Quotes About Acceptance

like resigning ourselves to the abandonment of our youthful dreams and the deflation of our youthful hopes.

Richard, you know I love my family, but that's no reason why I should have to acknowledge them in broad daylight.

Be yourself. Always be yourself. If people can't penetrate unimportant surface issues, they're never going to appreciate your fundamental qualities anyway.

bird might think he deserves to swim as well as a fish, but if he sits moping on the riverbank instead of using the wings God gave him, the fox is going to eat him. "Your brother would rather have his own way than be happy. He's thrown away the grace he was given because it's not the grace he had in mind." The Truthspeaker paused to reflect on that. "There's not much hope for a person who won't live in the grace he's given." ***

grace, man—what you're given, not what you deserve.

We from every religion feel comfortable in Britain because there is a host. The Church of England is a good host, it has been a major force in shaping England into such a tolerant society.

The test of faith is whether I can make space for difference. Can I recognize God's image in someone who is not in my image [...]? If I cannot, then I have made God in my image instead of allowing him to remake me in his.

At three in the morning we finished by dancing together. We knew we were different, we knew that there were deep divides between our respective faiths, but we had become friends. Perhaps that is all we should seek. Friends do not have to agree in order to stay friends. And friendships can sometimes help heal the world.

Understanding – religious understanding – comes from the willingness to be challenged.

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

I wasn't pretty, but as my mother once said, prettiness wasn't my profession.

It was one of those moments when a great Don't Care wave hits you, and you float off on it, head back, looking at the sky.

Fifty years isn't too bad. With luck you might see it happen when you're a sweet, old granny, dandling big fat babies on your knee. Actually"—he held up a hand, interrupting Kitty's cry of protest—"no, that's wrong. My projection is incorrect." "Good." "You'll never be a sweet old granny. Let's say, 'sad, lonely old biddy' instead.

So stop worrying about the past. The past is for ghosts. We've all done things that we regret. It's what's ahead of us that counts.

Looks?" the skull said. "Who cares about that? It's superficial. Outward appearance doesn't interest me at all. Why do you think I hang around with you?" It chuckled. "Insult aside, that's just one way in which I'm superior to every one of you, except for Cubbins." I blinked. "What? Why? What's George got to do with anything?" "What a person looks like doesn't bother him much, or hadn't you noticed?

Penelope Fittes—" "Has got nothing whatsoever to do with it, as you well know. It was Lockwood who came knocking on your door, and that's why you considered the proposal, and let's face it, that's why you said yes.

It was one of those moments when a great Don't Care wave hits you, and you float off on it, head back, looking at the sky.

The girl was silent too, grim- faced, straight-backed. She did not try to hurry. There was no need. Nothing that had happened could be undone.

I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.

Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn't hear it in time.

I keep waiting for the universe to decide things for me, and the thing is, the universe has better things to do.

I want to explain everything to him, show him that it's really not as screwed up as it all sounds, but then I remember that it is.

Sometimes, contentment is a matter of will. You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it.

You learn not to think about what might have been, and to just appreciate what you have.