Quotes About Acceptance

Today, I will try to remember to regret the past. I will think of how many mistakes I have made throughout my life. I will say to myself, 'If only I could go back in time and make different choices, so that my life could be the way it should have been.' Then I will remind myself that I cannot.

So she made no secret about being gay?" "Why should she?" the little old lady asked. "Nobody would care but a bunch of stuffy old men.

She stood a little straighter, closed her eyes, and raised her arms in embrace of her final act. The she took a deep breath and dove, headfirst--face-first--into oblivion

For as much as I hate the cemetery, I've been grateful it's here, too. I miss my wife. It's easier to miss her at a cemetery, where she's never been anything but dead, than to miss her in all the places where she was alive.

In general there should be gay characters in YA because a) surprise, there are gay folks everywhere and b) in my opinion as a father, there's not a damn thing wrong with my child encountering gay folks in her literature, because see point a).

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

There are times when it's easier to fool yourself than swallow some jagged piece of reality.

I learned to love the little things about him, because of all the big things I could not love. No one could. It would be wrong to.

The words of Peter then became the new mantra for the Christian movement: "Truly I perceive that God shows no partiality, but in every nation anyone who fears God and does what is right is acceptable to him" (10:34–35).

Lawrence Meredith

What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.

I prepare for death by living.

Healing, for Jung, comes with the embrace of our shadow, the acceptance of our evil. Evil too is part of God, Jung suggested, because it too is a part of Being.

A sign of emotional health and maturity is being able to accept ourselves as fallible human beings, while continuing to do our best to avoid mistakes. If we own our mistakes when they happen, we can make amends and learn from them. When dealt with appropriately, our mistakes and failures often do lead to positive outcomes. At the very least, they provide a valuable correction to fanciful beliefs that we are infallible or have sufficient resources in ourselves to beat any obstacle.

Finally Lucinda grew used to her silence, and began not only to accept it, but treasure it. She too grew quiet. For the first time she heard the music of her heart.

Leave me now as one leaves a corpse...with regret, and memories, but without a second look.

My thoughts were gentle, not so long ago. I no longer have that luxury.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The Main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"

I realized that, like it or not, this odd group of people constituted my family, and I had things I should be doing so I could feel more worthy of them.

Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seem good to themselves than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

It also appears to me that when prejudices persist obstinately, it is the fault of nobody so much as of those who make a point of proclaiming them insuperable, as an excuse to themselves for never joining in an attempt to remove them. Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable if those who do not share it themselves truckle to it, and flatter it, and accept it as a law of nature.

Why then should tolerance, as far as the public sentiment is concerned, extend only to tastes and modes of life which extort acquiescence by the multitude of their adherents?