"Acceptance is the word we must substitute for……" — Maureen Howard
"Acceptance is the word we must substitute for dependence in dealing with the aged. Their acceptance of help, ours of their need."
—
Maureen Howard
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
14 Quotes by Maureen Howard
Maureen Howard has 14 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
I like density, not volume. I like to leave something to the imagination. The reader must fit the pieces together,…
-
It was unavoidable, my writing. I feel I had no choice in the matter, no more than I had about…
-
The Golden Arches of McDonald's rise, glorious across the landscape, contempo-monolithic, simple in concept as Stonehenge if we could but…
-
I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my…
-
There's a bad odor about a man who's been betrayed.
-
The Catholic Church with its foreshortened American history and tangled puritanical roots was as inviolate to my mother and father…
-
When I go home my mother and I play a cannibal game; we eat each other over the years, tender…
-
If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a…
-
To say a thing simply: I am my history, but the story of my life is always guarded, self-conscious. It…
-
Wouldn't a laugh serve us better than to battle it out with our mortal souls?
-
None of the adults I knew ever touched in public, much less kneaded each others flesh.
-
Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our…
See all 14 quotes by Maureen Howard »
More Acceptance Quotes
This quote is filed under Acceptance Quotes,
one of 2,150 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
-
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
-
Confine yourself to the present.
— Marcus Aurelius
-
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
-
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
-
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
-
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
-
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
— Melody Beattie
-
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
— Simone de Beauvoir
-
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
— Josh Billings
-
I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
-
It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
— H. P. Blavatsky
See all 2,150 Acceptance Quotes »