Quotes About Acceptance

What brings us anywhere? You take one turn instead of another, you meet one woman instead of another, you have good health or you don't, luck vies with misfortune, you break down and arrive at Bellevue in your bathrobe on a Saturday morning or - what was his father's antique phrase - you pulled up your socks and got on with things. Your heart adapted to changing times. Your body did. Or it did not and you passed your days in a muffler of regret. And that was what they called intelligent design.

A way of life that is odd or even erratic but interferes with no rights or interests of others is not to be condemned because it is different.

Peter's dad, Joe, had prepared his son to know that a certain amount of hazing is the price of admission for acceptance, not rejection. The trading of wit-covered put-downs is boys and men training each other to handle criticism, unconsciously knowing that the ability to handle criticism is a prerequisite for success.

Don't take life seriously because you can't come out of it alive.

Your greatest strength is knowing what you cannot do.

If they offer something better, I will gladly learn. Francis David, no. 566

It's not my responsibility to be beautiful. I'm not alive for that purpose. My existence is not about how desirable you find me.

There is no situation in life but has its advantages and pleasures—provided we will but take a joke as we find it

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal, every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open, this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

He who is able to accept everything gladly from the Lord - including darkness, dryness, flatness - and completely disregard self is he who lives for Him." -

No matter how much you hate or how much you suffer, you can't bring the dead back to life

the hardest lies to live with are the ones we tell ourselves. And when we actually start to believe them... well, at that point, there's no hope.

I can't do any more than I can do, and if people don't like it that's no fault of mine.

The fact that you are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is fine,'' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.

Arguing is really saying, "If you were really more like me, then I could like you better.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.

Everything is perfect in the universe -- even your desire to improve it.

There is no one that God does not love with all that he is. His love reaches beyond every sin and failure, hoping that at some moment they will come to know just how loved they are.

You can't earn points with someone who is no longer keeping score. Jesus already filled up your card with maximum points. You don't have to earn what he has already freely given; you simply get to receive it.

The key to living a productive Christian life is not waking up every day trying to be loved by God, but waking up in the awareness that you are already his beloved

The purpose of grace is to grant us access into his presence every day. Grace qualifies us for the relationship we could never earn on our merits.

Busyness is not the goal of a conscientious believer; fruitfulness is. Not every request that comes my way is God's will for me to accept. Good opportunities are not necessarily godly ones. Expectations pushed on us by others are not the directions Jesus invites us to follow.