Quotes About Acceptance

He had said, hesitatingly, "Because they think we are different. So they are frightened of us." But what was different? thought the girl. What was so different?

Being alone is best. I mean, it's true, isn't it? In the end you'll be absolutely alone; therefore, being alone is natural. If you accept that, nothing bad can happen. That's why I shut myself away in my six-mat one-room apartment.

No human beings, regardless of who they might be, want to look directly at their own shortcomings.

I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.

I let my soul be corrupted that day, although it would be years later before I accepted what I had done. I forgot who I was and what I should do and only thought about what I wanted and what I could do.

What happens to you doesn't belong to you, only half concerns you. It's not yours. Not yours only.

your best quality is also your worst. For herself, she identified her ability to adapt. "I've likely rolled with punches when I should have hit back,

You also have to work with the love you are given, with all of the complications clanging behind it like tin cans tied to a bridal sedan.

sometime when you like where you end up, you don't care how you got there.

when a woman shuts you out, picking the lock won't let you back in.

What's for you is for you. Extend your hand and claim your blessing.

I hope you will not interpret this as rejection, because that is not my intention. You are a part of our family and every one of us holds you in highest regard.

You're always welcome in my home," he had said. And so I decided to take him at his word.

There is no fair fight to be waged about the past.

I'm not being spiteful, I'm trying to figure out how to live with this new reality.

calming breaths even as water burned my eyes. There was comfort in the truth, no matter how difficult.

He could have, but he didn't. No sense worrying about things that didn't happen." I took her hand. "I'm not even worried about what did happen. This is a fresh day. A fresh start.

Roy raised my hand to his lips. "Sometimes when you like where you end up, you don't care how you got there.

but when a woman shuts you out, picking the lock won't let you back in.

Daddy said, "At some point you will come to accept your limitations." "Do you accept yours?" I asked, with challenge in my voice. "But of course, Ladybug. That's what marriage teaches you.

I could have pursued her. A paper clip could best the catch, but when a woman shuts you out, picking the lock won't let you back in.

When he hipped me to Go Tell It on the Mountain, he didn't say one word about Jimmy being a homosexual.

I needed her to say that it didn't make a difference, that I was myself, not my gnarled family tree.

I am not about to judge you. That's between you and Jesus.