Quotes About Acceptance

Sport is one area where no participant is worried about another's race, religion or wealth: and where the only concern is 'Have you come to play?'

I was a stranger, and ye took me in.

So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.

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

I really don't deserve this, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

Remember, if God had wanted this to be perfect, he never would have had me up here.

Let's face it, some days you're the pigeon and some days you're the statue.

Don't move! I want to forget you just the way you are.

Oh my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

Put aside the need to know some future design and simply leave your life open to what is needed of it by the Divine forces.

See how time makes all grief decay.

If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.

Let the past drift away with the water.

Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad.

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

The past in retrospect holds manifold disenchantments, failures and even tragedies; and yet the worse may be forgotten and the best held fast.

Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, esson, or delight that moment has to

Happy the man, and happy he alone He can call today his own. He who, secure within can say, "Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today."

Do not look back on happiness, or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.