Patricia C. Wrede
What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
You need to accept your yesterday, so u can be happy on your today, risk and failures will always be there, and so is success.
— Candy bustillo
Mary watched the sunset from her carriage window, realizing that such beauty could never last. Life was a golden glory that faded in the wink of an eye. Life was a village fair that only lasted for a single day. As the carriage rattled along, rocking her like a babe in arms, Mary felt very old and wise. She found that she didn't mind being taken back to the castle, to a caring captivity that was filled with comforts and kindness. And she also found that she couldn't keep her eyes open.
— Margaret George, Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles
When you can no longer differentiate between the insanity spewed onto the blank page, and the madness evident in the all-but shattered mirror...that's when you know you're doing it right.
— Dave Matthes
Count Ayakura’s abstraction persisted. He believed that only a vulgar mentality was willing to acknowledge the possibility of catastrophe. He felt that taking naps was much more beneficial than confronting catastrophes. However precipitous the future might seem, he learned from the game of kemari that the ball must always come down. There was no call for consternation. Grief and rage, along with other outbursts of passion, were mistakes easily committed by a mind lacking in refinement. And the Count was certainly not a man who lacked refinement.Just let matters slide. How much better to accept each sweet drop of the honey that was Time, than to stoop to the vulgarity latent in every decision. However grave the matter at hand might be, if one neglected it for long enough, the act of neglect itself would begin to affect the situation, and someone else would emerge as an ally. Such was Count Ayakura’s version of political theory.
— Yukio Mishima, Spring Snow
A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the essence and uniqueness of others, when we subscribe to that religious philosophy of life that insists that God has made each man and woman an individual sacred personality endowed with a specific temperament, created with differing needs, hungers, dreams. This is a variegated, pluralistic world where no two stars are the same and every snowflake has its own distinctive pattern. God apparently did not want a regimented world of sameness. That is why creation is so manifold. So it is with us human beings. Some are born dynamic and restless; others placid and contemplative…One man’s temperament is full throated with laughter; another’s tinkles with the sad chimes of gentle melancholy. Our physiques are different, and that simple difference oftentimes drives us into conflicting fulfillment of our natures, to action or to thought, to passion or to denial, to conquest or to submission. There is here no fatalism of endowment. We can change and prune and shape the hedges of our being, but we must rebel against the sharp shears being wielded by other hands, cutting off the living branches of our spirits in order to make our personalities adornments for their dwellings.
— Joshua Loth Liebman
Allow yourself to celebrate your sense of freedom , your capacity to make a choice and your strength in facing the truth. Not everyone has the courage to do so, even if it hurts……Knowing is KEY to acceptance.
— Abby Espiritu
In the West, they will either accept or reject. In the East, they will always accept also provide guidance and patience.
— Santosh Kalwar
Nowadays 'invisibility' was supposed to be the big problem, but the way I saw it was, all that mattered was to be visible to yourself.
— Emma Donoghue
I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.
— Sylvia Plath
Do you drink?""Of course,I just said I was a writer.
— Stephen King
The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.
— Samuel Beckett
As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.
— John Green
Be yourself. The world worships the original.
— Jean Cocteau
And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking. 
— Nora Roberts
To be a writer you have to write -- and no academic degree is going to do the writing for you. 
— Michelle Richmond
She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess.
— Christopher Moore, Bloodsucking Fiends
You want to be a writer, don't know how or when? Find a quiet place, use a humble pen.
— Paul Simon
Only a person with the true heart of a dictionary-writer would be lying in bed, three days after being stabbed in the gut, worrying about his P's.
— Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue
Come writers and criticsWho prophesize with your penAnd keep your eyes wideThe chance won't come againAnd don't speak too soonFor the wheel's still in spinAnd there's no tellin' whoThat it's namin'For the loser nowWill be later to winFor the times they are a-changin'.
— Bob Dylan
The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging. 
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
You sure about this writer thing son?
— Christopher Moore, Bloodsucking Fiends
That land is a community is the basic concept of ecology, but that land is to be loved and respected is an extension of ethics.
— Aldo Leopold
I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer.
— Robert Lynn Asprin
I have walked myself into my best thoughts and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it...but by sitting still, and the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill.
— Søren Kierkegaard
May be its a good idea to write something about you in my book... At least then, there will be a place where we will meet everyday... and be together forever!
— Anamika Mishra
The best part about being a writer is getting the last word.
— Shannon L. Alder
What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.
— William Saroyan
I'd love to be a writer one day
— Danielle Steel, Echoes
Black is beautiful .Black isn’t power. Knowledge is power. You can be black as a crow or white as snow but if you don’t know and you ain’t got no dough, you can’t go and that’s for sho’.
