Quotes About Acceptance

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.

Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

Always say "yes" to the present moment. What could be more futile, more insane, than to create inner resistance to what already is? what could be more insane than to oppose life itself, which is now and always now? Surrender to what is. Say "yes" to life — and see how life suddenly starts working for you rather than against you.

What are you trying to protect heterosexual marriages from? There isn't a limited amount of love in Iowa. It isn't a non-renewable resource. If Amy and Barbara or Mike and Steve love each other, it doesn't mean that John and Mary can't.

I accept people for who they are and love them. That doesn't mean I have to agree or that I have to turn my back on the tenets of my faith and reject the tenets of my faith when it comes to homosexuality.

Mind you do your dying right! Most of us only get one chance at it.

surprises seldom grow more welcome as one gets older.

But The Preacher operated on the theory that if you told a big enough lie often enough, people would accept it as the truth.

The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

Worldly love (licentiousness) seeks to endorse or embrace everything. It begins from the false dichotomy that we either accept without question people's beliefs and behavior (unless it is obviously destructive to someone else) or we are unloving. As a result, we cannot address underlying sin or rebellion. Thus, love is set as opposite to judgment.

Americans now believe that having equal rights in a political system also means that each person's opinion about anything must be accepted as equal to anyone else's.

Just because you love the mountains doesn't mean the mountains love you.

Life turns on a dime. have no idea what tomorrow will bring... sure life would be a lot easier if we knew what was going to happen. You've got to live by faith one day at a time.

I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.

I want to live till I die. No more, no less.

They're not women's clothes. They're my clothes. I bought them.

I imagine that one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, that they will be forced to deal with pain." David

writing this book, I wanted to understand more fully how Baldwin navigated his disappointments, how he lived his refusal to chase windmills any longer, and how he maintained his faith that all of us, even those who saw themselves as white, could still be better. I needed to understand how he harnessed his rage and lived his faith.

We have to find and rest in a community of love.

by black people who they believe don't belong in their space.

Don't Hate me. Don't Love me. Just be my friend.

Love means you are completely helpless and there's nothing you can do about it except duck or plunge. But you can't change it, you can't change the way you feel.