Quotes About Acceptance

The load was too heavy for her, but giving it to God and allowing Him to carry it for her seemed impossible. That would mean yielding her heart and accepting God's will. And she didn't know if she had the courage to do that.

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

I can't believe this is happening to me. The weirdest thing is it was just a dream, and now it's actually real. It's hard to believe sometimes.

I bet all I had on a thing called love; guess in the end it wasn't enough. And it's hard to watch you leave right now; I'm gonna have to learn to let you go somehow.

I guess it's going to have to hurt, I guess I'm going to have to cry, And let go of some things I've loved to get to the other side "I guess it's going to break me down, Like fallin when you try to fly, Sad but sometimes moving on with the rest of your life starts with goodbye

A fucked-up family's a fucked-up family, whether or not werewolves are involved.

We're werewolves. We don't get to judge 'crazy.

It's really important to share the idea that being different might feel like a problem at the time, but ultimately diversity is a strength.

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

Wherever you look there's meanness and corruption. This room, this bottle of grape wine, these fruits in the basket, are all products of profit and loss. A fellow can't live without giving his passive acceptance to meanness. Somebody wears his tail to a frazzle for every mouthful we eat and every stitch we wear—and nobody seems to know. Everybody is blind, dumb, and blunt-headed—stupid and mean.

That's how it is, he told himself. If you dread something enough, even your worst fears coming true brings comfort.

So you've stopped thinking you're going to die? Oh, I'm more certain of it than ever. But I've stopped being scared.

But hope stops time, and time only heals when its flow is not stopped.

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.

We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.

If the "educated Negro" could go off and be white he might be happy, but only a mulatto now and then can do this. The large majority of this class, then, must go through life denouncing white people because they are trying to run away from the blacks and decrying the blacks because they are not white.

So, in accepting the New Age teachings in the 1960s, had I somehow accepted the very religion that had frightened me so much as a child?

Christ's "Not my will but thine be done" brings Our Lady's "Be it done unto me according to thy word" to a culminating surrender.

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.

Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.

Remember where you are, Trooper," Chief Marshall reminded him. "This is Provincetown. Residents let their freak flag fly around here. If we investigated everyone's sexual predilections around town, Lord knows what else we'd find.

Terrible events produce outrage, and when people are outraged, they are all the more likely to accept rumors that justify their emotional states, and also to attribute those events to intentional action.

I think that every state in the union should recognize same-sex marriage.

Have you fallen in love with the wrong person yet?' Jace said, "Unfortunately, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains myself." ..."At least," she said, "you don't have to worry about rejection, Jace Wayland." "Not necessarily. I turn myself down occasionally, just to keep it interesting.