— Lewis H. Michaux
When I write I feel like I can breathe. It’s like yoga for the brain.
— Elise Stokes, Cassidy Jones and the Secret Formula
The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections of meanings and affections, that lend a visitor the illusion that something of the owner of this space lives on between these walls, even if the owner is no more.
— Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.
— Craig Johnson, Another Man's Moccasins
You are not your poetry. Your self-esteem shouldn't depend on whether you publish, or whether some editor or writer you admire thinks you're any good.
— Dorianne Laux, The Poet's Companion: A Guide To The Pleasures Of Writing Poetry
I write because I am a writer, not because I want to get anything out of it.
— H. Raven Rose
A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.
— Karl Kraus
For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
— Cao Yu
A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant.
— Margaret Atwood, In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination
Trying to erase, hide, discredit, degrade, and suppress a writer's work, merit, voice, and influence―is unconstitutional. Censorship only exists to protect corruption.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
I have voices in my headI'm a slave to imaginary peopleI feel what they feelI experience what they experience I live in their world And I'm devoted to translating their storiesI'm not crazy, I'm a writer
— Charisse Spiers
The best part of a writer's biography is not the record of his adventures but the story of his style. [Vogue, interview, 1969]
— Vladimir Nabokov
You do not learn how to write novels in a writing program. You learn how by leading an interesting life. Open yourself up to all experience. Let life pour through you the way light pours through leaves.
— Pat Conroy, My Losing Season: A Memoir
Naturally, this country can't stand truth.
— Lewis H. Michaux
A friend worth knowing tolerates your flaws while a friend worth keeping loves you in spite of them.
— K.E. Garvey
I haven’t had writer’s block. I think it’s because my process involves writing very badly.
— Jennifer Egan
The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
— D.H. Lawrence
Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.
— David Scheier
THE MANY FACES OF SURVIVALSunday, August 10th at 2:00 PSTDachau Liberator, medical whistle-blower, award winning writer, college professor and world renowned garlic farmer, Chester Aaron, talks about the hard choices he’s had to make, why he made them, and how it’s changed his life. Mr. Aaron was recognized by the National Endowment for the Arts, and received the Huntington Hartford Foundation fellowship which was chaired by Aldous Huxley and Tomas Mann. He also inspired Ralph Nader to expose the over-radiation of blacks in American hospitals. Now Mr. Aaron is a world-renowned garlic farmer who spends his days writing about the liberation of Dachau. He is 86 years old and he has a thousand stories to tell. Although he has published over 17 books, he is still writing more and looks forward to publishing again soon.
— Judy Gregerson
A professional man of letters, especially if he is much at war with unscrupulous enenemies, is naturally jealous of his privacy... so it was, I think, with Dryden.
— Walter Raleigh
A writer should show the silver in his hands neither as bronze nor as gold
—  the gist of the matter is to show silver as silver.
No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer.
— Mehmet Murat ildan, The Beggar's Prophecy
Miss, I'd gladly pay you to remove your clothes.
— David Scheier
Writer is always alone. But every author is a creator, and gods are lonely.
— Lara Biyuts, The Sunless Parlour
When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there.. whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time.
— Jennifer Weiner, Certain Girls
To make this world a whole lot brighter,when I grow up I'll be a writer.
— Lee Bennett Hopkins, Been to Yesterdays: Poems of a Life
What is so frightening about [writing]? I still don't know. Perhaps it's the horrible knowledge that no matter how well you write, the resultant product will never correlate exactly to the truth, will never arrive with quite the melodious voice you hear in the acoustic cavity of your mind.
— Brenda Miller
You came into my life like the rain to the parched desert!
— Avijeet Das
See my blog at crossedeyesanddottedtees.wordpress.com for more of my writing.
— Ellie Presner
I am a writer, I write what I feel and what like.
— Euginia Herlihy
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is. When I speak of writing, the image that comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or a literary tradition; it is the person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and, alone, turns inward. Amid his shadows, he builds a new world with words.
— Orhan Pamuk
I have battled with loneliness. I have battled with insecurity and rootlessness. But I have never given up the struggle. I have never quit trying in life.
— Avijeet Das
You have always wanted to be a writer. Getting the job at the magazine was only your first step toward literacy celebrity. You used to write what you believed to be urbane sketches infinitely superior to those appearing in the magazine every week. You sent them up to Fiction; they came back with polite notes. "Not quite right for us now, but thanks for letting us see this." You would try to interpret the notes: what about the word now-do they mean that you should submit this again, later? It wasn't the notes so much as the effort of writing that discouraged you.
— Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
For a few weeks you got up at six to compose short stories at the kitchen table with while Amanda slept in the other room. Then your night life started getting more interesting and complicated, and climbing out of bed became harder and harder. You were gathering experience for a novel. You went to parties with writers, cultivated a writerly persona. You wanted to be Dylan Thomas without the paunch. F. Scott Fitzgerald without the crack-up. You wanted to skip over the dull grind of actual creation.
— Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
I am as disillusioned with the number of likes for one's posts on social networking sites as I am with the number of followers in one's social network. A great number of people liking your work does not prove your mettle as a writer or as an artiste!If my work can affect even one person and make him/her think then I am satisfied as a writer.
— Avijeet Das
My normal friends loved having a token author. Just like every WoW raiding party needs at least one healer, every gaggle needs at least one artist. They enjoyed introducing me to people at bars. "This is Jessica. She's a writer." That's really code for "She's definitely fucking someone tonight. Hang around long enough, and that someone might be you.
— Jessica Wildfire, Professor Gone Wild
A life lived outside of one's giftedness is a complete and utter travesty. It deprives the world of the beauty we each bring to our respective space(s). It leaves us all less fulfilled and enlightened.
— Shirley Houston, Beauty, Poetry & Flow: Birthed in Travail
So I became the wanderer and wandering became my destiny!
— Avijeet Das
Charlotte Evans was used to feeling grungy. As a freelancer, she traveled on a shoestring, getting stories other writers did not, precisely because she wasn't fussy about how she lived. In the last twelve months, she had survived dust while writing about elephant keepers in Kenya, ice while writing about the spirit bear of British Columbia, and flies while writing about a family of nomads in India.
— Barbara Delinsky, Sweet Salt Air
There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.
— Charles Bukowski
A person whom works exclusively for money places a price tag on his or her soul. A person whom labors to attain fame seeks a false form of adulation. The writer ignores the lure of a glamorous life by seeking to penetrate the darkness of their own being and meditate the larger issues that frame existence. A seeker knowingly follows a path that is barren, bleak, desolate, and unproductive in terms of attaining recognition and exulted social and financial status.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
In the kitchen Anna was quietly plotting to get rid of him. A brief talk, then she would contact the publisher and ask for someone more suitable. When she bore her best china cautiously back into the room she found him on his feet, examining things. 'Here we are,' she said, speaking drily, trying to call him back to his place.'Who's this guy?' Dick asked, staring at a happy, rounded man having his photograph taken on a boat with a huge fish at his feet.'That is my Uncle Max,' Anna said impatiently. 'Here is your coffee.''Great. I need a cup. Strong and black.' Dick was feeling his reckless self coming out: so what is she thinks I'm a scruff? Push some buttons and see what the old cow's made of.Anna regretted that he must place his stained body upon her newly-cleaned velvet. She was grateful for having no sense of smell.'Tell me what you have written, Mr Michaels?' He noticed the challenge.'All sorts of rubbish,' he said unhelpfully, wishing to add the word 'rubbish', but showing admirable restraint. 'I write anything that's required.' As he spoke he noticed an unrealised pride in his humble craft. 'I turn things into readable English so people will be interested. You see, not everyone who has had an interesting life knows how to make it sound good; that's my job.' He could see her expression soften. Something simian amid the fine features? 'I make a great effort not to change the original intention, of course...''You call that a ghost, I think?''Yeah. The ghost brings people's lives to life.
— Steven Swift
Without the author there is nothing.
— Michael E. Bierman
A writer must always be the no.1 fan of their book,
— Aditi Dufare
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries—to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
— Ben Jonson
Write until it becomes as natural as breathing, write until not writing makes you anxious.
— Unknown
A person that doesn't read and doesn't have any ethics complaining about a writer feels like a Chihuahua barking at a Rottweiler.
— Robin Sacredfire
Poetry is and should not be explained It’s not a theory not a formula or a set patternIt’s a labyrinth of reflection with no source of image
— Yarro Rai
There is something so innocent about blank pagesThat I can't lie to them about my existence
— Yarro Rai
If you find a book you like on Amazon, please buy it somewhere else!
— Robin Sacredfire
I'm Freelance Journalist that covers political stories from around the world. I've been featured in CTV News and BBC.
— Steve Bunday
I am no writer. Her sparkling eyes made my fingers write words in the sand, Her radiant smile made my pen write words in the air. Her beautiful soul made my typewriter type poems for eternity. I am no writer.
— Avijeet Das
I am no writer. Her sparkling eyes made my fingers write words in the sand. Her radiant smile made my pen write words in the air. Her beautiful soul made my typewriter type poems for eternity. I am no writer.
— Avijeet Das
It's raining, raining words!
— Wyketha K. Parkman