Quotes About Acceptance

Our hearts of stone become hearts of flesh when we learn where the outcast weeps.

As we come to grips with our own selfishness and stupidity, we make friends with the impostor and accept that we are impoverished and broken and realize that, if we were not, we would be God. The art of gentleness toward ourselves leads to being gentle with others -- and is a natural prerequisite for our presence to God in prayer.

It comes without concern for my neurotic need for acceptance. After all, I wasn't even aware it was happening. It has a life of its own. And it moves me deeply that, even inadvertently, I've participated in making someone's life a little bit better.

In Zen, resolving the great matter of life and death requires facing up to mortality. In order to truly live, we have to come to terms with the termination of life as we know it.

I am content that others should be wiser than I.

It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.

It occurred to me that I was unhappy. And it didn't feel so very terrible. No urgency, nothing. I could slip out of my life on a slow wave like this—it didn't matter. I don't have to be happy. All I have to do is hold on to something and wait.

I was born, and then I was quietly resentful of that fact for a few years...but then I went to a library and it was okay.

I deserve more, like a man who can tell me he loves me and accept that life includes pain without hiding from that.

Before bed each night, I reread my notes and studied the Bible, savoring its rich lessons. Right there in bold print, for anyone to read, was the message of love. God treasured all his children equally, regardless of gender. For the first time in my life, I was truly content simply being a person, not a wife, not a mother, not a woman. A person.

Als temperamenten verschillen, zei Papa, helpt liefde geen zier!

Een panter is anders dan een aap', zei Gerard, na een pauze, 'maar is een van de twee minder dan de ander? Dat vind je een idiote vraag, en je hebt gelijk. Blijf dat nou net zo idioot vinden, wanneer het mensen betreft. Anders zijn - dat is gewoon. Iedereen is anders dan een ander. Ik ben ook anders dan jij. Maar minder of meer zijn door de kleur van je gezicht of door wat je vader is - dat is nonsens.

Norocul e un lucru care apare în mai multe forme. Cone poate s? îl recunoasc?? TotuÈ™i aÈ™ lua un pic, în orice form? ar fi, È™i aÈ™ pl?ti cât mi s-ar cere. AÈ™ vrea s? v?d luminile lic?rind.

Let's drop the war.' 'It's very hard. There's no place to drop it.

Whether you come in first or last, you're still my horse!

Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.

Where is it written that if you don't like religion you are somehow disqualified from being a legitimate American? What was Mark Twain, a Russian?

As if any of us could bear to live in a world of unadulterated truth!

Things are as they are.

Not everything can go according to the plan.

We can never make sense of death,' I said. 'It doesn't obey any laws or follow any rules. Death is an intractable anarchist.

We're not allowed to learn to die,' Jansson said. 'What do you mean?' 'In the past death was a part of life. Now it's completely separate. I remember I was six years old when my grandmother died. Her body lay on a door in the parlour at home. There was nothing odd about that. Death was a natural part of our lives. Not any more. We no longer learn to die in this country.

Vi brukade prata så när vi var unga, Sten och jag. Om döden som något som man skulle hantera som en part i en duell. Även om utgången var given kunde man trötta ut döden så att den bara hade krafter nog att utdela ett sista hugg. Det var så vi bestämde att döden skulle bli för oss båda, nåt man skulle klara av så att det gick bra.

Growing older meant losing a little bit of energy every single day. And one day it would be completely gone.