Quotes About Acceptance

I've learned that sometimes I have to give up my right to know and simply believe that God's knowing is enough. Not that I don't want to question. Ach, I surely do. But in the three years since Benuel's death, I've learned that peace comes with that kind of givin' up . . . and, not to boast, but my faith has grown because of it, too.

The People expected too much of the little English boy from Philly. Yet Nick had come back to the very folk who had failed to believe in him.

A beau needs to love you for who you are, not who you're tryin' to be.

Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye

We have these cultural norms, and we allow people to say ugly things. We don't have to like it, we don't have to invite them to our dinner parties, but you should let them say it.

Bear shame and glory with an equal peace and an ever tranquil heart.

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

For certain is death for the born And certain is birth for the dead Therefore over the inevitable Thou shouldst not grieve.

For that which is born death is certain, and for the dead birth is certain. Therefore grieve not over that which is unavoidable.

Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life.

She finally accepted how inappropriate it was in India—how fatal—to cling.

I have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me.

Accept of things, having procured them by persuasion, not by force.

Now the man and his wife were both naked, but they felt no shame.

I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don't see much of a distinction beyond that.

Bitmezdi bu. Aynalarda ço?al?r gibi ço?al?yorum; yorgunlu?a, öfkeye, üst üste y???lan tersliklere vermeli bunu.

Bir olanaks?zl??a inanmak istemeyebilir ki?i, ama onu kabul etmek gerekince de içi parçalanmadan ya?am?n? sürdürebilir. Oysa Düzeltmenin yaln?zl???, yeryüzünde sönen her yüzeyle ac?la??yor, daha, daha daha ac?la??yorsa çok dü?ünüp çözümünü bulamad??? bir sorun kar??s?nda eli kolu ba?l? kalmas?ndan.

Bir olanaks?zl??a inanmak istemeyebilir ki?i, ama onu kabul etmek gerekince de içi parçalanmadan ya?am?n? sürdürebilir.

Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

The most important knowledge is understanding what you can't do.

In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . .

All America loses when any person is denied or forced out of a job because of sexual orientation. Being gay, the last time I thought about it, seemed to have nothing to do with the ability to read a balance book, fix a broken bone, or change a spark plug.

Mental illness is nothing to be ashamed of, but stigma and bias shame us all.