Quotes About Acceptance

One day our descendants will think it incredible that we paid so much attention to things like the amount of melanin in our skin or the shape of our eyes or our gender instead of the unique identities of each of us as complex human beings.

Yes, I'm shallow, I don't mind admitting it. Perhaps I should admit that there's no end to the depths of my shallowness.

He's harmless, poor thing. That's what everyone said. It was true, but who cares? Lots of people are harmless, but that doesn't mean I have to like them.

I've confessed to everything and I'd liked to be hanged. Now, if you please.

Eldric wore his lazy lion's smile. He didn't mind what he was called. He was a sticks-and-stones sort of person.

The Blue Rose's Precepts went like this: Accept your sorrows, If you cannot change them Embrace your joys, So you don't estrange them.

When you stop time, you don't accept your sorrows. When you stop time, you want everything to be the way it was before.

We would much rather blame nature for what we don't like in ourselves than credit it for what we do like.

De la partie la plus noire de mon âme, à travers la zone hachurée me monte ce désir d'être tout à coup blanc. Je ne veux pas être reconnu comme Noir, mais comme Blanc. Or [...] qui peut la faire, sinon la Blanche? En m'aimant, elle me prouve que je suis digne d'un amour blanc.

When people like me, they like me "in spite of my color." When they dislike me; they point out that it isn't because of my color. Either way, I am locked in to the infernal circle.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate... but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.

Just because I'm a wren doesn't mean I can't preach an eagle message. Of course I can. Is that a lack of integrity if I preach something bigger than I can even feel, if I preach a message that I haven't even grown to? That's not a lack of integrity. That's accepting the call. That's what it is because there's too much at stake to do otherwise.

I stopped predicting the future a long time ago.

It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God.

You know, I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving.

Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong with the fearful, the true mixed in with the façade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.

I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.