Quotes About Acceptance

Very few of us lack superficial faults and we must rely on each other's kindness to overlook them.

Until a day came when he said, Marie, you know how we've been waiting for the big pain to come? I think it's here. I think this is it. I think it's been here all along.

Why cry over dried flowers? They're meant to be straw. Why cry over miniature roses? They're meant to be small.

Everybody's someone else's nigger I know you are so am I I wasn't born with enough middle fingers I don't need to chose a side

All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.

I don't mind living in a man's world, as long as I can be a woman in it.

There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. ... If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace.

There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding.

This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognised for what it is... So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.

Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable - which, I haste to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live.

To think that only faultless people are worthwhile seems like an incredible exclusion of almost everything of deep value in the human saga. Sometimes I can't believe the narrowness that has been attributed to God in terms of what he would approve and disapprove.

The best things that happen I'd never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather.

It is better to have nothing, for at last even our bones will fall. It is better to have nothing.

When we accept dismissive judgments of our community we stop having generous hope for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests.

You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding.

You must forgive in order to understand.

You never bother me, Glory. It's remarkable how much you don't bother me. Almost unprecedented.

Doll always said, Just be quiet. Whatever it is, just wait for it to be over. Everything ends sometime.

Love is holy because it is like grace—the worthiness of its object is never really what matters. — Marilynne Robinson, Gilead (Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Reprint edition, November 15, 2004) Originally published October 28, 2004.

The world don't want you as long as there is any life in you at all.

Some dogs bite. So you keep them away from people. You can't just get rid of them, for being the way they are. And now and then you can be glad to have them around, to snarl the way a good dog never does.

There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding...If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is a posture of grace.

It seemed to her there was a peacefulness about him that came with resignation, with the extinction of that last hope, like a perfect humility undistracted by the possible, the unrealized, the yet to be determined.

Every single one of us is a little civilization built on the ruins of any number of preceding civilizations, but with our own variant notions of what is beautiful and what is acceptable—which, I hasten to add, we generally do not satisfy and by which we struggle to live.