Quotes About Acceptance

what we are prepared to accept in the way of the technology of eating is often determined more by cultural forces than function.

Girls eat better when food stops being something forbidden.

For people with eating disorders, food is both a poison and the remedy, but this is true for the rest of us as well. Food is an inescapable fact of life and the task for each of us is to find a way to make out peace with it.

When we have heartily repented of a wrong, we should let all the waves of forgetfulness roll over it, and go forward unburdened to meet the future.

What if the leaves were to fall a-weeping, and say, "It will be so painful for us to be pulled from our stalks, when autumn comes?" Foolish fear! Summer goes, and autumn succeeds. The glory of death is upon the leaves; and the gentlest breeze that blows takes them softly and silently from the bough, and they float slowly down, like fiery sparks, upon the moss.

Families are the best place to learn and practice mutual tolerance and acceptance.

most of the people need not be expect a sympathy but they want to accept their empathy ----- gentle

To the young ones she would say bravely that her husband did not love her (how piquant an unloved wife, if she is beautiful), but that she could never, never hurt him.

In one story, he describes a man who is blind in one eye, myopic in the other, too poor to buy eyeglasses, who wears only the frames, with no lenses. When asked why he replies: "It's better than nothing." As

She wore no make-up, and her small, tense face looked chronically embarrassed, as if it got attached by mistake to the wrong person.

A man couldn't jump higher than himself, she pointed out to me. And he couldn't help it if he was a "zoodnik"; one so annoying, he made you itch.

Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.

You know that life is a cycle, don't you, my sweetheart?' she said. 'All things are born, and all things die. Other people are afraid of that, but you must never be. If you accept it, life will always be beautiful for you, even when it is sorrowful.

I want you, Rosa,' Antonio said, turning to her. 'I want you with your scars and your suffering. You are my wife and everything that has happened to you only makes you more precious to me.

All my life precious people had come and gone and I was learning not to cling to anyone anymore. p273

The process begins with the individual woman's acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.

I want there to be a place in the world where people can engage in one another's differences in a way that is redemptive, full of hope and possibility. Not this "In order to love you, I must make you something else". That's what domination is all about, that in order to be close to you, I must possess you, remake and recast you.

We need laws that protect everyone. Men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion... ah, persuasion.

But sometimes, it's harder to admit to ourselves we want love in our lives than it is to keep living without it.

If the choice is to take what you're offering or to walk away, I choose this. I choose you. I choose whatever you're willing to share with me. Even though I'm never going to stop wanting more from you than just awesome sex. Even though I'm always going to want to change you're mind.

She'd hidden from the truth of how bad it was because it had seemed so much more painful to deal with the truth.

Because real love doesn't have anything to do with perfection. Real love is what happens when everything isn't perfect…and you love each other anyway.

But now I can see that perfect simply means learning how to forgive and to accept and to do everything you can to love with your whole heart.

I love that you wanted to try. But after we've done everything we can, we have to accept things the way they are and make the most of what we have.