Quotes About Acceptance

Ich versuchte, nicht schon wieder glücklich zu sein. Wer glücklich ist, hat etwas zu verlieren; und nur wer nichts zu verlieren hat, kann es mit dieser Welt aufnehmen.

Vrijheid betekent niet alleen doen wat je wilt, maar ook weten wat je doet, vrijheid betekent overtuigingen hebben en daarnaar handelen. Anders blijft alleen onwetendheid over, een toestand waarin we ons opwinden over onbelangrijke zaken en in alle gemoedsrust dingen accepteren die gruwelijk zijn.

I may not be perfect, but God knows I'm trying . . . and God knowing should count for something.

Judgment does not win others over. Kindness does.

Learn to be thankful in the midst of your unique "whatever" rather than trying to control something you were never meant to control in the first place. You see, God is more concerned with your attitude and your obedience in the role in which he has presently cast you than he is about giving you a starring role in life.

We must cease making odious and odorous comparisons and instead embrace our current lot in life—our past, present, and future—welcoming all that God will teach us through it. Only then we will discover the secret Paul knew—that true contentment isn't merely having what we want; it's wanting nothing more than what we already have.

Do you remember the summer of the rain... You must let everything fall that wants to fall.

We cannot choose, he thought, the people we're born into nor what they teach us. So that opposition exists, and appears to us as evil. It is part of life, and sorrow is its natural consequence.

So she fell into a black silence, she who had not been entitled to choose which home, which life. Who had gone out in a buggy a few times with a man of an age to be her father, ... agreed to marry. Who had accepted, not chosen. Because she was not a man.

She pulled the blanket tighter around her, as if to demonstrate her vulnerability. "Anything can happen," she said. "Haven't you realized that yet?

Home is where some know who you are ..From the poem 'The Children's Exodus

There's the parent you want and the parent you have.

Lisa's mama says all people are part of Christ's body, so some people have to be the armpits.

If you know something will eventually come to an end, you can handle it.

I know, but it reminds me that I have no control over life. Life doesn't care if you're a soldier or a seventh grader or an aquatic reptile. Things happen.

I've noticed that women often have a desire to change men, even the ones they love." "I've noticed that, too." Dougal frowned. "Which is odd, when you think about it. Because if you didn't like the way a man is, why would you attach yourself to him to begin with?

Perhaps the truth was there was no perfect marriage, just some really good ones.

It's sad, but life is not fair. I sometimes think it was never supposed to be. Life is made up of moments, good and bad. But while you don't get to pick all the moments, you do get to pick which ones you cling to.

And I know now that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. Even for me.

As long as you live, it is never too late to make amends. Take my advice, child. Don't waste your precious life with regrets and sorrow. Find a way to make right what was wrong, and then move on.

I have a hunger, for more than food. I have a hunger bigger than Joyce City. I want tongues to tie, and eyes to shine at me like they do at Mad Dog Craddock. Course they never will, not with my hands all scarred up, looking like the earth itself, all parched and rough and cracking, but if I played right enough, maybe they would see past my hands. Maybe they could feel at ease with me again, and maybe then, I could feel at east with myself.

By the summer I turned nine Daddy had given up about having a boy. He tried making me do.

Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.