Quotes About Acceptance

Time partially reconciles us to anything.

Never judge someone by their relatives.

Once a heart breaks…it doesn't just grow back. It's not a lizard's tail. It's more like a huge stained glass that shattered into a million pieces, and it's not going back together. Least not the way it was. You can mush it all into one piece, but that doesn't make it a window. That makes it a pile of broken colored glass. Shattered hearts don't mend and they don't heal. They just don't work that way.

You are a sinner, a great, desperate sinner; now come, as the sinner that you are to God who loves you. He wants you as you are; he does not want anything from you, a sacrifice, a work; he wants you alone. " —LIFE TOGETHER

Grace releases people not only from sin but from shame.

In doing that, I also accept His free gift of eternal life, which is mine forevermore by Your grace. Thank You. In Jesus' name, Amen.

nothing to prove, nothing to lose.

This should serve as a warning to anyone who thinks that God will accept anything we choose to bring as long as we're sincere.

Any idea, no matter how bizarre, can seem mainstream if you're able to find a handful of others who will believe along with you.

Today most mathematicians accept the continuum hypothesis as true, though some study non-Cantorian transfinite numbers where the continuum hypothesis is taken to be false.)

friend of mine who was turned down

I passed through this stage years ago on Venus, where I was so unfashionable that eventually I almost convinced myself I no longer cared that nobody wanted me; but recent events have reawakened my need for intimacy.

To accept uploading, that, too, is wrong in her mind. She will not admit her identity is a variable, not a constant.

To find yourself trapped in a body with the wrong gender must be hard to bear: How much harsher to discover, at age thirty, that you're the wrong species?

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitaable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.

The secret is to have a quiet heart, and to celebrate each moment of life so as to have no fear of death.

Ho imparato a capire che né l'educazione né la cultura cambieranno mai il colore della mia pelle e che dovrò portarmi sempre dietro quello che nel mio paese è un marchio degradante. Se ci penso seriamente, non mi importa molto di questa vita. È l'animale dentro di me, non l'uomo, che vuole evitare la forca.

Several of the high schools consistently at the top of the rankings are selective enrollment schools, meaning that students must apply to get in, and only a small proportion of those students are accepted.

You go to war with the army you have—not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Let go, live your life, the grave has no sunny corners

Would that I could be a gay man. I would like myself better. But I am the most heterosexual of all my many acquaintances.

From here on, I will submit to great art. It will do with me as it sees fit. I will go where it tells me. I will let it in, let it tear me limb from limb, eradicate me, rebuild me in its own image. I will dwell in it as does a subject in a heavenly kingdom. I will never again attempt to own anything: no film, no person, no idea.

I struggle with my life because instead of just doing what needs to be done, I fight the underlying fear; I try to unlock the door. Paradoxically, the only way to unlock the door is to forget the door. Instead of obsessing about the locked door, we need to be going about our lives, which means cleaning up the house, taking care of the baby, going to work, whatever.

Living Zen is nothing special: life as it is. Zen is life itself, nothing added.