Quotes About Acceptance

But still – that is our vocation: to convert the hostis into a hospes, the enemy into a guest and to create the free and fearless space where brotherhood and sisterhood can be formed and fully experienced.

While my friend always spoke about the sun, I kept speaking about the clouds, until one day I realized that it was the sun that allowed me to see the clouds.

The great spiritual task facing me is to so fully trust that I belong to God that I can be free in the world--free to speak even when my words are not received; free to act even when my actions are criticized, ridiculed, or considered useless.... I am convinced that I will truly be able to love the world when I fully believe that I am loved far beyond its boundaries.

Every mane should have a fair sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friend.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

It is never too late to give up your prejudices

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or bad.

Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone? We

It is hard to forget that which it is worse than useless to remember.

This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction.

Real power is measured by how much you can let things be.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors.

Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your intention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.

Whate'er we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

Lo que llamamos resignación no es más que una confirmación de la desesperación.

The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names.

Por mais mesquinha que seja sua vida, aceite-a e viva-a; não se esquive a ela nem a trate com termos duros. Ela não é tão ruim quanto você

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I