Quotes About Acceptance

There are certain bad habits we've groomed our whole life—from personality flaws to fashion faux pas. And it has been the role of parents and friends, outside of some minor tweaking, to reinforce the belief that we're okay just as we are. But it's not enough to just be yourself. You have to be your best self. And that's a tall order if you haven't found your best self yet. That's

What a privilege we have to tell the world how Christ has come to meet our most critical and foundational needs: identity, acceptance, security and significance.

Unconditional love and acceptance is one of the most basic needs of all humanity.

But when you know who you are in Christ, you no longer need to be threatened by people or compete with them, because you are already secure and loved.

As if aware of her desire and her hesitation, Clare remarked thoughtfully: "You know, 'Rene, I've often wondered why more colored girls, girls like you and Margaret Hammer and Esther Dawson and—oh, lots of others—never 'passed' over.

Clare Kendry cared nothing for the race. She only belonged

I think if I worked with the stuff they worked with, I, too, wouldn't make any long-range plans. Hell, I wouldn't even buy green bananas.

My own face-offs with death had made me see death differently. Death had become not a possibility, but a probability, so I made peace with that dark horseman, and that peace has stayed with me on my borrowed time.

the older you get, the more baggage you have to carry, and the less you're able to lift it.

Me, Mia. Mama mia, Mia. Otis is rigor mortis.

There are some things about oneself that it's not very nice to wake up to.

one has to make an effort at a time like that, and a clean break. It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

I was very depressed in those months, because it's not funny to lose both your feet when you're thirty years old.

You don't feel any different as you get older. Only, you can't do so much.

One grows old unknowingly. One accepts the passing of years as a phenomenon that has little bearing on one's personality. And then, quite suddenly, one comes to the realisation that one's contemporaries are growing a little old, falling off a little. One realises that one's hair is white.

For all the suffering that you've put me through I'd suffer more if I resented you—

Belief in yourself is more important than endless worries of what others think of you. Value yourself and others will value you. Validation is best that comes from within.

My poor fat Alfie! He was not a romantic husband, but he was so kind and understanding. He never minded whether I was amusing or dull. He thought it impossible that I could be dull. I didn't have to bother about any of that.

in spite of all her misgivings, she glowed and thought to herself. 'This is my place. This is where I belong.

It is not the fault of the mirror if it reflects our blemishes as clearly as our beauty.

Niall Ferguson

Salvo unas cuantas excepciones, la élite política británica, a diferencia de la élite intelectual mayoritariamente socialista, encontró muy difícil aceptar que el imperio tenía que desaparecer como precio a pagar por la victoria.

Guilt could be as simple as that. There didn't have to be anything maudlin or self-pitying about it. It was a fact and you lived with the consequences, a kind of contract under which your actions led to inevitable obligations.

When I look in the mirror, I know I'm looking at someone who isn't sure she deserves to be loved at all.