Quotes About Acceptance

And isn't that the moral of the story anyhow? You can't judge a person by their language or their place of origin—though it seems that each new generation insists upon learning that lesson for itself.

It is not your fault. Sometimes all the love in the world can't protect a person against his fate.

You can't always change other people's minds. But you can change whether or not you listen to them, can't you?

But if we want to defeat darkness, we must find our own way to the light. We have to follow our hearts and accept the danger. I

Sì, sono ebrea», dichiara. «ma sono anche cattolica.» Dopo una breve pausa aggiunge: «E anche musulmana». «Mamie, cosa vuoi dire?» domando, tentando di impedire alla mia voce di tremare. «Non sei musulmana.» «Non è la stessa cosa? È l'umanità a creare le differenze. Ma questo non significa che non sia sempre lo stesso Dio.»

Voglio dire che l'amore è tutt'intorno a noi», afferma lui. «Ma più diventiamo vecchi, più lo troviamo sconcertante. Più sono le volte in cui siamo rimasti feriti e più ci risulta difficile riconoscerlo, accoglierlo nei nostri cuori e crederci davvero. E se non riusciamo ad accogliere l'amore, non possiamo mai provarlo davvero.»

nation is beaten only when it has accepted that it is beaten.

You do not have to love everything about a place to carry it in your heart.

A nation is beaten only when it has accepted that it is beaten.

I am a big believer that in life, things happen the way they are supposed to.

You're not Jewish." "No, I'm Catholic. And in the end, Catholicism isn't really so different. Believing in God is at the core of our faith, just like yours,

Some chapters must be finished, though, some books closed.

you can't rewrite the past. But you can choose to live with your whole heart in the here and now.

She hadn't realized that once one opened the door to one's heart, it was impossible to fully close it again.

Yona shook her head. "He sees me as more than I am, I think." "No. He sees you for exactly who you are. And that is very difficult for him.

It's not the life I planned, but somehow, it's the life I was intended to have. And now, finally, I'm ready to embrace it.

Maybe in the end you can't run from who you are without destroying your life.

I mean that love is all around us," Alain says. "But the older we get, the more confusing it becomes. The more times we've been hurt, the harder it is to see love right in front of us, or to accept love into our hearts and truly believe in it. And if you cannot accept love, you can never really feel it.

I knew on some level that he was right, but my anger toward my dad was like a badge of honor, something that united my mom and me. Letting it go would be like losing a piece of who I was.

Life doesn't work out the way we plan, but maybe it works out the way it's supposed to after all. You know?

being Jewish is something to be proud of, not something to be ashamed of." "Then why do my classmates mock me?" Charlotte could see him flinch, but he answered calmly. "Because they are ignorant. And cruelty is the weapon of the ignorant.

Hope, you were born to do this," he says with his mouth full, and although I know it's a compliment, the words hit me hard, because I never intended to do this at all. It wasn't the life I wanted for myself, and Matt knows it. But my grandmother got sick, my mother died, and I no longer had a choice.

can't always change other people's minds. But you can change whether or not you listen to them, can't you?

The natural order of things is immutable. Seed, flower, fruit, decline, death, decay. Seed. Each stage has its own drama and its own particular beauty. If you can see it, you can accept it. The parts are graceful, and so is the whole.