Quotes About Acceptance

I do not see that it is necessary for any people to prove to another that they build cathedrals or pyramids before they can be entitled to peace and safety.

That we may accept a limitation on our actions but never, under no circumstances, must we accept restriction on our thinking.

We shall live. We pray for life, children, a good harvest, and happiness. You will have what is good for you and I will have what is good for me. Let the kite perch and let the eagle perch too. If one says no to the other, let his wing break.

We may accept limitations on our actions but never . . . on our thinking.

Did not our elders tell us that as soon as we shake hands with a leper he will want an embrace?

Stillness is a reflection of our growing openness to the unpredictable unfolding of the world as it is, a freedom from the constant effort to bend things to our liking, to make them conform to our conditioned notions of good and bad.

I dont want to die Then you shouldnt have been born

SILVANA, I SAID: "You're in a pickle." "Yeah, I know, but I've gotten used to living in brine.

sometimes you just have to bury the dead and move on.

You can repair anything but dead. You can't fix that. So you bury the dead an move on.

Don't judge me. I mean that. You have a great husband and two sweet kids—" "They're sixteen and thirteen. They stopped being sweet years ago

More important, that second question assumes that gender is all about sex, or that sexual preference is at the core of our gender. I can't speak for other transsexuals, but there is no way on God's green earth I would

When you have multiple personalities, you never drink alone.

I want that person you knew to return. But the truth is, this may be the best we achieve. Today, having her here and comfortable and not agitated…that may be as good as we get. Are you okay with that?

And God has this funny way of stretching and changing and pushing us toward things we don't want to face. I don't think the past is something we deal with as much as it deals with us.

The past is like grace. It's not enough to know about it. We all know what happened back there. Grace allows you to see yourself in light of the past, not in the shadow of it. You see the truth about yourself, your need. On

I accept you and love you and always will.

Old age teaches you in a very unkind way that things won't necessarily get better. Not in this life. In fact, you can pretty much count on things degenerating. Being content is not a lack of ambition. It's being able to rest and relax and know that your worth doesn't come from what others think of you or even what you think of you.

You cannot plan for love. You cannot choose against it once it has come.

There had been a connection long ago, but that had been severed. Something in me wanted to hold on, to roll back the clock and never let him go, but I had made my choice, as he had, and we had to live with our choices.

Don't question the purpose of things; just sing along.

You had to see what you had instead of what you didn't have. Start from where you are, not from where you want to be.

There're some things that can't be helped. They just are. You either live with them or you don't. Simple as that. There's nothing simple about it. You got that right. You certainly got that right.

wanted all my questions answered and everything wrapped and tied with a bow. But life is not neat bows and nice packages. Life is messy and you don't get all your questions answered.