Quotes About Acceptance

The first time you meet Winston [Churchill] you see all his faults and the rest of your life you spend in discovering his virtues.

Everyone ought to bear patiently the results of his own conduct.

Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.

Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not; for of such is the kingdom of God.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

We're swallowed up only when we are willing for it to happen.

When I eventually met Mr. Right I had no idea that his first name was Always.

I feel bad that I don't feel worse.

Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.

This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good.

The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.

The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it's something you allow.

What must be, shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.

We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us, as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

Experience cold or heat, pleasure or pain. These experiences are fleeting; they come and go. Bear them patiently.

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.

Serene I fold my hands and wait.

Who loves me will love my dog also.

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what's going to happen next.

The demand is for certainty is a sign of weakness.

The unknown is what it is. And to be frightened of it is what sends everybody scurrying around chasing dreams, illusions, wars, peace, love, hate, all that.... Accept that it's unknown, and it's plain sailing.